Rick Carr
Rick Carr, one of Cundall’s five founding partners, has died at the age of 78.
Alongside Michael Burch, Geoffrey Cundall, David Gandy and Bernard Johnston, he founded the practice in Newcastle in 1976.
In a tribute, the company said Carr played an instrumental role in the practice’s global growth, establishing its London office with Laurie Clark in 1981 and developing relationships with key clients, architects and project managers in its early days.
A popular figure in the industry, Carr helped Cundall win a wave of high-profile projects, including the West Ferry Printworks. He was also instrumental in helping to deliver the Millennium Dome project.
Remembering his close colleague and mentor, partner David Dryden, said: ‘It was this ability to find a way to make everyone he met want to work with this unassuming Geordie lad, and his amazing capacity to retain names, faces and relationships, allied with a well-concealed drive to succeed that set him apart.’
