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4 | Cottee Parker Architects CPA has been building on their expertise for more than 25 years. Matthew Caswell, a Director of the company, has been with the company for 20 years of that time, and has seen the company grow to operate through- out Queensland, Victoria,and northernNew South Wales. “When the company started, it was a sin- gle office in Brisbane run by the two found- ing partners,” says Matthew. “They mostly focused on housing and small commercial projects, with a small number of staff. By the time I joined in 1984, they’d grown to twelve staff, and from there we moved into retail and larger developer-led work.” ‘Design that Works’ is the catch-cry at CPA – and according to Matthew, it’s some- thing that drive their design approach. “We believe quite strongly in that phrase,” he says. “We follow the idea that our design has to work on multiple levels all emanating from the identified objectives of the client. After all, the client comes to us because they want to develop to make money. Helping them to do that is priority number one.” “The design also needs to work archi- tecturally,” he continues. “It needs to work aesthetically, it needs to work as part of the DISTINCTIVE EXPERIENCE