Leighton Carr gained professional qualifications from Bristol University, The Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, and Oxford School of Architecture, and has worked for a number of large multidisciplinary and international design practices in London, Bristol, and Frankfurt.

After six years with a major national contractor, and two years with a high profile fitting-out company in London, Leighton formed his own architecture and interior design practice to work on projects that offered greater opportunities for adding value through design.

The practice has completed projects in industrial and commercial sectors, in residential, leisure and retail sectors, in areas as far afield as Liverpool, Ipswich, Coventry and London, as well as in Bristol.

The practice is built around offering creative and often radical design-led solutions in response to a brief and producing elegant and appropriate buildings for its clients.