Interior lounge space with comfortable seating in hotel. Exposed wood, floor to ceiling windows with views of natural. Stone fire place.

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2023 Responsible Disruptors Award

Our Mass Timber Innovation: The Hospitality Prototype has been named by Metropolis as one of three Responsible Disruptors in its second annual awards program. The other two winners are Quebec-based firm Architecturama and the Civic Data Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The program honors projects that use innovation as a force for good.

Metropolis

The Responsible Disruptors program honors architecture and design projects that utilize technology to make change for the better, disrupting the norm ethically.

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The Real Deal

DLR Group Partners with Texas A&M on Academic Center

DLR Group is partnering with Hines for the first mass timber academic building at Texas A&M. The Aplin Center will be an immersive learning laboratory for new university programs in hospitality and retail studies.

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Mass Timber Innovation: The Hospitality Prototype

Our timber hotel prototype dispels sound, structure, and safety myths, showcasing mass timber interiors and timber construction as a viable option for the hospitality industry.

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Biophilia and Mass Timber at Swarthmore College

Our partnership with Swarthmore College for the Dining and Community Commons Project focuses on equitable community and ambitious sustainability goals.

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Goose Island to be Home to Chicago’s First Mass Timber Office Building

The firm is continuing our partnership with Hines to build the first mass timber office building in Chicago.

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Growing Mass Timber Design

Wood couldn't be a better candidate for mitigating climate change when used as a superstructure in large-scale projects.

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Metropolis Magazine Names DLR Group a Responsible Disruptor

Our work on mass timber for hotels was honored for its representation of positive change and healthy innovation in architecture and design.

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Material Hospitality: Researching Mass Timber for Hotels

Rising demand for travel means fresh design opportunities to open conversations about lowering the carbon impact of new hotels.

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Mass Timber's Next Chapter

DLR Group Principal Steve Cavanaugh, AIA, delivers growing evidence on the sustainability, wellness, and aesthetic benefits of mass timber design.

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DLR Group and Hines Continue to Grow Mass Timber Design in Denver

Construction commences on the six-story, 225,000-SF building in the city’s River North neighborhood

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Timber: What’s Old is New Again

Many of us are familiar with wood as a decorative and finishing material, but wood is making its way back – quite literally – to the core of our buildings.