
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.
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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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Mass Timber

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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
The world has reached a crucial tipping point around carbon emissions. Could timber construction be the answer 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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Materiality and Hospitality: Researching Mass Timber Design 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.
Awards
Honors + Recognitions



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2023 IMPACT Award
The Cornell Arts + Entertainment Complex was recently recognized by Missouri Main Street Connection Inc. through the Main Street America™ movement with the IMPACT Award.

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2023 AIA Ohio Design Awards Program
Slippery Rock University – Miller Auditorium: Honorable Mention Award for Additions, Renovations, Restorations.

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2023 AIA Ohio Design Awards Program
The AIA Ohio Design Awards Program seeks to focus attention on quality design, high performance design and AIA’s Framework for Design Excellence.


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2023 Innovation by Design Award
Our Semillas y Raices mixed-use design concept was honored by Fast Company as a Finalist in the Social Justice category of the Innovation by Design Awards.


