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Mass Timber: Inherent Beauty and Potential

Mass timber buildings are a celebration of exposed structure, and an opportunity to update the charm of the warehouse aesthetic.

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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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A Future for Mass Timber in Hospitality

Our mass-timber hospitality prototype qualifies the firm as a responsible disruptor by Metropolis Magazine.

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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.

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A well known symbol of Portland, the Portlandia sculpture required special considerations during our reconstruction of the Portland Building.

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Outdoor Learning: Enhancing Student and Educator Well-Being

Student and staff well-being is deeply rooted in how we design learning environments. As educators seek to engage students in new ways, learning outdoors provides many benefits and opportunities for powerful learning experiences.

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A Workplace Evolution: From Office to Destination 

The future of the workplace is no longer ahead of us – it's here, and we’ve upped the ante to deliver one-of-a-kind workplace designs.

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Designing for Health: Social Sports & Leisure Entertainment

An insurgence of retail mixed-use spaces dedicated to providing sports-oriented concepts engage people with their communities.

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Q&A with Metropolis Climate Toolkit Interior Designers

Interiors account for up to 50% of a building’s embodied carbon. Designers share “a-ha moments” from Metropolis Climate Toolkit for Interior Design workshops.

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Carbon 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Carbon and Climate Change

If we want to understand why carbon matters for climate change, it helps to understand the lingo. Here’s a simple breakdown so you can chime in on the conversation.

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When the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center’s conditions began disrupting performances, our team stepped in to design a solution.

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