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Unlocking the Potential of Mass Timber: 5 Lessons from T3 Projects

Upon completion of our sixth T3 office building, explore what we’ve learned from designing nearly three million SF of mass timber.

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Black steel exterior midrise mass timber building

Mass Timber in Focus

A mass timber midrise hotel with a blackened steel façade and timber infill with an arched timber canopy on a glassed-in rooftop, timber hotel, mass timber interiors, innovations in wood construction
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Mass Timber Innovation: The Hospitality Prototype

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Heavy timber ceiling, beams, and columns with a gray sofa and dark wood entertainment center
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Materiality and Hospitality: Researching Mass Timber Design for Hotels

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Interior view with curved glass wall, left. Right, a seating area with tables under wood ceiling with exposed beams and ducts
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The Benefits of Being Connected to Nature through Intentional Design

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Recommended Reads

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DLR Group's First Female Employee

DLR Group was shaped by our founders and those they hired who were committed to fairness, opportunity, and ownership. Barbara Gaughan, the firm's first full-time female employee, shares how that transpired over her 40-year career.

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The Evolution of Student-Athlete Spaces​

Athletic directors navigate the ever-changing landscape of college sports with advice from Sports Design Leader Gregory Garlock.

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Hospital corridor with angled desk with multiple monitors in front of abstract blue and green mural. Glass partitions beyond

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Hospital Design from the Nurse’s Perspective

What if a few simple changes could make a nurse’s job easier, more efficient, and at the same time improve the level of care a patient received? Healthcare organizations are rethinking how they deliver patient care, and it's saving money too.

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A Lasting Housing Impact: Gen-Z Redefines Multifamily Living

A new generation has moved into the multifamily and student housing space, and brought unique preferences for how to live.

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Top 7 Women’s Student-Athlete Facilities

To mark the 50th anniversary of Title IX, we’re highlighting projects that develop the whole student-athlete with a focus on competition and training, nutrition and wellbeing, and academic support.

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Inquiry and Wonder Supported Through the Built Environment

Flexible, adaptable learning environments are important in supporting inquiry-based learning. Our BOLD™ process helps educators build future-ready spaces.

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Design Focused: Leading the Conversation on CTE

As leaders in career and technical education design, we constantly look for opportunities to advance the conversation. In fall 2023, we brought together some of the most influential voices in career and technical education for the Association for Learning Environments’ CTE Symposium.

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Reinventing the Academic Library

Our designs are transforming academic libraries into future-facing environments focused on generating knowledge versus storing it.

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Seeing and Valuing the Patient as a Customer

Modern patients have increased agency in navigating the healthcare system. Christina DeAmicis talks about what the "patient as a customer" means for design.

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Designing for Equity: A Guide to GIS Principles

Interested in design for equity? Learn five principles that unlock GIS’ potential, and questions to ask your designer or planner.

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In Our Communities

Person in white jacket and blue jeans standing in front of a mash up of an old building facade and a fence with green and white graffiti
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Reviving Harlem’s Disappearing Queer Spaces

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Outdoor shopping mall renovated into walkable mixed-use space with shopping, dining, community seating areas, and green space
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Crafting the Heart of the Contemporary Community

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Designing for Equity: A Guide to GIS Principles

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Woman standing in Arte Noir Gallery interior in Seattle, movable white wall panels hang art in room with floor to ceiling windows, black ceiling
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Arte Noir: A Home to Honor the Black Creative Community

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Choose Your Own Climate Adventure: Nine World-Changing Concepts from COP28

Find a world-changing idea from COP28 to spark your climate action, curated by our Chief Climate Officer and COP delegate.

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Curved hallway with floor to ceiling windows and wood panel ceiling. Round white recessed ceiling detail with hanging globe

Designing a Sustainable Future

green toned abstract clear models of building with scale trees in front of window, view of high rises
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Carbon 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Carbon and Climate Change

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architectural model with clear acrylic floorplates, solar panels, greenery and wood details, and 3D printed cores
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Carbon 201: Nine Tactics for Total Carbon Reduction

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two people looking at a white board pinned on a wall filled with evenly spaced paper and fabric swatches in purple colorways
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Materials Transparency in Use: Addressing Gaps

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an open ceiling with black orthogonal framing system that contains lighting pendants, pipes, metallic and red and blue tubes
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Data Center Design for Today and Tomorrow

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Balcony overlooking walkway in courtyard. Stone steps and planters surrounded by buildings with red overhanging canopies
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Designing for a Disaster: Resiliency in a Changing Climate

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Own Your Design Career

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From Intern to Executive: Career Pathways for Black Designers

Our Global Leader of Equity, Diversity, and Belonging reflects on Black History Month’s theme and Black designers’ career journeys.

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Emerging Professional Experience: How Can I Intern at DLR Group?

Students often have questions about what it's like to join DLR Group as an intern. Here are some answers.

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Emerging Professionals: It All Comes Down to Core Values

The 2022 cohort of interns and new graduates tell us, in their words, how their work aligned with DLR Group’s core values.

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Emerging Professionals as a Priority

Prioritizing emerging professionals’ experience is a key part of workforce development.

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The Evolution of a Brand: AC Hotels

In partnership with Marriott, we have collaborated on the AC Hotel brand's evolution and designing 30 properties across the country.

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Overall view of lobby and lounge featuring layered artwork, millwork detailing, and dark stone with white stone and furniture

Integrated Design

A pair of brick façade buildings, built in 1890, once a warehouse is now AC Hotel Grand Rapids Downtown, a hotel in a bustling downtown
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Adaptive Reuse: Converting Vacant Buildings into Thriving Spaces

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DLR Group designed buildings in a stylized poster series
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Bringing Project Stories to Iconic Graphic Status

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blue tinted wall graphic of cambodian forest with glass display case in the foreground with queueing ropes and tour signs
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Integrating Technologies to Bring History to Life: A Krishna Story

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Featured Collab

A gray skyscraper with arched windows, columned rotunda, gold cupola, and spire flying a flag on top against a clear blue sky
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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Cleveland: Our Highlights

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dark green wall with molding details behind a lamp made from stack of books, framed art print vintage metronome and cast bust
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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Colorado: Our Highlights

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1876 Landmark Building Victorian architecture in America with arched windows and sculpted stone moldings and block facade
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In the Details: Women's History at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

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Press

In the Media

Judy Hoskens

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The Resilience Lab with Rex Miller: Redefining Education Spaces

Principal and Senior Planner Judy Hoskens, AIA, Fellow-A4LE, was a participant in Rex Millers Resilience Lab Roundtable, hosted by Imagine a Place Productions. Judy joined a group of thought leaders in education design to discuss how the built environment is shaping the educational experience for students and educators from early education all the way up to higher education.

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Vaida Buchrotaite

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Commercial Interior Design

Insights into Design Leadership

A conversation with Vaida Buchrotaite of DLR Group Middle East on innovation, strategy, and interior design excellence.

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Aerial view of the campus plan built into a hill with rounded central courtyard lined with canopies, midrise buildings to left

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Construction Week Middle East

The Economic Impact of Mixed-Use Developments on Local Communities

Soctt Pryde speaks to Construction Week Middle East online about the significant economic impact of mixed-use developments on local communities.

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Modern office space filled with multiple seating areas, wooden furnishings, and a wall of windows to the back of the room

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Design Middle East

Explore the New Dubai Office

Design Middle East explores our newly designed Dubai office space, made to foster collaboration and creativity, featuring open workspaces, cutting-edge technology, and sustainable materials.

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Nighttime rendering of a retail space showing large stores surrounding a water fountain

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Design Middle East

An In-Depth Look at Lifestyle Retail in the Middle East Region

Principal and Middle East Design Director Scott Pryde speaks to Design Middle East about lifestyle retail and the design philosophy behind it.

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Rendering of a multi-story college featuring architectural lines accented with wood

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Florida Polytechnic University

Gary C. Wendt Engineering Building Reaches New Heights at Florida Polytechnic University

Florida Polytechnic University hosted “topping out” ceremony at the building site, with DLR Group, workers, and guests signing the structure’s final purple steel beam before it was fastened into place atop the building.

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Rendering of Madinah, KSA showing high rise buildings amongst green trees

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Geographical Magazine

Knowledge Economic City: A High-Tech Hub Shaping Madinah, KSA

Discussing smart cities’ leverage of AI, IoT, and green tech to create sustainable, efficient urban spaces, Geographical Magazine highlights Saudi Arabia's Knowledge Economic City.

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Front view of full stadium labeled Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with Olympic Rings logo on central tower framed by archways

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9NEWS

LA Coliseum to Host Olympic Events in 2028

As the world turns its attention to the 2028 Olympic Games, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will once again be on full display. The National Historic Landmark was renovated in 2019 in preparation for the upcoming Games.

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Yahoo Life

The Crawford Hotel at Denver’s Union Station Unveils Major Renovation

In partnership with Sage Studio, we're unveiling a guestroom refresh to The Crawford Hotel at Denver’s Union Station in celebration of its 10th anniversary.

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Lab Design News

Lab Design News Profiles Science+Technology New Hire Dominick Roveto

Lab Design News features Principal and Science+Technology Leader Dominick Roveto, AIA, LEED AP in a professional profile. He works in the higher education, workplace, and healthcare sectors to create technically complex spaces that inspire scientists and researchers.

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