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Ideas

Every project and client solution starts with a spark of an idea. Read what we’re saying and how we engage our teams in design thinking and problem solving.

Connecting the World: The Power of Universal Design

Front doors of a federal building, showing classical design with stone arches and steps leading up to the doors
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The Past to Present: Accessibility and Universal Design

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Educator and students reading on flexible comfortable yellow stools at white table with house shaped frame, bright graphic mural
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Adaptive Reuse Through Collaboration And Community

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Integrated Design

Semillas y Raices mixed use housing development entrance with shops on 1st level, apartments above on either side of walkway
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Semillas y Raices: The Future of Farming Communities

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

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Office common space with grey armchairs and orange tables. 2 wood booths with bench seating at center enclosed front, back, above
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A Workplace Evolution: From Office to Destination 

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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

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shaded pedestrian seating and walkways at the foot of a building development with palm trees and living ground cover
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A Lasting Housing Impact: Gen-Z Redefines Multifamily Living

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Designing the Future

Aerial view of the tents and campsite at a migrant camp in reynosa mexico
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Facing Immigration and Awareness at the U.S. – Mexico Border

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students working on an engineering project on the left with additional students collaborating at a long wood table on the right. Orange chairs, grey carpet.
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Reimagining the Possible to Diversify Engineering

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James L. Capps Middle School exterior with angled black shelter brick building. Orange wrap facade over double height glass
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The Unique Impacts of COVID-19 on Black Students

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Aerial view of group working at wood conference table with grey chairs on red floral rug. White paper and tablet in use
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Emerging Professional Experience: How Can I Intern at DLR Group?

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Female student sketching a diagram at a wooden table, mentorship program to introduce students to AEC industry
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Celebrate Engineering: Encourage, Innovate, Collaborate, and Contribute

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Reviving Harlem’s Disappearing Queer Spaces

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illustration by Mika Rane showing mermaids constructing an enclosed transparent curvaceous structure with a crane underwater.
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A Book to Inspire the Next Generation of Designers

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In Our Communities

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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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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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DLR team members master planning k-12 educational facility using whiteboard, post-it notes, collaboration
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Educational Facilities Planning through an Equity Lens

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Educator and students reading on flexible comfortable yellow stools at white table with house shaped frame, bright graphic mural
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Adaptive Reuse Through Collaboration And Community

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A Sustainable Future

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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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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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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Mass Timber in Focus

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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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Walking up on a path to the new building characterized by warm woods, tall windows, and a curved roof at Swarthmore College Dining and Community Commons.
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Biophilia and Mass Timber at Swarthmore College

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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Cleveland: Our Highlights

Tour some of our projects in Cleveland through the lens of our friends at Accidentally Wes Anderson.

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A gray skyscraper with arched windows, columned rotunda, gold cupola, and spire flying a flag on top against a clear blue sky

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

Glass building windows with brown beams and railings with picnic tables surrounded by nature

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Space4Learning

Spaces4Learning focuses in on Catawba College renovations

Spaces4Learning features renovations done at Catawba College’s Center for the Environment, with insight from Soraya Saffouri.

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interior lobby with double height floor to ceiling glass store fronts and custom wood ceiling over a mezzanine

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Arch Daily

Arch Daily celebrates the design of SAFE Credit Union PAC

Arch Daily has highlighted the design work behind the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Complex.

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Modern building with a cone shaped tower surrounded by landscaping

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Travel+Leisure

Two Projects Featured in 2024 Top 50 Destinations List

Travel + Leisure magazine highlights the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Karamu House in the 2024 Top 50 Best Places to Travel list.

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Red and green lights illuminating in a blue control panel displaying numerous switches and lights

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Consulting Specifying Engineer

Designing Mission Critical Power Systems

Electrical Engineering Leader Radames Cocco shares technical insights for reliable mission critical power systems in hospitals and data centers.

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Design Nerds Anonymous Podcast

Design Nerds Anonymous: Igniting Purpose at Work

Global Interiors Leader Audrey Koehn and Designer Lennis Serrano explore purpose and passion in the workplace on the Design Nerds Anonymous podcast.

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Ceiling of the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York City showcasing intricate design and painting

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Hyperallergenic

Hyperallergic Highlights St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Tour

DLR Group hosted a tour of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church as a part of Open House New York. Hyperallergic shares more on this exciting moment.

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people working at a light wood table in a room with dark blue walls and ceilings, dark blue carpet and light wood chandeliers

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Work Design Magazine

Workplace Evolution: Creating Commute-Worthy Destinations

DLR Group’s Jeremy Reding defines what matters to employees when considering their return on commute.

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Marta Johns

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Trib Live

Greer Cabaret Theater Changes Scenery for Reopening Performance

The Trib Live highlights Greer Cabaret Theater’s reopening with "tick, tick…BOOM!" after a $6M renovation enhancing guest experiences. Get the details from the Trib Live.

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high blue ceilings and grey geometric print carpet with suspended cloud and orange bird elements, bright orange accent wall, mural with brightly colored flowers

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Education Market Association Essentials

Welcome to our Neighborhood: North Kansas City Schools Early Education Center

DLR Group Principal and Design Leader Ian Kilpatrick, AIA, NCARB, dives into how an early education center in Missouri is impacting its students, its community, and early learners around the country.

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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Centennial Transformation project will feature new, renovated, and reorganized exhibit spaces

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Cleveland.com

Cleveland.com celebrates opening of museum’s Visitor’s Hall

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History recently unveiled their renovated Visitor’s Hall, café, gift shop and more.

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