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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.

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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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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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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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Ho’okipa Cottage Renovation rendering of exterior sheltered patio in lawn off of single story building
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Beyond the Building: Advocating for Equity in Justice Design

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Exterior corner view of DLR Group's BDNY 2022 convention booth with textural living wall and green drapes around seating area
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Setting the Stage for BDNY and Beyond: Designing a Better Reality

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five individuals huddled around a white table with architecture drawings on table, designers collaborating
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Emerging Professionals: It All Comes Down to Core Values

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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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In Our Communities

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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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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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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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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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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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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Designing 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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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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Double height white cement block lab with exposed ducts above lab equipment. View, left, through windows to green space
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10 Ways to Address Energy Use in Science+Technology Facilities

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woman walking past interactive screen showing air quality in the workplace with wood panel wall and large window opposite
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Selecting Indoor Air Quality Monitors to Maintain Healthy Spaces

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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

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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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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Personal Development Grants + Research

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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$15,000 Awarded to Personal Development Grant Recipients

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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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Wood panel wall sections with large spaces between planks and sections, light shining through in room with raw floor
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Visualizing and Celebrating Building Systems

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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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Three men pointing at a photo on white gallery wall in Seattle
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Outside In: Collaborative Community Design

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Mass Timber in Focus

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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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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mass timber floor plate looking toward floor to ceiling windows
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Mass Timber: Inherent Beauty and Potential

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looking at the first mass timber T3 building in the US with warm exterior facade
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What You Need to Know Now About Mass Timber Design

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Press

In the Media

Indoor performance stage opens up to outdoor event lawn via large, retractable door

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Lighting & Sound America Highlights the Arts in Joplin, Missouri

The publication explores the Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex, an adaptable space opening up new artistic possibilities for the community.

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Learning By Design Shares Campus Planning Leadership Transition

Learning By Design shares exciting news regarding leadership transition for DLR Group’s Campus Planning team.

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Vaida Buchrotaite

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Leading the Way

Associate Vaida Buchrotaite shares her career journey, mentors, and successes in Commercial Interior Design magazine

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Abha Mixed-Use development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Multistory buildings around central green courtyard

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Building a Destination from Scratch

Commercial Interior Design explores the Abha Mixed-Use development, a unique retail and hospitality destination for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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John Wooden Club at Mackey Arena, standing height round tables in room with Purdue P logo on wall

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Revealing the Renderings: Purdue University Basketball Facility

Sports Business Journal shares the renderings for the $6.7 million renovation set to reimagine the game day experience.

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A midrise building with a blackened steel façade and timber infill with an arched timber canopy on a glassed-in rooftop

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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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Woman using VR headset reaches out in room with geometric triangular patterned curtains in warm cool tone gradient. Organically shaped vases

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DLR Group Talks the Future of Hospitality with Metropolis

Ed Wilms and Valentina Castellon discuss where the industry is headed on Metropolis magazine's new DesignTV series, "The Leading Edge."

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Rounded walkway to spiraling building with tan walls and white spiraling walkway to top

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Forbes Details DLR Group's Master Plan for 2027 World Expo

If the design is selected, this will be the first World Expo in the U.S. since the 1980s.

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Design Middle East: 2023 Architects Powerlist

Henrique Dias and Kirby Zalameda were profiled in the leading design magazine's list of influential designers.

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woman walks up wooden stairs surrounded by raw concrete walls. Black and white mural, front of a forest. Angled railing

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Case Studies of Integrated Design with designboom

CEO Steven McKay highlights the benefits and successes of our integrated design model with a selection of actualized projects for designboom.

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