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A Future for Mass Timber in Hospitality

We have been recognized as one of three Responsible Disruptors in Metropolis Magazine’s second-annual Responsible Disruptors program for the Mass Timber Innovation: The Hospitality Prototype.

The Hospitality Prototype's greatest accomplishment may be that it enables us to see the future of design in this industry.

Widely known for our mass timber workplace expertise, we’ve expanded our vision for the material to create positive change, or disruption, that encourages healthy innovation in architecture and design. Our mass timber hotel prototype addresses a new use for mass timber in design that enables the built environment to imagine new opportunities in hospitality for mass timber. The prototype strives to increase the adoption of mass timber, a sustainable construction material, by proving that it is affordable, appealing, and accessible and disproving its common misconceptions.

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The Real Deal

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

Our timber hotel prototype dispels sound, structure, and safety myths, showcasing mass timber interiors and timber construction as a viable option 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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Material Hospitality: Researching Mass Timber 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.

Aerial view of the 9th and High construction site showing the third floor of mass timber beams and columns installed above the podium level.

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Informed Infrastructure

It’s Tall, But That’s Not All: 158 Feet of Mass Timber

Mass timber, moving fast: 9th and High, a 158-foot student housing tower in Columbus, climbs two floors every two weeks.

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Sports Venue Business

DLR Group Unveils Design for Camping World Stadium

Camping World Stadium redesign creates a new iconic destination for the city of Orlando.

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Transforming a legacy building into a digital future

West Texas A&M transforms a 1928 building into an immersive learning hub, blending heritage, technology, and access.

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Fast Company

These 5 pillars helped our company thrive for 60 years

DLR Group reached its 60th year in business in April 2026 – discover the five pillars that contribute to our resilience.

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Smithsonian magazine

DLR Group’s Tom Gallagher speaks to Gaudi’s legacy and most influential projects

Honoring Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí a century after his death, Tom Gallagher reflects on how Gaudí’s Barcelona works and ideas continue to shape architecture today.

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Gunter Hotel Unveils Redesign by DLR Group

San Antonio's historic Gunter Hotel, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel by Marriott has unveiled its $57 million renovation.

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Lab Design News

How Early Collaboration Shapes High-Performance Research Facilities

Featured in Lab Design News, Vanderbilt’s Stevenson Center 6 fosters collaboration and transparency, blending data and insight to create connected spaces in a LEED Gold facility.

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Making the Museum

“Liminal Space Research” on Making the Museum Podcast

In this episode, DLR Group's Dan Clevenger, Monika Smith, and Helen Ho explore liminal spaces in museums showing how transitional areas shape emotion, deepen engagement, and user experience.