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The New Early Learner: Designing for a Future We Can’t Yet Imagine

Today’s young learners will enter a rapidly changing world, making curiosity, creativity, resilience, and adaptability just as important as the curriculum they encounter. Principal and K-12 Education Leader Vanessa Schutte, AIA, ALEP, explores how purpose-built early learning environments can foster these lifelong skills by supporting inquiry, exploration, movement, and play-based learning from the very start.

Discover in K-12 Dive how DLR Group’s design retools early learning environments as an engine for lifelong success.

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The Architect’s Newspaper

DLR Group–designed mass timber student housing project nears completion

INTRO Columbus topped out as the tallest mass timber student housing project in the U.S.

View across the MAAD masterplan in Makkah, showing a dense mixed-use urban district with landscaped public spaces and the Makkah Royal Clock Tower beyond.

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DLR Group on Translating Urban Density into Intimate Neighborhoods

DLR Group shares strategies for walkable, climate-responsive, culturally rooted design amid rapid Middle East urban growth.

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Lab Design News

Building Tomorrow's Lab Design Leaders

Chris Ertl shares how mentorship and leadership development are shaping the next generation of lab design leaders.

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Healthcare Construction + Operations News

Mitzi D’Amico Joins DLR Group's Columbus Office

Healthcare leader Mitzi D’Amico joins DLR Group as principal and senior project manager to advance healthcare design in Ohio.

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American School & University

$170 million Gulf Shores High School opens in Alabama

DLR Group redefines learning at Gulf Shores High School with innovative spaces built for student success.

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School Construction News

New Arthur A. Richards PreK-8 School Opens on St. Croix

The first new school facility built in the U.S. Virgin Islands in three decades celebrates its ribbon cutting.

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Construction Week Middle East

DLR Group on Integrating Hospitality Design Principles into Modern Workspaces

What can workplace design learn from hospitality design?

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BUILDINGS

Lessons from Emergency Operations Centers with DLR Group’s Mallory Cusenbery

Mallory Cusenbery, AIA, explains how emergency operations centers sustain resilience and continuity in crises.

interior of a modern school community space with built in nooks for children to read and sit

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EdSource

Inside modern California classrooms: nooks, couches and ‘cozy cubes’ for kids to self-regulate

School design is prioritizing student wellbeing with calming nooks and cozy cubes to help students self-regulate, reduce stress, and stay engaged.

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