
Mass Timber is Taking Wood Design to New Heights
In recent years, timber skyscrapers have been continually touted as one of architecture’s most exciting frontiers. But how does timber really measure up? First, wood is a renewable resource that is less energy-intensive to extract than concrete and steel. Second, wood requires reduced energy to process raw logs into engineered wood. And third, emissions that are naturally absorbed into trees through photosynthesis continues in the building’s engineered wood fibers. So, if built right, architecture can serve as a carbon sink for as long as it stands.

T3 office building, Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Ema Peter.
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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
The world has reached a crucial tipping point around carbon emissions. Could timber construction be the answer 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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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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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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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.
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