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The power of design shapes environments that celebrate people at work: inspiring lifestyles of limitless thinking, growth, and wellbeing.

  • Cochlear

Weaving a Multi-sensory Experience

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Seating in front of potted plants right of reception desk with raised letters reading Hear Now. And Always. Wood slat ceiling
Wood slat ceiling over hallway, mezzanine with floor to ceiling windows and seating to left. Wall, right, with circle details
Mixed seating with tables in room with floor to ceiling windows with open garage style door, right. Coffee counter to left
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Explore Our Work

Hines T3 Partnership building in Minneapolis, a mass timber midrise building illuminated at night
  • Hines T3 Partnership

Modern Loft Office: Timber, Transit, Technology

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workplace lounge with piano and fishing net art installation, garage doors open to mountain views at sunset
  • Google, LLC

A Design Focused on Community, Creativity and Collaboration

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Conga Headquarters seating area with garage door windows on right wall. Couch at front left in front of fireplace
  • Conga Headquarters

An Active Workplace for Curious Explorers

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Vista Portfolio Company building interior. Seating areas in front of multiple screens across upper level at the top of stairs
  • Vista Portfolio Companies

Unique Cultures Thrive in Creative Workplaces

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Boeing Partnership site aerial view. White building with rounded edge at front surrounded by planes and parking lots
  • Boeing Partnership

Sparking Innovation Across a Diverse Portfolio

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Brookridge Office Development, 2 glass facade buildings separated by a central walkway and stairs behind Brookridge sign
  • Brookridge Office Development

High-Performance Office Anchors Community Destination

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Three round buildings with rounded angular sloping roofs in a flat valley buildings reflected in a small body of water
  • Google Bay View

Knitting Beauty, Innovation, and Sustainability

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Awards

Honors+Recognitions

Photo by Marjorie Becker

Accidentally Wes Anderson

Sustainability + Experience Design

Fast Company Innovation by Design Names DLR Group for Three Awards

September 15, 2022

We have been named a finalist in the Sustainable category of Fast Company's 11th annual Innovation by Design Awards for its Verified Materials Transparency tool, as well as an Honorable Mention in the Impact Category. In addition, the firm’s work on the exhibition “Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain” earned an Honorable Mention in the Experience Design category.

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Firm News + Press + Ideas

The Future of Workplace

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 

The future of the workplace is no longer ahead of us – it's here, and we’ve upped the ante to deliver one-of-a-kind workplace designs.

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Clean lab space with warm wood, natural light and rectangular rod lights above each table

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Life Science and Adaptive Reuse

The life sciences industry has been growing steady for over a decade; our expert analyzes how the demand for space led us to retrofit conversions.

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Data Center Design for Today and Tomorrow

Operating 24/7 in today's ever-growing digital world requires data center infrastructure design that adapts to tomorrow's rapid rate of data processing and storage.

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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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burgundy upholstered chair in front of colorful geometric painting and purple slat with white text installation on white walls

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Celebrating Pride Through the Lens of a Community Resource

Serving the North Texas community since 1986, the organization advances community health through education, research, prevention, and personalized integrated HIV care.

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Office interior with SpaceShift flexible wall to the back, greenery, and large windows

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Designing the Future of the Workplace

How can we create spaces that best serve today's employees? We worked on SpaceShift to meet client needs: creating spatial separation quickly and easily.

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proposed design for T3 mass timber framed class a office building with residential units

firm news

DLR Group to Design First T3 Building with Residential Space in Austin

This is the first Class-A timber project with a residential component for Hines and the capital city of Texas.

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team collaborating with multiple screens, technology, and tiered seating in white conference room

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The Reconnected Workplace: Resilient Office 2.0

We've taken on the challenge of imagining what the future workplace might look like at three scales: the building, the office, and the workstation.

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Close up view of a white Indoor Air Quality monitor with a healthy reading. Viewing option buttons on either side of screen

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Our LinkedIn Experiment Helped Employees Improve the Air they Breathe at Home

DLR Group and LinkedIn’s Workplace Team conducted a home indoor air quality experiment, and the outcomes encouraged the teams to reevaluate the way we work from home.

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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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  • ESRI Campus Expansion

Ecology Shapes a Net-Zero Ready Tech Office

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ESRI Campus front courtyard expansion. Angled overhanging balconies on a glass building with bridge over courtyard garden

RTG Medical Headquarters, a 3 story building with floor to ceiling windows and brown wrap facade accent. Silver RTG sign
  • RTG Medical Headquarters

The Power of Putting People First

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Parker Hannifin European Headquarters, a glass building with white wrapped facade illuminated from within at night
  • Parker Hannifin European Headquarters

Elegant Minimalism Through Precision Detailing

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Carlson Capital New York office white reception desk with gold accent in wood room. Partition, left, with organic cutouts
  • Carlson Capital New York

Artistic Elegance Honors History and Future

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Connect With Our Team

Jeremy Reding

Global Workplace Leader Senior Principal

Jeremy Reding

AIA, LEED AP
Global Workplace Leader Senior Principal
Jeremy leads the firm’s Workplace sector. He serves as a lead designer for many of the DLR Group’s global technology clients, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Microsoft. Jeremy leads studios in all DLR Group locations to deliver workplaces that work for public and private sector clients.

Art Bloodworth

Workplace Design Leader Principal

Art Bloodworth

RID
Workplace Design Leader Principal
Art leads design for the Workplace sector. He believes technology and wellness have a large influence on the way environments are shaped today. He's fascinated by the effects of wellness on the built environment and how design impacts productivity and the way people feel about their working environment.

Jesse Duker

National Business Development Leader Principal

Jesse Duker

National Business Development Leader Principal
Jesse is the National Business Development Leader for the Workplace sector. As a deep believer in DLR Group’s employee-ownership culture, he brings a keen eye to detail when working with clients to craft design solutions which meet their individual goals on each project.

Gretchen Wahab

National Workplace Strategist Principal

Gretchen Wahab

NCIDQ, LEED AP
National Workplace Strategist Principal
Gretchen leads clients through collaborative engagements to help define high-performance, human-centric workplace environment. Through workshops, surveys, and cultural exploration activities, she captures authentic input that directly informs customized planning strategies and workplace design concepts.

Chris Ertl

Global Science+Technology Leader Principal

Chris Ertl

AIA, LEED AP
Global Science+Technology Leader Principal
Chris leads DLR Group’s Science+Technology studio to deliver healthcare lab solutions; research and teaching labs on academic campuses; and biotech, pharmaceutical, and other corporate facilities. He ensures lab designs are adaptable for future users/programs, and are safe and healthy for occupants.
Jonathan Mesik

Jonathan Mesik

National Mission Critical Leader Principal
Jonathan Mesik

Jonathan Mesik

PE
National Mission Critical Leader Principal
Jonathan leads integrated teams to design and deliver mission critical facilities in which operations is essential to be maintained for clients throughout the country. He ensures our designs are flexible, maintainable, and optimized with redundancy for resilient systems that maximize uptime.

B. Sanborn

Design Research Leader Principal

B. Sanborn

Design Research Leader Principal
As Design Research Leader, B. collaborates with researchers in design technology, human-environment relations, and data analytics to generate actionable data. They support integrated design teams in developing goals based on relevant, applicable research, and leverages validated tools to assess project outcomes.
Jessie Johnson

Jessie Johnson

Workplace Leader Principal
Jessie Johnson

Jessie Johnson

AIA, LEED AP
Workplace Leader Principal
Jessie has worked as designer, project architect, and project manager for diverse clients, developing a particular expertise in renovations and tenant improvements for workplace clientele. Her architectural process is founded on a passion for communication and teamwork integrating all disciplines.

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