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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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A New Level of Design Excellence in Student-Athlete Development

In the ever-evolving landscape of collegiate athletics, how can institutions enhance recruitment and retention, foster athletic excellence, and support student-athletes' overall performance and wellbeing? Our experts reveal their insights.

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Palo Alto Public Safety Building canopied entrance to multi story light stone building, floor to ceiling windows on second floor, wrapped facade

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The Tide Pool: Designing Emergency Operations Centers

Designing an effective EOC requires a flexible, resilient design that accommodates the needs of multiple agencies and ensures first-responder well-being during crises.

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Hospital corridor with angled desk with multiple monitors in front of abstract blue and green mural. Glass partitions beyond

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Hospital Design from the Nurse’s Perspective

What if a few simple changes could make a nurse’s job easier, more efficient, and at the same time improve the level of care a patient received? Healthcare organizations are rethinking how they deliver patient care, and it's saving money too.

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The Evolution of Student-Athlete Spaces​

Athletic directors navigate the ever-changing landscape of college sports with advice from Sports Design Leader Gregory Garlock.

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A Lasting Housing Impact: Gen-Z Redefines Multifamily Living

A new generation has moved into the multifamily and student housing space, and brought unique preferences for how to live.

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Inquiry and Wonder Supported Through the Built Environment

Flexible, adaptable learning environments are important in supporting inquiry-based learning. Our BOLD™ process helps educators build future-ready spaces.

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Design Focused: Leading the Conversation on CTE

As leaders in career and technical education design, we constantly look for opportunities to advance the conversation. In fall 2023, we brought together some of the most influential voices in career and technical education for the Association for Learning Environments’ CTE Symposium.

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Seeing and Valuing the Patient as a Customer

Modern patients have increased agency in navigating the healthcare system. Christina DeAmicis talks about what the "patient as a customer" means for design.

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Unlocking the Potential of Mass Timber: 5 Lessons from T3 Projects

Upon completion of our sixth T3 office building, explore what we’ve learned from designing nearly three million SF of mass timber.

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Mass Timber in Focus

A mass timber midrise hotel with a blackened steel façade and timber infill with an arched timber canopy on a glassed-in rooftop, timber hotel, mass timber interiors, innovations in wood construction
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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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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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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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Designing for Equity: A Guide to GIS Principles

Interested in design for equity? Learn five principles that unlock GIS’ potential, and questions to ask your designer or planner.

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In Our Communities

Person in white jacket and blue jeans standing in front of a mash up of an old building facade and a fence with green and white graffiti
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Reviving Harlem’s Disappearing Queer Spaces

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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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Woman standing in Arte Noir Gallery interior in Seattle, movable white wall panels hang art in room with floor to ceiling windows, black ceiling in an art gallery
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Arte Noir: A Home to Honor the Black Creative Community

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Educator and students reading on flexible comfortable yellow stools at white table with house shaped frame, bright graphic mural
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Adaptive Reuse Through Collaboration And Community

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Climate Literacy: Gamifying Sustainable Design

VALUES gamifies climate-responsive design by helping people of all backgrounds prioritize environmental, economic, and communal impacts.

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Designing a Sustainable Future

green toned abstract clear models of building with scale trees in front of window, view of high rises
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Carbon 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Carbon and Climate Change

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architectural model with clear acrylic floorplates, solar panels, greenery and wood details, and 3D printed cores
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Carbon 201: Nine Tactics for Total Carbon Reduction

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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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an open ceiling with black orthogonal framing system that contains lighting pendants, pipes, metallic and red and blue tubes
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Data Center Design for Today and Tomorrow

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Curved hallway with floor to ceiling windows and wood panel ceiling. Round white recessed ceiling detail with hanging globe
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Choose Your Own Climate Adventure: Nine World-Changing Concepts from COP28

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Ideas

Own Your Design Career

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From Intern to Executive: Career Pathways for Black Designers

Our Global Leader of Equity, Diversity, and Belonging reflects on Black History Month’s theme and Black designers’ career journeys.

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Aerial view of group working at wood conference table with grey chairs on red floral rug. White paper and tablet in use

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Emerging Professional Experience: How Can I Intern at DLR Group?

Students often have questions about what it's like to join DLR Group as an intern. Here are some answers.

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Emerging Professionals: It All Comes Down to Core Values

The 2022 cohort of interns and new graduates tell us, in their words, how their work aligned with DLR Group’s core values.

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Emerging Professionals as a Priority

Prioritizing emerging professionals’ experience is a key part of workforce development.

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The Evolution of a Brand: AC Hotels

In partnership with Marriott, we have collaborated on the AC Hotel brand's evolution and designing 30 properties across the country.

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Overall view of lobby and lounge at a AC Hotel brand hotel featuring layered artwork, millwork detailing, and dark stone with white stone and furniture

Integrated Design

A pair of brick façade buildings, built in 1890, once a warehouse is now AC Hotel Grand Rapids Downtown, a hotel in a bustling downtown
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Adaptive Reuse: Converting Vacant Buildings into Thriving Spaces

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DLR Group designed buildings in a stylized poster series
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Bringing Project Stories to Iconic Graphic Status

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Integrating Technologies to Bring History to Life: A Krishna Story

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Featured Collab

A gray skyscraper with arched windows, columned rotunda, gold cupola, and spire flying a flag on top against a clear blue sky
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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Cleveland: Our Highlights

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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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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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Press

In the Media

Grand entryway for the Clackamas County Courthouse

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The Business Journals

Architect Ronok Nichols Reveals her Path to a Purpose-Driven Career

Justice and civic design expert Ronok Nichols shares her inspiring career journey and what lies ahead for her as DLR Group’s new Southeast region leader.

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Black multistory office building filled with windows in front of a larger multistory office building

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Canadian Architect

Timber Redux: Large Mass Timber Construction in Toronto

Our team’s new office development, T3 Sterling Road, leads the way for large mass timber construction in the city—and beyond.

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Rendering of a modern multistory building with red, orange, and yellow overhanging patio floors

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Urban Land Magazine

A Sense of Place—Revitalizing Downtowns Through Smart Placemaking

Matt Heller discusses placemaking’s potential in revitalizing downtowns and increasing inclusivity and equity in latest issue.

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Lounge space with multiple seating areas with wire pendant lights. marble half wall, right, below metal partition. Exposed ductwork above on white ceiling

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Work Design Magazine

Tech-First Environments Where Everyone Thrives

Through three Colorado case studies, Dominick Roveto shares key design components that tech-first environments need to thrive.

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Woman in a orange shirt walking up a staircase with a blue wall to the right with letters NIST. Two couples at the top of the stairs working in collaborative areas; NIST Boulder

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Lab Design News

The Evolution of a Lab Space: NIST's Wing 5 Renovation

Lab Design News featured the recently completed renovation of NIST Boulder Wing 5.

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Office common space with blue accent wall and textural ceiling over mixed seating and marble counter, kitchenette left

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Archinect

Four Civic and Justice Projects by DLR Group: Your Next Employer?

Archinect’s “Meet Your Next Employer” series explores the unique opportunities for designers at DLR Group.

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Couple standing on a second floor balcony overlooking the first floor filled with tables and chairs in front of large floor to ceiling windows

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Hospitality Design Magazine

Mizzou Prioritizes Hospitality in Memorial Stadium Transformation

Delivering an elevated hospitality experience for every fan is a priority for The Memorial Stadium Improvements Projects at the University of Missouri.

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Stone building with a mural light with phrase the history of tomorrow

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Architectural Record

Architectural Record Continuing Education: Trauma-Informed Design

Our firm's trauma-informed design principles create a learning environment of inclusion, safety, and optimism at Boys Town Education Center. Read how these principles are enriching the student and educator wellbeing at Boys Town in Architectural Record’s Continuing Education series.

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Football stadium filled with fans showing a large scoreboard with a view of skyscrapers in the background.

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Athletic Business

Houston’s New Scoreboard at TDECU Stadium Highlighted by Athletic Business

Our strategic design for Houston’s TDECU Stadium and Principal and Global Sports Leader Don Barnum, AIA, were featured in Athletic Business.

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Judy Hoskens

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The Resilience Lab with Rex Miller: Redefining Education Spaces

Principal and Senior Planner Judy Hoskens, AIA, Fellow-A4LE, was a participant in Rex Miller's Resilience Lab Roundtable, hosted by Imagine a Place Productions. Judy joined a group of thought leaders in education design to discuss how the built environment is shaping the educational experience for students and educators from early education all the way up to higher education.

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