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Design Achievement: Bassett Creek Business Center was one of the first properties redeveloped in the now desirable North Loop district of downtown Minneapolis. The mixed-use building blends three levels of office space with owner-occupied residential units on the two upper floors. Created from several buildings that were connected into one – including a parking structure that was converted to office space – the building has some unique challenges: a large footprint, long internal hallways, non-intuitive wayfinding, and a dark and chopped-up main lobby. DLR Group’s design transforms the building’s street level common areas via improved access to daylight and new tenant amenities—thereby enhancing the overall user experience. By relocating resident mailboxes; relocating, reconfiguring and updating the fitness center, associated locker rooms and public restrooms; and creating a new building common conference center and work/lounge concept with a fireplace, the refreshed lobby is a place to be, rather than just a place to pass through. Scope Summary: This project renovated 7,000 SF of space on the first floor of the Bassett Creek Business Center. The scope included re-planning of the existing lobby space, selective demolition of walls and ceilings, new paint, wall covering, flooring, and new furnishings. The areas of improvements encompassed new public restrooms, two meeting rooms, new tenant mailboxes, relocated fitness and the creation of a work/lounge concept within the main building entry lobby. DLR Group provided full interior architecture and design services, as well as furniture selections and specifications for the lobby and meeting room furniture.
Design Narrative - Located at a transportation hub in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, the Renaissance Square Bike Center accommodates the lifestyle of the bicycle commuter. DLR Group’s design uses local products in unique ways to create a one-stop-shop for cyclists. The full-service restaurant and social collaboration spaces are available to all visitors while bike storage, showers, bike retail and bike repair will be available for bike center members. The bike center’s sustainable, modern vibe appeals to eco-friendly patrons looking for a community that reflects their lifestyle. Controlled access and security are critical components to enable 24/7 access to the bike storage while providing rental opportunities for non-members. Scope Summary - The scope of this work includes transforming 12,000 square feet of prime real estate into a 4,700 square foot restaurant adjacent to 3,650 square feet of storage with the capability of storing 250 bikes and 5,300 square feet of amenity space for members. The project is designed to LEED Gold.
Design Achievement – In late May 2020, the Minnesota Transitions Charter School’s secondary facility and district offices were destroyed in the aftermath of civil unrest that shook the Minneapolis-St. Paul community and beyond. In a fast-track effort to return students to the classroom, DLR Group partnered with MTCS to design a temporary, innovative learning environment within the renowned Mall of America where students will have immediate access to internships at various businesses within the retail and entertainment center, providing greater opportunities to learn through real-life experiences. The design of the learning suite is minimally finished with an industrial feeling to allow students to create the space they need for any task. The ceilings are exposed to the steel and concrete structure above and a majority of the walls are fabric on moveable tracks. To promote flexibility and collaborative learning for a variety of group sizes the furniture, including all teaching equipment, is completely mobile. Scope Summary – While design and rebuilding efforts are underway at the school’s original location on east Lake Street, a 17,000 SF space located on the third level of the Mall of America. This space, a portion of an addition that was designed by DLR Group and opened in 2016, has transformed into a dynamic and active educational space for 150 students in grades 7-12. As an experiential learning space that will have students attend for specific classes and hands-on opportunities, the design incorporates spaces for classrooms, collaborative activities, and areas to display student work. The project moved from design through construction within a six-week period and was delivered in a design-build partnership. DLR Group provided interior architectural design services.
NOT TO SPEC Saint Catherine University approach DLR Group exclusively to help them develop a master plan for their Minneapolis and St. Paul campus’s. The initial outlook of the master plan is a three-phased approach to be implemented over several years. Through “zooming in” and “zooming out,” our team has developed a strategic multi-phase plan to move the Minneapolis campus completely to the St. Paul campus. Phase 1 will be the investigation of underutilized space in Coeur de Catherine (CdC) for relocation of faculty offices of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences (SHAS) currently housed in Whitby Hall. It will also include programming and planning of faculty offices to include major components that they don’t currently have like common shared collaborative spaces for students and faculty. These spaces foster gathering, sharing ideas, cross-pollinating, and opportunities to digitally and physically display student/faculty work. Other spaces include a lounge and a kitchenette for staff. This phase is strategically planned for summer construction projects. Phase 2 will focus on campus utilization studies of Minneapolis and St. Paul academic spaces, understanding areas to consolidate, right-sizing classrooms and labs to accommodate the future move of the Minneapolis campus to St. Paul. This phase will also include the programming and planning of health sciences programs. The next step will be a phased construction of department/program office and academic spaces (SHAS and Health sciences) on the St. Paul campus. Phase 3, the final phase, will be the overall master plan effort. With a multitude of utilization studies occurring in the first two phases, this master plan will be streamlined. It’s foundation will be Saint Catherine University’s Strategic Plan.
The scope of the work included the design and specifications for lighting, power and special systems. The auditorium lighting was retrofitted from an incandescent system with a large dimming rack to an energy efficient LED system with self-contained dimming driver and individually or grouped  controlled from the lighting control board. In addition the theatrical lighting was also retrofitted from an incandescent system to LED.
DLR Group, along with Chinn Planning, prepared a comprehensive juvenile justice system master plan that embraces a vision by the judiciary to develop a “bridge” that provides a holistic approach to juvenile delinquency and dependency in Metro Nashville/Davidson County. This included the development of an Assessment Center, Youth Center, and Respite Center that provides enhanced services for youth who may be detained for nonviolent offenses. Operating out of a facility built in 1993, the juvenile courts and their related agencies quickly outgrew the needs of the structure. The result forced critical agencies that work closely with the juvenile courts as advisors and advocacy groups to move to other locations within the city. Further, the design of the courthouse and detention center did not project an image and provide functional spaces that support the mission of using evidence-based programs and services to provide for the care, protection, and therapeutic and moral, mental, and physical development of the children coming within its provisions. The scope for the master plan consists of forecasting the future personnel, projecting space needs to support the staff and operations, conducting functional and physical evaluations of the existing facilities, assessing the various sites for a new juvenile justice center including the existing site, developing statements of probable projects costs for various options, and preparing a path forward to implement the vision of the juvenile justice system. The projected size for the new consolidated juvenile justice center is approximately 287,000 SF. DLR Group provided master planning and conceptual design services.

DLR Group provided comprehensive architectural design to Hines in support of their efforts to create a build-to-suit facility for the Social Security Administration consisting of over 600,000 GSF and structured parking for 1,715 parking cars. The facility is designed to achieve a Silver LEED certification and will be a corner piece to the downtown Central Business District of Birmingham. Utilizing a unitized curtain wall system, precast concrete, and under floor air distribution, the facility employs leading edge systems to incorporate sustainable design, energy efficient exterior cladding and optimal layout of tenant spaces. Unique to the design is the use of an atrium to introduce daylighting to the center of the building and create a strong central focal point. With a goal of maximizing daylight and views as well as planning efficiency, the design utilizes two parallel, rectangular shaped floor plans creating 8 and 11-story towers respectively, separated by a 38ft. wide atrium. The need for large footprints on the lower floors of the building resulted in a three-story service wing to the north of the office tower. This perpendicular wing accommodates the larger programs required at the lower floors and its narrow shape results in day lighting into the office areas. The floors have only one row of columns in their long axis and are based on a five-foot planning module to complement modern office modules and systems furniture. This configuration results in an efficient floor plate that achieves a common area factor of 1.12. Each tower is equipped with an elevator bank linked across the atrium by a bridge.
The proposed plan reduces the number of campuses in the 9,300-student district from 21 to 13. New buildings would replace the current Amboy, Boone Park, Meadow Park and Lakewood elementary schools. Crestwood, Glenview, Seventh Street and Indian Hills elementaries would be extensively renovated. Ridgeroad Middle Charter School would be converted to an elementary school, and Pike View Elementary would become a pre-kindergarten center. A new Middle School for all sixth- through eighth-graders would be built. Rose City Middle School would become the district’s alternative school. North Little Rock High School-West Campus — the former Ole Main High — would be renovated and expanded for 3000 ninth through 12th-graders.
Design Achievement: DLR Group partnered with the Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library (HSML) in New York City to program their historic exterior terraces in a way that engages and brings to the museum the Washington Heights community. Using state of the art projectors and innovative digital content developed from the collection, DLR Group transformed the normally dark Beaux Arts terrace into an active exterior gallery. Founded in 1904, the HSML houses the most important collection of art works in the world outside of Spain that focuses on the cultures of Old Spain and its colonies. The design for the terrace activation leverages one of the most significant exterior Beaux Arts spaces in the country as a vessel for making the art inside visible outside. Doing this while the museum is closed for renovations, we maintain and expand engagement with the local community and City as a whole in a variety of additional program opportunities that are more accessible, and less intimidating. Scope Summary: The projections utilize state-of-the-art 40,000 lumen Barco projectors that are digitally mapped to the details of the building facades. The content creatively enhances high resolution images of masterworks from the collection including art by Goya, Valazquez, Urrieta, and Sorolla. These are strategically projected onto specific surfaces of the building facades and interwoven with images from a current temporary exhibit at HSML by local artists. Complementing the projected art imagery on proud convex surfaces are color changing LED uplights within concave architectural recesses that are color-tuned to accentuate the colors of the projected artworks. DLR Group provided lighting, audiovisual, and content design services and managed the implementation of the full mock-up for the project.
101 – DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT The Consultant is to provide complete Professional Architectural & Engineering Services for A-E Pod Repairs at the Adult Corrections Facility, Middlesex County, NJ. The Consultant is to provide construction plans and specifications for each portion of the repair process. The facility modifications must be designed in accordance with the standards developed by the American Correctional Association (ACA). Areas of Concern: 1. Modifications and repairs shall be isolated to Pods A-E. The intent shall be to sustain these housing units for an additional 10 plus years. 2. A-E Pod repairs shall include new accessible plumbing and electrical chases. Address all electrical runs and pipe chases and design for new electrical and plumbing runs (plumbing includes any water and gas lines). The new runs shall be in accessible locations for maintenance purposes (exterior if possible). 3. Provide dehumidifiers if needed in pods, pipe chases, and mechanical rooms. 4. A-E Pods have multiple rusted doors/ frames which need to be addressed. 5. A-E Pods have multiple damaged windows which need to be replaced. 6. A-E Pods roof repairs are necessary. 7. New roof top units, supporting HVAC equipment, and structural modifications need replacement or upgrading throughout the facility. Provide any electrical modifications to support HVAC equipment. Maintain easy access to all equipment. All duct work left to remain shall be cleaned and all supply and return grilles should be replaced. The consultant shall preform load calculations for each zone to ensure each unit is properly sized and balanced to handle the providing area(s). Additionally, structural modifications may be necessary, calculations are needed to ensure the new roof top units and HVAC equipment are supported properly. (Pad mount RTU’s if more economical). Replace all gas valves leading to roof top units. Provide roof walk pads leading to and around all units/ equipment. The Consultant shall consider ground HVAC units if more economical. 8. All bathrooms and shower rooms need be renovated floor to ceiling. New plumbing, dehumidifiers, and fixtures shall be included. Mold remediation will be necessary. 4 NOB9011\2023A-E Pods\Design\#3 101 – DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT (Cont’d) 9. Site drainage improvements are needed on the rear side of the building. Re-grading and drainage piping is needed to prevent water from collecting or ponding in these areas. Additionally, mold remediation shall be included as well as any interior or exterior building repairs. 10. New LED Lighting in A-E Pods if found necessary. 11. Facility will be secured and occupied 24/7. Therefore, construction is anticipated to proceed in incremental stages. Prisoners will be shifted temporarily from area to area as construction proceeds. Prisoner temporary relocations shall be considered. Temporary modifications to Pods H, I, J, and K may be necessary to accommodate the construction staging. Construction must be isolated/sealed off from active areas of the facility whenever feasible. Consultant shall identify systems and items to be replaced or repaired, plus coordinate design with other specialists. Design shall consider sequence of systems to be constructed (order of replacement), as well as staging of construction (when and how systems will be replaced). 12. Any renovation to the building shall be Uniform Construction Code compliant as well as ADA compliant. Accessibility should be incorporated to the maximum extent practical in renovated areas.
This project involves the transformation of an existing historic building into multi-family housing, the construction of a new mixed use retail and multi-family building, and the construction of 17 new townhomes. DLR Group is providing Architecture, Interior Design, and Project Management.
Project Narrative: NRG Energy is one of the leading integrated power companies in the United States, priding itself on serving “smarter energy choices” to a wide variety of customers both residential and commercial. To suit its rapid expansion, the company needed a new headquarters powered by the green, energy efficient solutions that they promote. DLR Group helped NRG Energy realize this sustainable goal by designing solar carports, solar shade havens and a rooftop solar hot water system for the campus. With these designs in place, NRG Energy can continue to walk the walk in energy leadership. Scope Summary: The scope of work for this facility included three main parts: solar carports, a solar shade haven, and a solar hot water system. The solar carports utilize translucent solar modules, custom tapered steel shapes, and aluminum composite architectural cladding to create parking canopies complimentary to the new building’s design. Solar havens were created with structural steel framing in an employee gathering space outside of the building and serve as shelters for employees during break times. The solar hot water system is comprised of 8 panels with a nominal capacity of 328 kBtu per day. It is designed to provide up to 20% of daily domestic hot water needs at optimal conditions. DLR Group provided mechanical, structural, and electrical engineering services.
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Design Achievement - Latino Baseball Town is the next logical evolution of player development in the Dominican Republic. DLR Group's design creates a hub for Latino Baseball Town that is a modern, expandable 20,000 to 30,000 seat stadium able to host World Baseball Congress games, MLB spring training games, and potentially regular season games. Player development is at the core of Latino Baseball Town. The first phase includes 4-to-6 comprehensive player development academies, with a master plan to allow for phased approach to add additional academies. Scope Summary - The scope of this project is a recreational lifestyle center anchored on the theme of baseball on approximately 1,500 acres in La Romana, Dominican Republic. At full build-out, Latino Baseball Town will be the anchor and hub of the nation with shopping centers, hotel and conference facilities, residential townhouses and villas, concerts, and other sporting and entertainment activities. Latino Baseball Town is also slated to be the new, modern home of the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame. This convenient location is 12 minutes from Casa de Campo on the new Coral highway, five minutes from the La Romana airport. DLR Group provided architecture, planning and brand development for this project.
Design Achievement: With a vast tradition in culture, the modern-day Ho Chi Minh City is developing economically at a pace that is elevating its position as one of the most culturally significant cities within Vietnam. There is increasing focus on aligning the cultural and economic development of the region and improving the world’s perception of the city’s commitment to the arts. DLR Group’s concept design for a new Theater for Ballet, Symphony, Orchestra, and Opera aims to position this vibrant international city as one of the leading cultural centers of the region while promoting traditional Vietnamese cultural values. Situated prominently on the Saigon River, the building form evokes local Saigon songbirds that are a tradition in the city and draw the community as well as international visitors to hear them perform in the local parks. The beauty of sound and the graceful form are ideal references to the performances and movement that will happen within in the new structure. Perched on the edge of the water, the building offers the people inside magnificent views while also promoting an iconic image for those approaching the site. Scope Summary: This approximately 221,750 SF civic building features 1,200 and 500-seat performance spaces, an outdoor amphitheater, multiple rehearsal and exhibition spaces as well as administrative and support spaces. The two main theaters are the heart of the project. The design offsets their locations so patron are encouraged to move through the building, rising upward to experience the city from various vantage points. The theater stages form the spine of the form with the performance hall lobbies having distinct and different views towards the water and the newly developing Thu Thiem area. The enveloping facade is reminiscent of the wings and feathers of the songbird and the material is intended to create a feeling of movement as the sun moves across the sky. DLR Group provided Master Planning, Architecture, and Sustainability services.
Design Achievement - Kenyatta University seeks to establish a comprehensive, modern campus that appeals to the increasing numbers of collegiate bound Kenyans. DLR Group’s Master Plan provides the necessary framework for Kenyatta University to grow from 35,000 students to 70,000 students by 2030. The Master Plan re-organizes the facilities to coordinate with the planned academic re-alignment and adds several significant components including a stadium, recreation center, and over 10,000 beds of student housing. A transit loop, new Medical school, staff housing, and an incubator research park are also elements of the new plan. DLR Group planned traditional campus amenities such as a new main quad, academic precincts, and a green space network with shaded pedestrian connections. Scope Summary – The scope of work comprised master planning and initial concept design for 350 hectares Urban Campus. DLR Group provided master planning services.
Design Achievement - Kenyatta University seeks to establish a comprehensive, modern campus that appeals to the increasing numbers of collegiate bound Kenyans. DLR Group’s Master Plan provides the necessary framework for Kenyatta University to grow from 35,000 students to 70,000 students by 2030. The Master Plan re-organizes the facilities to coordinate with the planned academic re-alignment and adds several significant components including a stadium, recreation center, and over 10,000 beds of student housing. A transit loop, new Medical school, staff housing, and an incubator research park are also elements of the new plan. DLR Group planned traditional campus amenities such as a new main quad, academic precincts, and a green space network with shaded pedestrian connections. Scope Summary – Master Plan for 350 hectares Urban Campus.
Design Achievement - Inspired by contemporary applications of traditional building materials, Wendy Court will be an iconic mixed-use building on a tightly constrained site. DLR Group’s design employs striations seen in indigenous weaving patterns are translated to a repetitive cadence of rainscreen on the exterior, with large voids giving passerby glimpses into the buildings heart - a dynamic central atrium. This penetration also allows for internal daylighting, air circulation, and additional internal and external views. Scope Summary - The 400,000 square foot, 15-story structure contains underground parking, lower floor retail, office space, and residential / hospitality on upper floors. DLR Group provided concept design services.
Design Achievement –Al Khobar is located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia along the coast of the Persian Gulf. The design and orientation of the mall maximizes the benefits from the site by taking advantage of the views and water to provide for opportunities for al fresco dining and open plazas connected to the Corniche. The mall is meticulously crafted and molded to respond to contextual variables such as traffic flow, nature views, etc. The front of the mall parallel to Corniche Road unveils the more articulated portion of the project by terracing the different levels which not only break down the scale of the 3 level shopping center but also provide vast views towards the sea and signature fountain. The music, lights, and movement of the large water fountain in front of the project creates a unique sensory experience to become one of the numerous wow factors this project offers. The exterior terraces on ground, first, second and third level offer a wide variety of dining options for both families and singles whether looking to enjoy the fountain show from one of the signature family restaurants or perhaps relax in the shisha lounge amongst friends. DLR Group provided architectural services. Scope Summary – The scope of work for this project includes 200,422 SM, three (3) level mall, 27 story tower with 12 level of service apartments over 15 levels of hotel rooms. In addition, 36 private villas are planned overlooking the main water feature.
1,000 room hotel with meeting and retail space.  Located near the upcoming convention center expansion.
The new Everett Delivery Center (EDC) is one of the mostunique Class A of fice buildings in the world. DLR Group’ sdesign aims to immerse Boeing’ s international clientelein a world-class customer experience when acquiring newlarge-body aircraft. The 180,000 SF , three-story facilityprovides of fice and conferencing environments for Boeingand clients during a purchase and acquisition process thatcan span months. At the heart of the EDC is a delivery environment whereBoeing will finalize transactions with each customer .This area is a final climactic touch-point for the client’ sexperience with Boeing. From this delivery environment,customers will see their new plane waiting for them onthe tarmac. Because customers literally depart theEDC by flying away in their new aircraft, the design alsoincludes airport amenities and functions including TSAoperations and jetways.

Design Achievement - In September of 2015 Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) named DLR Group as the exclusive architect of record for an initiative to increase their number of locations in the Southern Florida. This open ended account was awarded to DLR Group after years of establishing a relationship with people who now work for OSH’s exclusive developer Oppidan Investment Company. In the preceding months DLR Group finished permitting on their first Southern Florida location in Fort Lauderdale simultaneously with various additional locations. Scope Summary - The scope of work for most OSH stores which DLR Group has worked on are around 25,000 - 35,000 SF. DLR Group’s design maintains OSH’s brand in spaces that are all different and unique. This mindset seen through the DLR Group’s enthusiasm towards working on these new OSH locations allows for ingenuity to utilize both existing and new modified space to meet the OSH’s store needs. DLR Group provided architecture services.
Symposium/Community Engagement Focused Narrative (primary) Design Achievement - The Seattle Waterfront Symposium explores how public and private stakeholders and social services organizations are an integral part of the City of Seattle’s vision for a Waterfront for All. The event was developed in partnership with Friends of Waterfront Seattle and Feet First, a Seattle-based nonprofit working to ensure all communities in Washington are walkable. DLR Group’s design team organized an experience that guides stakeholders through the existing conditions of the Seattle Waterfront to the vision of what the reality of this space could be with the removal of the Viaduct and the appropriate teams designing and developing the land. The discussion centered around three current development case studies and three concept design vignettes. The Symposium investigates how private development, artists, and residents might engage the Waterfront Seattle plans and catalyzes a conversation about private investment in the Waterfront neighborhood as complement to the transportation, public park, and right of way investments being made by the City for the public good. These concept designs explore how private development can benefit by considering how the existing residents, business owners, land owners, and not-for-profits along the waterfront and downtown are served, including accommodation of social services and workforce housing. A potential outcome of the Symposium may include creation of a cultural overlay district that would inform a more equitable and art-focused development of the Waterfront as a vibrant retail/commercial/mixed-use district. Scope Summary - The project explored urban planning scale transportation, infrastructure, and land use issues as the first step to identifying potential private development opportunities aligned with and supportive of the City of Seattle’s Seattle Waterfront redevelopment. Leveraging an existing private utility already in the neighborhood at a time in which the right-of-way is under major reconstruction, the vision for growth of the neighborhood defines the opportunity for development of a green infrastructure district that would support not only new construction projects, but also existing buildings in the sixteen block district. This central heating loop would serve as a demonstration project for the City of Seattle as it seeks methods by which it can meet the City’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2050. Design explorations explored layered themes to support varying scales of investment and empowerment and different levels of public/private partnership. Design Focused Narrative (secondary) DLR Group’s design concepts for a Seattle Waterfront Neighborhood explore how owners and developers might aid the City of Seattle in providing civic solutions through private/public partnership - a chief means of accomplishing the City’s vision for a Waterfront for All. To root this vision in community consensus, the design team organized the Seattle Waterfront Symposium. The interactive Symposium guided stakeholders through the existing conditions of the Seattle Waterfront to a vision of what this neighborhood could be. The Symposium initiates the conversation about private investment in the Waterfront neighborhood as complement to the transportation, public park, and right of way investments being made by the City for the public good. DLR Group’s concept designs consider how the waterfront’s existing residents, business owners, land owners, and not-for-profits are served, including through the accommodation of social services and workforce housing. A Cultural Overlay District would inform a more equitable and art-focused development of the Waterfront as a vibrant retail/commercial/mixed-use district. Urban planning scale transportation, infrastructure, and land use issues are other keys to identifying potential private development opportunities. Leveraging an existing private utility to create a central heating loop, new green infrastructure would support not only new construction projects, but also existing buildings in the sixteen block district - and help to meet the City’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2050. The architectural expression is dynamic, announcing the vitality of this revived neighborhood. The region’s rich economic history in timber trade finds expression in a multi-story timber-framed building, which also acts as a carbon sink. Paired with public park amenities, the timber building supports the goal of habitat regeneration. The building itself houses retail, office, creative maker or gallery space, live/work lofts, and residential.
Design Achievement - As the city of Seattle makes moves to promote mass timber construction, this 12-story mixed-use tower is poised to be among the first mass timber high rises in the U.S. DLR Group's design of the form and massing of the tower accentuates and juxtaposes soft, curvilinear shapes and culminating, pointed forms. The formal language of dovetail and interlocking shapes of the enclosure is a subtle reference to the timber aesthetic of the finger and dovetail joinery. The tower maximizes opportunities for exposed wood surfaces on the interior beams, columns, walls and ceilings. These elements are clearly visible from the exterior. The exterior enclosure consists of a state-of-the-art curtain wall system. The seemingly delicate but robust exterior shading devices are an integral part of the south-west elevation featuring gently curving pairs of steel branches. The mixed-use program includes street level retail, five floors of commercial offices, and a 192-key hotel. The building is crowned by a roof top garden and bar that is operated by the hotel and accessible to the public. The landscape design program of the building includes a newly created nearby park extension. A full-height stack of three and four level atria includes “Tech Rooms” that provide informal meeting and lounge areas for the office and hotel floors and serve as an organizing element for the tower. Scope Summary - The scope focus is the design potential, with primary efforts on system design, structural cost, and constructibility. The Tower is 214 feet tall with the roof of the highest occupied floor at 180 feet height. The substructure of the building includes five levels of ramped parking, internal loading docks and utilities infrastructure. A structural column grid of 12.5 feet x 42 feet reduces the dimensions of primary mass timber structure components, maximizing the number of local manufacturers that will have the capability to bid for this project. Mass timber connections such as beam-to-column and column-to-column transitions are steel embeds that are concealed by the glue-laminated timber geometry for fire protection. The typical floor-to-floor heights are 14 feet, with 18 feet at street level and level 12. The typical office floor plates average at 25,800 gross square feet and a total of 135,000 gross square feet. This mass timber design follows a new building classification of Type IV-B. The primary frame, bearing walls and floors require a 2-hour fire-resistant rating (FRR), and the roof requires 1-hour FRR. Unprotected portions of mass timber ceilings, including integral beams, are permitted and limited to an area equal to 20 percent of the floor area or unprotected portions of mass timber walls, including integral columns are permitted and limited to an area equal to 40 percent of the floor area. The key objective of the high-performance lighting and HVAC design is to highlight a minimally intrusive and concise distribution design, preserving both the aesthetics and structural integrity of a mass timber design. Each floor of the building will be zoned independently and served by dedicated outside air and a radiant floor system for heating and cooling.
Design Achievement Mary’s Place is a non-profit organization that provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for women and families. Usually their services are provided in temporary facilities in cooperation with area landlords. The new Mary’s Place Family Center in Burien is a permanent home for their core mission, and an opportunity for future growth in the community and for their services. DLR Group’s pro-bono planning and visioning study considers the expansion opportunities for additional buildings on site to welcome a wide variety of users. The western portion of the site is nestled in an existing residential neighborhood and has glorious views of the surrounding mountain ranges; generous setback will save trees and mitigate impact on neighbors to the west. This is the ideal site for an apartment building that can provide homes to many more families than Mary’s Place had the capacity to help before. The eastern edge of the site fronts a local commercial road. This offers the opportunity for more homes, but also for retail establishments which support the client’s goal of becoming a good neighbor for the broader community. These shops will provide employment opportunities to residents as well as the ability to make connections with the neighbors. Scope Summary At the time of this visioning study the comprehensive plan for the city is due for reconsideration. This includes a revision of zoning to shift it from the current office zone to one that is more suitable for neighborhood retail and denser residential buildings. This will provide the team with the opportunity to ask for the site to be considered as more of a neighborhood center, allowing a greater range of uses and allowing us to be more engaged in the local community. The existing building sits on about four acres of land that allows for two additional buildings to be built, one to the west and another to the east of the current Mary’s Place building. A new residential building at the west end of the site can provide up to 100 new homes; many with Sound and Mountain views. A new mixed-use apartment building along Ambaum Blvd SW can provide up to 40 more homes as well as 20,000 to 25,000 SF of retail and community amenity spaces that can provide employment opportunities and chances to engage with, and provide for, the broader community. DLR Group is providing planning and architectural services, pro-bono, for Mary’s Place.
Cannot use Google name with images in external marketing. External refer to client as Global Technology Client. Contact Workplace NMM before any Marketing use. Design Achievement: As Google expands their presence in the Pacific Northwest, they were intrigued by the idea of a mass timber building on the east side of their new, under-construction campus. No stranger to mass timber buildings, DLR Group gathered in-house experts on the subject as well as in-house engineers and high-performance building designers to round out the integrated team. DLR Group’s design ideas for this timber building push the traditional lines and boundaries of designing with wood; “creative timber” concepts and considerations quite literally think outside the box, reimagining the typically rectilinear shape while keeping true to the sustainable and efficient features of mass timber. Three schemes were imagined: a push and pull, an object within a frame, and a different grid. The first option takes the three-dimensional grid of mass timber and starts to push and pull volumes to create modularity, gathering points, circulation, and increased visual and human interest. The second option also begins with the same grid but introduces organic shapes and undulating facades that vary on each floor, creating unique interstitial spaces that don’t need heating or cooling. The hard walls are also moved in from the perimeter, reducing the heat load and need for as much conditioning, or, alternatively, the building can take on a double skin, where these interstitial spaces are also conditioned. The final option steps away from the traditional grid for one that includes triangles and hexagons to form the structural system. Carving away at this box creates indoor and outdoor spaces that are much more angular and geometric and can take on greater volumes and structural loads; multi-story brace frame tubes come up through the building to stiffen and embrace it, while also providing opportunities for decentralized core elements like stairs and restrooms. Scope Summary: The scope of this project included six stories of corporate offices over one-to-two floors of retail, at a total area of approximately 230,000 gross square feet for the superstructure, in addition to underground parking. Keeping in mind the “rules of engagement” with timber buildings and ongoing work trends – where a work from home model allows focus/desk work to be completed at home while the office is largely used for collaboration/socialization – the team implemented a significant ‘shift’ within the building. The majority of the building’s square footage is dedicated to social and collaboration space, with a reduced desking presence, and common areas are placed around the perimeter of the space, where natural light is abundant and greater temperature fluctuations due to thermal loading and solar orientation are more acceptable. The building systems were also explored, specifically the use of upturn beams and raised floor systems, which bring a higher initial price tag but offer a number of benefits including increased flexibility and aesthetics, as all ductwork and cabling is under the floor, and enhanced air quality for tenants. DLR Group provided conceptual design and engineering services.
Design Achievement - This unique retail space attracts a younger clientele with a focus on sustainable and healthy living. DLR Group’s design integrates sustainable systems into the A-frame architecture through the implementation of mass timber and sawtooth skylights for natural daylight. This immersive social hub offers both employees and customers an interactive experience with spaces for fitness classes, a juice bar and café, food-hall, spa, and a retail section. Biophilic design elements throughout the space provide a connection to nature and attract young employees and customers as part of a climate-conscious design. This space differentiates itself by connecting to nature with biophilia present throughout the space and attracts younger employees and customers with the climate conscious design. Scope Summary - The scope of this design includes retail space, restaurant and café, spa, meeting areas, and fitness rooms. The use of mass timber in the construction is indicative of the sustainable focus of this design. Sawtooth skylights allow for natural daylight to brighten the space and create a more natural environment for customers and employees. DLR Group provided visioning design service.
*Project Name and Location Confidential* Design Achievement – Located on an iconic golf resort in the Pacific Northwest with pristine courses and views that are unmatched, this lifestyle hotel and spa will focus on design, food and beverage, and new amenities for both golfers and non-golfers. A timeless design approach will tap into and amplify the coastal landscape context with warmth and softness, complimenting the masculine with the feminine, resulting in a unique version of understated rustic luxury. Architecture elements and interiors textures will utilize natural materials informed by the landscape around it, allowing guests to feel connected to their surroundings. Scope Summary – A iconic destination hotel and spa including a diverse mix of 100 cottage and traditional style guestroom suites, three different artisan food and beverage outlets, private event space, and a luxurious five-stars spa. DLR Group provided conceptual architectural programming and design along with hospitality interior concepts and planning services.
Phase One of Sacramento City College’s West Sacramento Center features a three-story, 25,600-square-foot building that houses ten classrooms, an administration area, and a student E-lounge. The facility is located on West Capitol Avenue directly across from the West Sacramento Civic Center. This building is the first phase of a multi-phase project that, when completed, will encompass 75,000 square feet. The overall build-out of the site is a mixed use, collaborative development between the City of West Sacramento and Yolo County. The DLR Group overall master plan included 75,000 square feet for Los Rios Community College District, a 20,000-square-foot community center by the County of West Sacramento, an 18,000 Yolo County library, a 250-car parking garage, and retail shops.
Design Achievement - DLR Group has provided design, planning and engineering services for North Clackamas School District as part of a $433 million bond to modernize their schools. The projects that are a result of the bond will positively impact over 17,000 students in the district through major facilities renovations, safety upgrades, and new construction. DLR Group’s latest focus is the North Clackamas School District's Owen Sabin - Ben Schellenberg Professional Technical Center. The CTE program spans across three campuses with buildings dating back to 1967. DLR Group helped bring to life the school district’s vision of being recognized as the top CTE program in the state of Oregon with the renovation and addition of over 145,000 SF of space. The design changes support District initiatives of connectivity, safety, and security ensuring all students receive safe and equitable experiences at these facilities. Scope Summary – The renovation and small additions focus on providing cutting edge CTE space to support a variety of programs including: fabrication, auto-motive, fabrication, cosmetology, and culinary arts. In addition to architecture and interior design services for the renovation of Owen Sabin – Ben Schellenberg Professional Technical Center, DLR Group scope includes the design of experiential graphics as well as interior and exterior wayfinding solutions. The new experiential graphics create placemaking opportunities within the buildings that also add wayfinding cues into the existing architecture. Exterior monument signage, vehicular signage, and pedestrian signage directs users and visitors between the three campuses while a consistent design makes it simple to identify arrival to campus. DLR Group provided architecture, interior design and experiential graphic design.
Design Achievement – Arts & Communication Magnet Academy (ACMA) is a publicly funded arts magnet school for grades 6-12 within the Beaverton School District. ACMA’s innovative educational community engages students and staff in achieving academic and artistic excellence. The design delivers a flexible space to ignite a desire in ACMA students to create and question within a rigorous academic program exploring a wide array of artistic disciplines. The combination of high expectations and placing the arts at the core of curriculum will produce graduates well-prepared for post-secondary study in a wide range of pursuits within and outside of the arts. Scope Summary – The scope of this project encompasses the design for a new facility for 725 students in grades 6-12 and direct connection to an existing performing arts theater. A member of the International Network of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education, ACMA is the only stand-alone arts magnet school in Oregon. The new building totals 75,900 SF. DLR Group is providing planning, architecture, engineering (MEP), and interior design services. Idea Exchange Student-centric shared learning areas dubbed the “Idea Exchange” are centered in each pod, surrounded by classrooms. The Idea Exchange Spaces promote creative ideas, collaboration, and helps foster a community of artists and makers. Student Commons The Student Commons functions as a hub around which the special programs of ACMA are organized. In addition to providing the school with a space for large gatherings and meals, the Student Commons becomes the heart of the school where students from a variety of different study areas can come together to share, perform, and create. Visibility Keeping these special programs visible from the Student Commons allows a Window into the process of making. It emphasizes the importance of process in art instead of only celebrating the finished product.
Design Achievement - DLR Group in collaboration with Garfield Traub Development and MANICA Architecture proposed a concept design to the City of Anaheim for the Anaheim Convention Center Expansion and new Westin Headquarters Hotel. The expansion compliments the existing beautiful and iconic convention center. DLR Group designed to functionally and architecturally be compatible with the existing convention center using state of- the-art technology and first class finishes consistent with the existing facility. Flexible meeting space and an exhibition area are maximized and provide a creative design that offers sunlit pre function halls, dedicated services corridors and essentially column-free, contiguous space. Scope Summary - The proposed 400 room Westin hotel, working with Starwood Hotel is designed to be an 350,000 SF extension of the convention center which includes a 36,000 SF of ballroom and meeting spaces and a 5,000 SF full service restaurant. Two dramatic glass facades are used to integrate the expansion seamlessly and aesthetically into the campus. While one forms a continuation of the existing convention center, the other will create a front door for the headquarters hotel. This project features world class amenities including a 7,000 SF Heavenly Spa and Fitness Center, and a dramatic rooftop pool with incredible views of the Disney Theme Parks and of Anaheim. DLR Group provided architectural services.
Design Achievement This Global Technology Client is looking to expand their office buildings – Hubs – at their Data Center Campuses worldwide. DLR Group’s design is a scalable prototype for a mass timber Hub to meet these international needs. A modular design was developed to allow for scaling to fit the needs of a given campus with single-story or two-story options, while providing the opportunity to grow in the future. The modular design also makes it easy to situate on each site, prioritizing natural light and proximity to the existing Data Center. The purity of the diagrid structural system floating over the spaces below give a sense of whimsy and meandering for the Hub workers to conduct their everyday business in a space that encourages curiosity and movement. Exposure to the mass timber material inherently provides the benefits of biophilia, in addition to other biophilic aspects integrated into the spaces such as plantings that double as cues for programmatic functions of the space, and experiential graphics representative of natural elements. The design gives a feeling of meandering through the interior space which spills to the exterior via interstitial spaces that adapt to unique site conditions such as views or unique geography. These interstitial spaces act as construction buffers for when new building phases would get added and house unique program such as wellness spaces or flexible seating. Scope Summary This mass timber-oriented design will be implemented as a standard in the construction of these Hubs. They will need to be built at a vast array of scales and grow if Data Center demand grows on any campus. Providing a kit-of-parts to be used to assemble, disassemble, then reassemble based on Data Center capacity was crucial to the design. Hub sizes can range from accommodating 40 people to over 450 and the scale of the Hub would be reflective of Data Center capacity. Our prototypical design accommodates 240 working personnel within a 58,000 square foot facility. This facility can be built over the course of 4 phases, growing as Data Center capacity grew on campus. The use of natural material – charred wood or lightly colored wood – on the exterior take into consideration the local climate to reduce the amount of thermal load placed on the interior. The façade is also modular and comes in 16 different combinations of fenestration and shading depending on which direction the façade faces. The large floor to ceiling windows let in a great amount of natural light and can be used in both a one story or two story scheme. Pushing the limits of modularity and structural use of the mass timber, 72% of the building can be either completely or partially assembled prior to arriving on site. Typical program components included: Reception/Lobby, Security Operations Center, Microkitchens, Conference Rooms, Huddle Rooms, Full Service Kitchen and Café, Fitness Center, Flexible Desking, and Indoor/Outdoor Seating. DLR Group provided architectural, interior design, high performance design, and engineering services.
Design Narrative: With over 1,300 online classes and 24,000+ students enrolled worldwide, Oregon State University Ecampus Division is one of the leading online academic programs in the country. As OSU looks to their future, they want a visionary road map to prioritize future funding and facility needs while defining a successful growth and implementation process. To achieve that goal, they retained DLR Group to help them establish planning principles and a guiding framework for future development and enhancement of the campus environment to accommodate future growth and functional space needs. DLR Group has developed a consensus-driven and campus sensitive approach to engagement with various stakeholder groups throughout the process. Using innovative online tools for collaboration and active engagement the team will create and evaluate test-fits for Ecampus’ physical growth and expansion of international enrollment, research, and corporate partnerships. The flexible guiding framework will enable OSU to respond to changing conditions, campus-based curriculum and/or pedagogies, evolving technology, and increasingly scarce resources while focusing on collaboration and learning that extend beyond the traditional classroom or workspace. Scope Summary: The feasibility study will provide a 5-10 year aspirational framework for Ecampus’ space accommodations. DLR Group is providing programming for approx. 25,000 asf in partnership with Ecampus leadership and developing strategic alignment with the capital plan/forecast for future capital funding scenarios.
Design Achievement: The South County Detention Facility will be built on part of a 60-acre parcel of farmland straddling the city of Porterville’s south end and unincorporated Tulare County. Tulare County’s existing jails all are on the county’s north side, in or near Visalia. A jail in the south allows for easier and less costly transport of inmates to the new Superior Court building in Porterville. DLR Group was brought in to cost effectively resolve design issues with the project's original architect, which included inefficient use of space in the inmate-housing areas that would have raised the construction costs $17 million over the original $50 million construction budget. DLR Group was able to maintain both the project budget and schedule without compromising the project's original functionality and objectives, bringing the jail’s design costs down lower than what the County expected to pay in the previous contract. Scope Summary: The South County Detention Facility is a 516-bed facility with a makeup of 480 general population beds divided between 2-person cells and 8-person dorms. In addition, there are 10 segregation cells. The bed count is rounded out with an additional 16 mental health beds and 10 medical beds. The general population housing is broken up into eight 60-bed pods. Six of these pods are double cells in a stacked mezzanine configuration. The additional two 60-bed pods are made up of 8-person securable dorms in a similar stacked configuration. There are two full housing units centered around a raised control room viewing four pods each. There is one outdoor recreation area shared by two pods for a total of 4 recreation areas. In addition, there is a large fenced exterior recreation area to the west of the facility. The segregation beds are divided between male and female, each with their own recreation yard attached to a small dayroom space. The housing area is divided from all of the support functions by a linear corridor running north and south. To support the population, it was important to include internal outpatient medical facilities, inpatient medical beds and a mental health housing unit, as well as food service and laundry facilities. Including these functions in the facility greatly reduces costs to securely transport inmates to hospitals or food/laundry to and from the County's north facilities.
DLR Group was selected to prepare a master plan and to design a new social hall for the church.  The project scope may also include an addition to the church and remodeling of the existing facility.  Existing church is 200 seats.  Addition might be 100 seats lobby and music room.  Hall is about 8,000 SF. The project is set to kick off in November.
Estrella Correctional Facility is an existing Juvenile Justice Facility built in the 1950s being converted to a 1,000 bed, Level II Prison for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). This project will retrofit over 30 existing buildings on site and add nine buildings to bring this facility up to CDCR standards. Items being added to the site include an electrified perimeter fence system, new security systems throughout existing and new buildings, fire / life safety upgrades, addition of secure master control building and general upgrades throughout the site to meet ADA and CDCR functional criteria. The first phase of the project was to complete a facility assessment that included review of ADA, CDCR design criteria guidelines, fire / life safety, building structure, finishes and existing security systems. The second phase recently completed was the preliminary planning of all new and existing buildings, perimeter fencing, security systems, new redundant electrical systems, mechanical systems and fire / life safety upgrades to meet current 2010 codes and CDCR standards for a Level II facility.
Design Achievement - The Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility is an opportunity for the County of Los Angeles to transform and set the newest standard of excellence on how correctional services are delivered through a treatment-based strategy. This approach is a first of its kind model that will be observed and copied by other municipalities and governments throughout the world. It will stand to represent a paradigm shift in the model of care and treatment that facilitates greater success in the reform of incarcerated patients who struggle with a myriad of substance abuse, mental and physical health issues. Standing as a beacon of hope and a symbol of the County’s renewed commitment to the inmate-patients in their custody, the CCTF is not a “Typical Jail”. The facility is designed to provide the appropriate space to house treatment programs for inmate-patients suffering from a mental and/or medical illness and substance-use disorder and provide rehabilitation programs to re-integrate these inmate-patients back into society. Scope Summary - The Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility will redefine incarceration standards for the County, state, and nation. The new 3,885-bed project replaces the existing Men’s Central Jail. The facility is a shift in correctional strategy that re-prioritizes inmate-patient treatment and rehabilitation, as opposed to only incarceration. The facility is designed to simultaneously meet the county’s detention needs, prioritize the safety and working conditions of staff, and recognize the humanity of inmate-patients by promoting wellness strategies throughout the complex.
NOT TO SPEC The Technical Instruction Building at Pierce College includes an alternative fuel vehicle lab, an advanced diagnostics and emissions vehicle lab, a hybrid technology/electric vehicles lab, a dyno-cell room, central tool storage, classrooms, faculty offices and work areas. Services Provided: DLR Group is providing construction documents, DSA approval, bid support and construction administration services for this project. Date Completed: 2020 (est) Total size: 21,300 SF Total Construction Value: $18,300,000 Reference: Terry Devlin, Project Manager - Pierce College 310.570.3189, terry.devlin@build-laccd.org
Design Achievement - In order to meet defined Educational and Facility Master Plan goals for the campus, Irvine Valley College decided to demolish and replace the current and outdated A400 classroom building with a new 2-story academic building. The need to improve the functional organization of the A400 building also offered the opportunity to help create a building with a more inviting and memorable presence. DLR Group's design for the new replacement classroom building is strategically placed in order to minimize the building footprint on the available site area, which captures more useable exterior site area surrounding the building. Our design strategy creates a diversity of outdoor spaces and integrates them with the landscape to promote a collegial environment encouraging social and instructional gathering. Building materials include plaster, punched glazed windows and large planes of glazing with a feature entry canopy and accent canopy expressing at the front door of the building. Scope Summary - The scope of work for this project encompassed a new two-story 25,278 SF LEED Silver classroom building. The building consists of 12 classrooms (ranging in size from 30-45 seats), an anthropology/geography lab, a writing center, an honors study area, offices and associated support space. DLR Group provided architecture and interior design services for this design/build project.
This master plan was created to guide the use and development of potential new and existing buildings within San Bernardino County to meet current and future County needs. The total program includes approximately 750,000 square feet and is expected to contain 25 departments, totaling 74 divisions. Our scope of work included programming, master planning, development of design standards, and cost estimating for the new government center. DLR Group conducted meetings with County staff and users to develop a final space program that will best accommodate various County functions, developed stacking diagrams for all buildings to identify current and future Department/Division occupancy at each floor level, prepared site analysis documents, developed conceptual site plans, and prepared the final Master Plan document.
DLR Group is working with the City of Fairfield to provide a needs assessment for the Fairfield Police Department over the city’s 10-year planning horizon toward projected build-out of the city.  Needs assessment and strategic projections were also provided for the city’s IT department, as well as fleet management and crime prevention programs of the police department. Services include development of a program with analysis of organic growth and space needs and development of a strict city projection, which caps growth in an effort to stay within a $20M construction cost, aligning with available funding for construction. Two deployment options for additions to and renovations within the existing Fairfield Police Headquarters are part of the services, along with cost estimates for each and a final report to the Fairfield City Council.
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Design Achievement This tenant improvement project involves a complete refresh of the Entry Lobby, Servery, Large Dining Room, Small Dining Room, divisible Banquet Rooms, and Outdoor Patios. The studio’s new executive management team asked that several key elements drive the redevelopment of this iconic environment. DLR Group’s design creates a space that embodies the entire breadth of Disney’s comprehensive portfolio. Conveying the importance of the brand’s historical impact up to modern day hits was a key factor in developing the conceptual drivers for this project. Within the context of the original Art Deco style from the 1930’s, DLR Group’s design team provided a timeless palette of elegant finishes and furnishings that serves as the framework for imagery that can evolve over the continued life of the café. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pastoral scene sits comfortably next to rebel tie-fighters and Mickey, the master of all mice. Scope Summary Technical modernization was an important factor. We were asked to thoughtfully integrate needed structural improvements to bring the building up to current structural codes. In conjunction with these improvements special attention was given to expanding seating by maximizing the usable area on the exterior patio with the addition of a retractable shade canopy. Complex upgraded food service equipment needed to insert seamlessly within the footprint of the existing kitchen space. Streamline queueing for a better employee experience was also a high priority for the executive team. And of course, this all needed to be accomplished with minimal disruption to this functioning employee commissary. This fast-tracked project was completed in the summer of 2015, only 4 months from start to finish. DLR Group provided
Design Achievement: Originally constructed in 1965 and modified by additions, College View Elementary School was a maze of spaces, lacking organization and a cohesive identity. DLR Group’s design approach for this modernization completely re-imagined the interiors by removing interior partitions and rerouting circulation to create safe and secure spaces for learning and transitions. Additionally, the main office has been transformed into the single-entry point, making it easier for staff to monitor the school and welcome visitors. A new campus identity was developed where each of the new “neighborhoods” within the building are named after a local higher education institute and branded with collegiate murals. These captivating graphics serve as a reminder of the value of a higher education, further instilling a dream in the young learners of College View. Throughout the entire project, DLR Group ensured that faculty and parents felt that their student’s safety and education were of utmost importance. Scope Summary: Covering 51,000 SF, College View Elementary serves 750 students in grades Pre-K through 5th. The scope of work included the full reconstruction of the classroom spaces including a full seismic upgrade, building systems, safety and security features, and renovation of the administration office. Spaces for learning have been outfitted with innovative technology and flexible student furniture to easily adapt for different learning modalities. Outdoors, the addition of a bus drop-off lane, perimeter fencing, landscaping, and new kindergarten playground provide additional aspects of safety. DLR Group provided architecture, planning, engineering (mechanical, electrical, and structural), and interior design services.
Design Achievement – The County of Ventura needed to address the ongoing challenge of inmate population with chronic medical or mental health needs. Their previous housing capacity was 12-beds, serving a BSCC rated capacity of 823. In order to resolve the critical lack of medical and mental health beds, a needs assessment analysis of the medical and mental health inmate population was performed in 2007, followed by a feasibility study conducted in 2011 to evaluate both issues with the jail system's medical and mental health program and future jail system population growth. In 2013, the County of Ventura Planning Department approved the proposed medical unit expansion, allowing the County to provide more evidence-based programs and cognitive behavioral therapy to the medical and mental health population. Scope Summary – DLR Group, partnered with a program manager, developed prescriptive design criteria documents and oversaw implementation for the new 62,000 SF, 64-bed dedicated medical and mental health treatment facility. This building was specifically designed to serve and treat the medical and mental health inmate population and consists of three distinct functional elements: housing, programming, and clinical. DLR Group provided architecture, planning, and engineering services.
In an effort to attract a higher quality contractor to campus improvement projects at West Los Angeles College, the District bundled 8 projects across the campus with individual project costs ranging from less than $1M to $10M. Total Projects costs are over $20M. This package of project includes infrastructure improvements, modernizations and new construction. Elevator and tower additions and ramps address required accessibility improvements; New and modernization projects respond to evolving technology and programmatic needs. The Assignment was original awarded to Balfour Beatty Construction for a Lease Lease-back delivery, but was later converted to a Design Build delivery process. Because of DLR Group’s prior positive working relationship with both Balfour Beatty Construction and Los Angeles Community College District, they were asked to partner with BBC to further develop and implement the designs of the prior architect as well as provide programming and design for those projects requiring a broader scope of services.
Design Achievement: SKIDATA is a technology firm providing access solutions to the ski and ther high volume industries. Their business is growing rapidly, precipitating the need for a new office. While the new office brings two existing locations under one roof, it is important to bring forward the sense of community established by long-term employees at the former offices. DLR Group hosted a deep dive visioning session with SKIDATA executives and emerging leaders to define their vision for the company's future, and how their work environment can support that vision. Scope Summary: The approximately 15,000 SF office will be completed in late Spring of 2019. Specialty program elements include an "Experience World" with product demos and a centralized control room, and a revenue-generating training room for 20-30 clients.
Understanding the importance of space needs, swing space scenarios and construction sequencing PROJECT RELEVANCE • Long-range planning at the Campus Core • Engaging Campus Community Stakeholders • Updating a Campus Space Inventory • Department Zoning & Space Needs • Space Benchmarking Against State Standards • Construction Sequencing • Swing space Phasing Scenarios • Legislature Bonding Analysis • Campus-wide Implementation Plan: Budgets & Timeline Relevant Team Members: Kate Yurko & Laura Smith Total Project Area: 374,600 GSF Completion Date: 2017
The entire program for this 414,062 SF facility will be constructed as one single building, mainly organized around a central hallway running the entire length of the building. The façade facing the public parking lot and serves as the public entry point is designed to provide a non-hostile appearance and greet the visitor with a civic image. Inmate housing is arranged on both sides of the main hallway with either cell or dormitory housing in a two-level configuration around a dayroom. The dayroom opens up on the exterior end to a secure recreation area, open to the sky. This setup allows inmates in each housing unit extensive access to the outside without having to leave the observation of the corrections officer in charge of the unit. Ample natural light is provided by the end wall windows and extensive skylights. On the second level of the front portion of the building is where Contact Visitation, ICE/EOIR Agency offices and Courtrooms are located. The building complex will be enclosed with a double row of chain link fences, perimeter detection system, site lighting and security patrol road. The project scope includes site development and facility design for a total of 2,268 beds for Adult Male and Female minimum/medium security inmates. The project will be developed in two phases. Phase I will be 1,438 General Population beds, which includes 86 Segregation beds. The inmate housing will include one 360-bed cell style housing units, two 384-bed dormitory style housing units, and one 396-bed cell style housing unit. Phase II will add one 360-bed cell style housing unit and one 384-bed dormitory style housing unit. The infrastructure, site development and facility support spaces will be sized to accommodate the future build-out. The 37 acre site development includes approximately 400 parking stalls. Space is allocated to expand parking by approximately 70 additional spaces in the event that the facility expansion is constructed.
In an effort to consolidate seven departments from various locations, Disney engaged DLR Group to renovate a leased space at 800 Main Street in Burbank. A fresh and minimalist design appeals to the broad user group. New Disney workspace standards are incorporated, including centralized glass fronted offices and open work environments with direct outdoor views. Plenty of outfitted meeting rooms and team collaboration areas are sprinkled throughout the space but the highlight of each floor is the centralized co-working space called the Hub. All teams have access to this alternative work space. It incorporates a coffee bar, multiple seating options including booths, high tables, dining and lounge. By request from several user groups, special attention to Disney branded graphics emphasize the theme: an intersection of adventure and exploration. Specific areas of the space are divided into neighborhoods expressed through distinct graphics on the walls/doors/color with a mixture of animated and live action characters such as adventurous protagonists (Moana) and the lands they explore (Polynesia).
DLR Group was recently selected to be a part of an architectural pool to provide design services for North Orange County CCD’s recently passed $574M bond. Subsequently, DLR Group was awarded the first two assignments related to their bond program: Campus Architect for both Fullerton and Cypress Colleges, with a contract duration of three years at both campuses. We’ve employed two separate teams for these assignments with a common Senior Project Manager for District continuity. Our dual assignment provides the District with efficiencies and assures campus parity. Using their current master plan as a foundation, DLR Group is holding community and campus forums to solicit feedback on what will be an updated project priority list. We are also assisting the District with State funding challenges given the State chancellor’s office changes to the funding calendar from a twelve to a twenty-four month cycle, as part of the new restrictions on FFP submission requirements. During the course of our assignments as Campus Architect, our scope will range from long term vision to daily coordination including: Outreach and Communication; Long Term Planning; Project Development; Project Design and Operations. These tasks will be performed in collaboration with senior college and/or district management staff, facilities staff, faculty, students and community representatives. The purpose and role of the Campus Architect will be to validate the FMP, develop a prioritized project list, and formulate a comprehensive logistics plan that addresses multiple scenarios for ultimate flexibility in program development.
Design Achievement - Atlantic Square repositions an existing shopping center located east of Los Angeles that invites new dining and shopping options to the surrounding neighborhood as well as an adjacent college. As part of the design process DLR Group and the client invited a select group of East Los Angeles College School of Architecture students to engage in an interactive and engaging design workshop to help vision the project. This community engagement exercise allowed the project team and students to focus on weaving a convergence of experiences rooted on heritage, hospitality and artful innovation that highlights the people of Monterrey Park and ELAC communities. DLR Group’s design strips down and emphasizes a Southern California naturally casual lifestyle with native landscaping and strategically placed trellises that are infused by contextual and cultural interventions that brings a crafted and authentic sensibility to the project. The design highlights the predominately Asian and Latinx communities surrounding the site by reimagining the northern half of the project with a new appealing and diverse food hall marketplace, which features a converted shipping container and unique food trucks, and is supported by a new drive through restaurant and building creating a new foodie destination and student hangout. The vision for Atlantic Square is to create a unique style and character that promotes a community feel and evokes a strong sense of place through culturally specific architecture that relates to the contextual forces that inform the design. For example, the moderate climate and proximity to the college that inspired the new large plaza, that creates an enriched lifestyle of connection and a pedestrian friendly environment that encourages exploration and invites lingering and community. Scope Summary - Spanning 21,768 SF of in east Los angeles, Atlantic Square is a melting pot of mixed-uses and cultures. The project includes flexible mixed-use assets including a 15,202 SF food and beverage plaza, 1,980 SF proposed pad 1 retail cafe, and 4,586 SF pad 2 of proposed mixed-use. DLR Group used alternate designs such as shipping containers and stationary buses in the Atlantic Square design to create a fun and unique space to attract people to enjoy the otherwise aging and dying site. Because ELAC feeds into this project site, the practical project plan includes a large open area will be the space for pop ups, outdoor dining, performance area and all around student hang out spot. DLR Group is providing architectural design services.
West Valley College, situated in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, has a picturesque campus and an extensive array of existing athletic sports facilities and fields. The campus has a history of athletic excellence and top-notch coaches with Olympic histories. DLR Group \| Kwan Henmi’s design for the Softball Complex Project will be the first project in a planned series of renovations to athletic facilities across the campus. The new facility for softball will provide a best-in-class synthetic turf primary field, combined player dugout and locker rooms for player support, a new covered batting cage for training and spectator seating for 500 fans. The design is characterized by a crisp cladding of phenolic panels installed as a rainscreen. This envelope will provide a durable, hard wearing exterior which will require minimal maintenance for many years. The batting cages, with a long span roof supported by redwood Glu-lam beams will also be a highlight of the new facilities and will allow player training in all weather conditions. DLR Group \| Kwan Henmi is coordinating with regulatory agencies DSA, OPSC and Fire for approvals. The new complex will provide robust support for on-campus student athletes as well as creating a location which can be rented by and used by visiting professional and collegiate teams. The project scope consists of demolition of the existing softball fields. In their place, the project will be constructing a new synthetic turf primary field, a new clay practice field, dugout/locker rooms for home and visiting teams, a new 2 story press box, new spectator seating for 500 fans and a new covered batting cage structure with 4 tunnels. The structures are all Type VB construction. Most are light wood framing with plywood shear walls. The batting cage will be a long span structure with Glu-lam beams and steel columns.
Design Achievement - Across the United States, leading developers are exploring alternative construction methods such as mass timber, producing new asset classes with compelling delivery and ROI models. The advent of tenant demand for aesthetic connections to the natural environment – or biophilia – and the proof of its benefits is another key driver in this exploration. Tishman Speyer engaged DLR Group to assess the viability of timber in a construction typology study for their western US office market. DLR Group worked with a team of multi-disciplinary experts to design a building concept that both maximizes the environmental and health benefits of heavy timber, and optimizes construction details and systems integration to speed construction and reduce costs. The design is an understated, elemental expression of raw materials: rock and tree. The simple formal expression of the timber structure is accentuated by a rhythmic composition of exterior stone and glass panels. Technically, the building is the result of rigorous structural and infrastructural systems optimization, maximization of floor plate efficiencies, and a disciplined, performance-driven simplification of component assemblies. Rich wooden interiors, high-performance enclosure systems, and state-of-the-art technology integration and distribution drive a tech-enriched user experience centered on human health and wellbeing. Scope Summary - With a total area of 191,000 SF, plus two levels of underground parking, the program consists of six stories of office over one story of retail. A key objective of the study was establishing an independent cost comparison between timber with concrete core, timber with steel core, and concrete frame buildings with the same programmatic specifications. Modeling the three options showed them to be cost competitive, with less than 1% variation across the group. The primary contributors to this cost competitiveness were advances in construction technology and the relative availability of materials in the western US, which drove a forecasted four-month - or 20% - reduction in the construction schedule. This speed to market is another attractive factor for pro-forma driven developers. The building was designed to comply with Type IV-HT per the 2016 IBC, California's Title 24, and was designed to LEED Silver minimum, with several additional optional performance enhancements. DLR Group provided conceptual architecture, engineering, and high performance design consulting, in partnership with Berger Partnership (Landscape Architecture), StructureCraft (Manufacturing), and MATT Construction (Cost Analysis).
Design Achievement: The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District values an educational environment that motivates students to put their best foot forward as such they wanted to provide an opportunity for cross collaboration with a local University. Utilizing surplus District property at an old Elementary School, Palos Verdes Peninsula USD set out to retrofit and upgrade the existing building to provide a new state of the art Marine Biology Center in conjunction with their university partner. DLR Group’s design achieves the district’s vision by seismically rehabilitating the existing building as well as bringing all the existing outdated mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems to conform to current building code standards. The new state of the art marine labs has three primary program elements - lab space with large tanks, a flex lab, and a classroom/lecture area. Additionally, the Marine lab also has a large glass operable wall to combine it with the classroom/lecture area to make the space available to multiple groups at one time as well as provide easy transition from learning to application. These elements can be combined to optimize the integral nature of lab/lecture education for both the district’s high school students and higher education institutions. DLR Group’s thoughtful design aligns with Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District’s vision to inspire all students to strive for academic excellence.? Scope Summary:? The renovated 6,700 SF Marine Science Lab project will serve students all over the Palos Verdes Peninsula including those from a local University.? Located adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, the building provides a unique opportunity to bring a new Career and Technical Educational pathway to District students. DLR Group seismically retrofitted and updated all the interior systems to comply with current 2019 building codes to ensure the facility provides a safe learning environment in an area that is a high fire and seismic risk hazard.  DLR Group won this project in June of 2019 and is on schedule to complete the labs by the end of 2023. DLR Group provided master planning, programming, architecture, engineering, and interior design services.
Design Achievement - Lakewood Center Repositioning is the reimagining of a regional mall in Southern California that includes the uncovering of the 1950’s era open air center and the development of a residential driven urban village. DLR Group was invited to participate in a design competition with the ambition to build a multi-generational destination neighborhood center to replace the underutilized existing center and meet the needs of the of its culturally and ethnically diverse community of residents. DLR Group’s design is centered around an urban framework connected to a suburban scale community by creating a trail-oriented neighborhood village. DLR Group’s vision of reconnecting the heart of Lakewood was to ask, “Where is the lake, and where are the woods?” This mantra refers to the “Lake” as the activated zone, and the “Woods” as the rested elements connecting the human experience to the landscape with a wellness approach. Heavily focused on connecting to the surrounding community, all of the components in the mixed-use plan are interwoven through paths and activated by nodes. Lakewood Center is designed to expand and grow over time through a series of curated experiences centered on creating an enhanced social experience while weaving back into the surrounding through connected livability of the village. Scope Summary - The Lakewood Center redesign creates a sustainable village and a resilient model for development that includes office, retail, residential, and entertainment uses. The Lakewood renovation design addresses three major challenges. The first is to renovate a dated and enclosed regional mall to meet the needs and demands of today’s, larger, retail environment. Then, our challenge became to create a mixed-use environment that seamlessly incorporates workplace and residential components. Lastly, the design challenge is to create a phased plan that allowed manageable growth. DLR Group developed a plan that strategically placed growth starting from the heart of the project and growing outwards. We created residential components in layers, starting from the center. As part of the overarching plan on the over 1 million SF site, the Lakewood Center includes 755 residential units and 109 hotel keys. DLR Group’s design response includes a gradual phased plan from 0-15 years depicting the growth of the Lakewood center to the Lakewood community. DLR Group provided concept design services.
Design Achievement - On the corner of H and Inyo Streets in Fresno, California, developer TF Investments has engaged DLR Group to realize a vision of creating a hub of 24-hour activity for downtown Fresno. The site is directly across the street from Chukchansi Park baseball stadium and just down Inyo Street from the Fresno Convention Center. This mixed-use development will offer a new opportunity to live in downtown Fresno and more importantly a new place to call home in downtown Fresno, a new “there-there.” DLR Group’s design creates street front activities and a living alley that builds on the buzz of that activity with a courtyard full of dining and drinking. The culmination of this activity hub is a rooftop club with views of the baseball diamond and the downtown skyline. The massing of the design respects the historic rhythm of the block, and addresses the need for housing in the area, both market rate and affordable. This quiet industrial corner of the city will soon be a vibrant new neighborhood center. Scope Summary - H & Inyo drives residential density through 190,000 SF of housing over six stories. There are 195 units in 6 different unit types. The project also has 26,000 SF of restaurants and clubs to energize the block. Parking is provided in a two-story podium accessed from the alley and screened from the street by residential. The project is planned for a 2021 kickoff and projected completion date of late 2023. DLR Group is providing planning and architecture services.
DLR Group assisted the Culver City Unified School District with the development of a Facilities Master Plan and Educational Specifications that describe facility needs at each of the District’s nine campuses and support facilities, and establish a road-map to the educational goals of the District. We began the process by establishing the “Guiding Principles” for design, which outlined the ‘filter’ that all decisions associated with the Master Plan were weighed against. Multiple direct outreach efforts were engaged throughout the development of the Master Plan, including social media interactions, web surveys, campus site committee workshops, and Board input sessions. The community was extensively engaged in the master planning process through a series of Site Committee meetings, evening Community Forums, and on-line surveys. Along with the facility condition assessment, a comprehensive ‘educational adequacy’ assessment was conducted for each campus. The District’s desire to move toward Next Generation Learning Environments is driving how the existing facilities might be altered and utilized. This direction guided the development of the Educational Specifications. DLR Group created a custom web-based master planning process that allows the team to develop the content in real-time with direct input and feedback from community participants along the way. The campus Master Plans are created in a Google Map, interactive format allowing participants to zoom in and out and click on the identifier tags which explain the various components of that specific campus Master Plan. There is also a direct link to cost information, campus assessments, educational adequacy and capacity information. Campuses were added to the web site as they were completed. The interactive website is a living document that will require updates and re-interpretations as the District’s needs change and become more clearly refined. The campus transformations envisioned by this document to support “next generation” learning are forward-thinking and will benefit Culver City USD students for generations to come. The Integrated Energy Master Plan’s Estimated Cost Saving Analysis interactive dashboard empowers the CBO to see the existing annual utility costs and then look at the total annual estimated cost savings by engaging with the dashboard. The resulting Master Plan is a highly customized document that realistically outlines their needs and desires setting the course for the implementation of the strategies through a successful bond measure.
Through an internal design competition, DLR Group explored how to reimagine underutilized big-box mall sites to create more equitable, sustainable, and resilient communities. Now we’re sharing our process through an interactive white paper. In the wake of a global pandemic, widespread demands for racial justice, and increasing climate vulnerability, we see an opportunity to repurpose underutilized malls to improve community health, resiliency, and equity. To explore how context, history, and stakeholder priorities can lead to more values-driven and impactful design solutions, we set out to prove this hypothesis through a design competition. We selected an underutilized big-box site near one of our offices that experiences economic, social, and environmental vulnerabilities: the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Los Angeles. We challenged integrated design teams to repurpose the site into a multi-use project that drew from diverse expertise across DLR Group, creatively addressing the economic, social, and environmental challenges surrounding the site. Six teams included members with diverse market expertise, and were required to address climate risk, equity, community needs, and include at least three functions in their design solution. The influence of the myriad of employee owners and their respective fields and backgrounds offered perspectives that expanded the possibilities of how to repurpose the site. DLR Group design teams participated in workshops with DLR Group experts, developed designs, and presented to a jury of outside experts. Teams began by attending a GIS workshop to engage in critical conversations about the site’s built, human, economic, and ecological context. Armed with contextual information and stakeholder perspectives, teams began envisioning new futures for the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza site. After a rapid two weeks of designing, teams presented at an event to a panel of outside judges. The results of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Design Competition manifested into a roadmap for engaging the community and design teams in how to transform big-box properties and redevelopments. DLR Group turned the process and lessons learned into an interactive blueprint for this approach. We hope this white paper provides a road map for a more holistic, research-informed development process that emphasizes community health. DLR Group provided concept design services as part of an internal design competition. http://view.ceros.com/dlr-group/thinking-outside-the-big-box/p/1
Design Achievement: This confidential entertainment company’s legal team will enjoy working in this newly renovated progressive legal office environment. DLR Group’s design achieves a modern and functional legal office with areas throughout for conversation and collaboration between employees and clients. The new renovation provides a variety of workspaces for paralegals and executives while shrinking the private office footprint. The change in layout creates opportunities for group and individual focused work. Open ceilings, concrete floors, custom graphics, and specialty decorative light fixtures add to the contemporary feel of the office. Public spaces and corridors are decorated with recognizable character artwork of this entertainment company connects clients and employees to memories of wonder and joy from their youth. Attention to detail with warm and rich jewel tones throughout the three floors lighten the office mood and add to the elevated office environment. Employees will enjoy the many amenity spaces including the kitchen in the breakroom, individual pantries, and the outdoor patio. Private offices along the exterior of the office allow natural light into the interior through glazed glass windows. This beautiful and professional legal office provides a state-of-the-art experience for clientele. Scope Summary: This 90,000 SF office provides a multitude of work spaces for the 400 legal team’s employees. Key program spaces include private offices, phone rooms, huddle rooms, small and large conference rooms, a legal library, large breakroom with kitchen amenities, small pantries, and an outdoor patio. DLR Group provided interior design and experiential graphic design services.
Design Achievement - Located on the same property as the revered Hollywood Palladium music venue, the Palladium residential towers is composed of two towers in the heart of Los Angeles, California. The towers include a 32-story west tower facing Argyle Avenue, and a 31-story east tower facing El Centro Avenue. An integrated 6-story podium connects the two towers, with two levels of below grade parking at the west tower and three levels of above grade parking at the east. DLR Group’s design draws inspiration from the historic Palladium venue marquee, as well as the expansive grid of the city of Los Angeles, for the two high rises towering over the iconic area in the center of Hollywood. The design stands out in the area through the exterior white grid systems, reflecting that of the city itself, with balconies that overlook the scenic views. The restaurant at the ground floor is accompanied by retail and office spaces nearby. The towers include multiple amenity spaces, including occupied roof decks for resident leisure. Amenity spaces also include lounges, entertainment rooms, fitness centers, swimming pools, kitchens, dining spaces, and co-working spaces. Scope Summary - Spanning over 1.4 million SF, Palladium residential towers includes 731 residential units, residential amenity spaces, a 6-story retail podium, and work spaces. The plan includes landscaping and green areas to take the user on an experience that offers more than the city. Ground level façade feels more intimate and more pedestrian scale, reflecting a much warmer palette than the grid above. The garage is screened to work with rest of building design. There is an immense amount of exterior amenity space, including the level 1 public plaza that is shared with historic venue for queuing. The alleyway is used as a discrete artist escape route from street so that artist can travel to and from the green room privately. The materiality of the building includes metal panels, window walls, and exposed concrete to accentuate the high rise and add to the Los Angeles skyline. DLR Group provided architecture services.
Design Achievement - Hub Berkeley is a student housing development in Berkeley, California that aims create an elegant piece of architecture that pays homage to its context through materiality and detail. The project embraces the history and soul of the community’s cultural revolution, progress, love and continual change. DLR Group’s design creates a duality that reflects a stoic and sophisticated exterior and a rebellious and vibrant interior. The project maintains and enhances the vibrancy of the retail experience on Center St. while the façade takes cues in materiality and scale from the existing historic building adjacent to the site. The prominent corner tower takes on a more playful fenestration pattern while incorporating cementitious materials that reflect that of Spanish colonial tiles found on the existing building on the site and within the surrounding context. Hub at Berkeley serves as a gateway to the University and overlooks the beautiful campus of Berkeley, the surrounding downtown, and gives upper level views to the magnificent bay to the west. Scope Summary - Hub Berkeley is a student focused housing development located adjacent to campus at the prominent corner of Oxford St. and Center St. The 17-story development includes units ranging in size from micro to 5-bedroom units, ground floor retail space along Center St., a lobby and coffee bar at the corner and along Oxford St., a spacious bike room, a parking garage with an automated parking stacking system, a new parklet activating the corner, a large fitness center, a large outdoor deck on level 12 with extensive landscaping, and a club lounge and deck on level 17. The proposed streetscape design intends to maintain the existing character and vibrancy along both Oxford and Center Streets. The mature, existing Chinese Hackberries that line Center St. will be protected to remain. New site furnishings, such as additional bike parking and new freestanding planters, will be provided. DLR Group provided architecture services.
** NDA in place, label as Confidential Technology Company. ** Design Achievement- This Confidential Technology Company, a web infrastructure and security company, was looking to rebrand and reinvent a number of its current offices following the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders. With a goal to draw employees back into the workplace while keeping an unprecedented level of flexibility, DLR Group’s design is reimagining the office to be something totally new: a flashpoint for connection. Like a lighthouse is a symbol of homecoming and safety, so too will this new space be. Employees will return to a place better than they remembered it with all the comforts of home. This new workplace will include a coffee shop, bike storage space with a spa-like locker room, music room, a rooftop deck, a community spaces for events or mingling, as well as plenty of meeting and focus spaces to collaborative or solo work. Infusing principles of comfort and a curated experience rooted in hospitality design, this client's new space brings employee wellbeing to the forefront. With an enormous plethora of options in which to complete their work, employees can choose their own adventure every day to discover which environment suits their current task best. Scope Summary- The original scope for this multi-office tenant improvement includes renovations to the 65,854 SF San Francisco office and 34,000 SF London office. Initial ideas examined a high intervention office and medium intervention options for the San Francisco office to make it a more collaborative and open work environment. DLR Group provided conceptual design services and is now providing interior design and architectural services.
Please contact Workplace NMM before any Marketing use Design Achievement – As streaming entertainment becomes more engrained in our everyday, this Undisclosed Tech Company selected the new heart of the entertainment capital of the world, Culver City, California, as the location of their next campus. DLR Group’s conceptual design harnesses the company’s brand identity and infuses it throughout exterior and interior spaces; creating environments for ideas to mature, spaces that restore, and experiences to let the magic of living happen. The overall structure is a simple, yet dynamic form focused on detailed elegance for a timeless design. The building becomes a backdrop to celebrate the creative ideas that stream from it, changing with the technology and content of the future. A milky ceramic frit shell on the outside – a transparent hub of innovation on the inside – creates a sense of intrigue and anticipation for what’s next. The future of workspace is creating environments where people want to be. A multitude of opportunities for teams to curate their own custom experience are programmed throughout the campus; magnet spaces like cafes, lounge seating areas, micro-pantries, and outdoor gathering areas offer options to connect, collaborate, and share ideas. Bridges, a central courtyard, and vertical connections create people movement between the buildings because where people interact, ideas abound. Scope Summary – The new campus addition will feature approximately 560,000 SF of world class creative tech office space supporting 1,670 employees in the company’s multiple entertainment divisions. The site layout capitalizes on its location cornered by three prominent boulevards. The building will be a creative oasis and by proxy an extension of the adjacent promenade for the newly developed transit hub. A rooftop park and interior courtyard terrace celebrate the mild climate in Southern California and allows for work to happen wherever. Two jurisdictions (Culver City and Los Angeles) divide the parcel requiring the project to be delivered in two phases: Phase 1 will include 143,940 sf of built area, and 13,855 sf of terrace space, while Phase 2 will deliver 375,000 sf of built area and 24,920 SF of terrace space. DLR Group provided conceptual architectural and interior services.
Narrative DLR Group’s goal for developing Design Build Bridging Documents is to minimize risk and maximize opportunities and benefits for the client by assembling a comprehensive package for the future Design Build team. We have developed Project Criteria/Bridging Documents for a number of school districts including for LAUSD Roosevelt HS. DLR Group has a team of subject matter experts to lead each aspect of the work: structural engineers to perform seismic assessments, ALEP-certified educational planners to develop the program, and CASp experts to perform ADA assessments. Coordination and consultation with the Design Manager and stakeholders is an essential step to achieve a comprehensive set of bridging documents. Confirmation of project requirements, field verifications, additional testing, civil design, phasing, interim housing plans, programmatic analysis, space programming, and seismic analysis findings must all be reviewed with the Design Manager as the documents are being developed. Below are the various components of our bridging documents completed for Roosevelt High School. The scope of work and exact deliverables can very widely for Bridging Documents. In some cases, clients want a site analysis and educational specifications from which the design builder will develop the entire project. In a busy or volatile construction market, this may be more desirable to a design build team as it allows them greater control over the design and cost. In other cases, the bridging documents are completed through schematic design. DLR Group has experience with the full range of deliverables and has the in-house experts to execute any level desired by the client.
Hesperia High School, located in the center of Hesperia, is a part of the Hesperia Unified School District and serves a student population of approximately 2000 students. Currently, it is the only high school in the district without a performance space of this scale and stature. The Hesperia High School Community Center, specifically geared toward filling an observed deficiency in the campus fabric, faced a unique design challenge for a building located on a high school campus. The program requirements for the building established that there would need to be a component that served the needs of the community in a variety of ways in tandem with the typical functions of a high school performing arts MPR space. This duality of ownership in the building’s occupancy created an opportunity for the design team to create intersections between the two populations, while also satisfying specific security constraints. The design looks to the landscape for inspiration in the creation of form and flow, referencing the Mojave river to the south and the regional “mesa” flat top mountains to define the look and feel of the masses and voids. The river directly impacts the circulation and is meant to flow through the lobby directly connecting the student entrance and the community entrance. This signifies the equity between the two parties in the building and reinforces an ethos of coexistence that will ensure visibility for the theater program and access to much needed resources for the community. The building stretches along the North-South axis just South of the sports complex and can create a flagship building that further connects the community and the school campus. In doing such, the building’s campus side and community side must both serve as an engaging portal into something special. The scope for the new multi-purpose building was defined by numerous inputs within the school district as well as the greater Hesperia community. The project is to provide the Hesperia High School campus with room for band and choral practice, a large performance space for musical and theatrical performances, a black box theater, support spaces such as construction areas and a concessions space, and a community resource center comprised of flexible office and conference spaces. Flexibility is one of the key factors in the design of the building. Ensuring spaces can function in a multitude of ways was at the forefront of laying out a flexible performance area that would remain completely accessible. Flexibility is also found in the community resource center’s adjustable spaces, which also remain a secure portion of the building to better accommodate the school and community needs separately.
Huawei Guian Data Center project was developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. The project is located in Guian New District, Guizhou Province, Southwest of China. The project is divided into three plots A, B, and C.=DLR Group undertakes the architectural design and landscape design of plot A. as well as Interior design, lighting design, and wayfinding design, etc. The scope of work including conceptual design, SD , DD phase and CD review. Plot A total GFA is 66,975 sqm. Including a 27157 sqm basement for parking. The project includes ten staff dormitories ,four teaching buildings and one service facilities. In addition, DLR Group has undertaken the facade design of four of the data centers. The site for the project has a large height difference, the shape of the site is long and narrow, and one side is facing the river. The design combines the terrain and rationally divides the terraces and steps to form a very rich architectural space. At the same time, the project adopts the Prague-themed facade design , The facade material is made of sandstone and plaster with different colors, the roof is made of warm-toned terracotta, which reproduces the elegant facade, delicate touch and space experience of European towns. The project has now completed all the design work and will complete all the facade construction by the end of 2020.
Immediately adjacent to current construction of Huawei Data Centre in Guian District of Guizhou Province, Huawei has set another design competition for their Global Command Centre. While currently being constructed Huawei Data Centre reflects the urban fabric of Prague, Czech Republic, the newly proposed Huawei Global Command Centre reflects the urban fabric of Stockholm, Sweden. At early masterplan stage, the design team have researched and analyzed historic and modern Stockholm to understand its urban fabric and how the city has evolved with time. From creating man-made islands with its waterways and bridges, to positioning primary and secondary city nodes with connectivity and proper building typology. Submitted masterplan and concept design proposal of “Stockholm in Time” illustrates not only vernacular style and city planning yet also modern language of what the city has become over centuries. Key programme includes Command Centre of 7,300 sqm, Dormitory of 48,500 sqm, Office of 26,000 sqm, Retail & Support Facility of 10,002 sqm. One of many challenge was ensuring a constant water level with proposal of viable water supply-line for both Huawei Development sites and its water control systems. Due to COVID 19, we the review and award have been delayed until further notice. Design Brief Site Area : 67,192 sqm Total GFA : 131,802 sqm Approx. Above Ground GFA : 91,802 sqm Approx. Below Ground GFA : 40,000 sqm FAR : 1.36 Site Coverage : 33% Green Coverage : 14%
00-80201-09_Qingdao COSCO Mariners College COSCO Shipping Qingdao West Coast Mariner’s College project has been appointed through PQ/SoQ stage for concept and schematic design. Early concept design stage was a collaboration with US design team consisting of Higher Education leadership (Stuart Rothenberger, Krisan Osterby, Saoji Yogesh, Jaclynn Eckhardt) along with our Shanghai studio. Located in Qingdao, PRC, this magnificent site backs the Doshisha boulder mountains while fronting the Yellow Sea to the east. And with COSCO industry deeply rooted in commercial shipping, the concept of “bow wave” has been a strong design element from an early masterplan through architectural concept and current schematic design stage. This refurbishment and expansion project include existing campus building façade and re-planning along with new-build requirements of COSCO mariner’s museum, faculty/student/staff dormitory, canteen, classroom, auditorium, library, mechanical training, and gymnasium. Needless to say, the most difficult aspect of this project would have to be construction completion timeline of September. 2021. This would only allow the project to complete SD, DD, CD, and construction in less than a year. Design Brief Site Area : 544,627 sqm Total GFA : 368,900 sqm Existing Education & Training_91,000 sqm (Faculty Dormitory, Internal Mariner Dormitory, External Mariner Dormitory, Admin. Office, Building of Navigation, Building of Marine Engine, Staff & Mariner’s Canteen) New-build Education & Training_116,619 sqm (Student Canteen, Activity Centre, Library, Mechanical Training, Student Training) Leadership Training_32,272 sqm (Leadership, Training Centre, Communications Centre) Living & Service_34,144 sqm (Gym, Condominium, Canteen)
Design Achievement – The vision for this Residential Development is to give modern living the benefits of traditional housing. The Fareej structure of Emirati housing is a great example of this which has been diluted through modern living. This building will use this strength by grouping apartments around large “Meyadeen Terraces” for outdoor cooking and gathering set around a pool to allow a community of about 40-50 people to come together. This space will be the foundation of the Fareej structure creating a destination where residents are no longer anonymous. The central circulation space will serve as the Sikka and also allow for visibility around the community. Additional characteristic of this development include small break-out spaces near the lifts to serve as “Barahaat Decks.” The units themselves have recessed balconies that provide private outdoor space in the spirit of the traditional courtyard. Scope Summary – The project is composed of 53,820 SF, GFA of 505,903 SF 4 Basement + G + 9 Floors. The Residential Development will utilize modern technology in the form of air-conditioning, but the built form will reduce the load on this system's traditional passive methods. The deep recesses of the façade will create a self-shading structure that reduces radiant heat gain. The central atrium space creates a more socially active building, but it also creates a Wind-Tower for the retail environment at the base. High-tech software will be employed to manage the relationship between the mechanical and natural solutions. DLR Group provided planning and design services.
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Project _ Site Sanjiagang, Pudong District,Shanghai. To the east of the project site is a 1500 keys hotel developed by Greenland Group. Jiushun Hotel is on the west side (the specific information has not been confirmed yet) Both hotels opened mostly in early 2019 The project site is 7.5 km away from PVG and 12 km away from Disney Shanghai Site Area : 82,497.9 sqm FAR : 0.9 Building Height Limit : 45m GFA : 123,058 Hotel Part_ Guestroom Guestroom :Keys: 500 (T.B.D, The operator mentioned that the net area of this room is about 50 sqm) Single bay / Suite:?(T.B.D, It needs to be set up according to the facility program provided by the operator) Hotel Part_Convention Center 300 seats lecture halls Ballroom(50m*60m) conference room(100 sqm /room, 10 rooms) Hotel Part_Recreation KTV, Dance Hall, SPA, Executive Lounge, Golf Driving Range Hotel Part_Workstation(Villa),the equivalent of a resort part of the hotel GBA: 5300sqm (180~250sqm, 20villas, 300sqm, club house) Exhibition, GBA: 3000sqm (500~600sqm/room, 5~6rooms). Lifestyle: GBA:6000 sqm F&B, Retail, Kids playground, Pets garden,etc
Situated in southern part of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong and China border, Shenzhen Institute of Design and Innovation is yet another Higher Education PQ stage competition project designed by the team in the US along with Shanghai Office. Extremely challenging site with an approximate overall climb & fall of near 80 meters, understanding existing topography to suffice design requirements stood as primary task to be resolved. The 4 key functions consisting of Perform, Live, Entertain, and Learn was paired with single multilevel spine with link bridges as leading design element. The final masterplan site interpretation ensures transdisciplinary and creative design occurring among students and faculty for all academic programs. The proposed design provides a green, sustainable campus that integrates programming, architecture, landscape, circulation, and infrastructure in an intensive and economical way. Again, Shanghai Design would like to express genuine appreciation to Higher Education team for yet another incredible partnership and effort to complete this submission. Submitted Design Narrative "The SIDI Design Vision promotes the City as a global center for innovation. The Master Plan site interpretation ensures transdisciplinary and design thinking occurs among students and faculty for all academic programs. Interconnected teaching buildings, exhibition hall, auditorium, library, sports hall, and dormitories produce a rich entrepreneurial environment. The proposed design provides a green, sustainable campus that integrates programming, architecture, landscape, circulation, and infrastructure in an intensive and economical way. It takes full advantage of existing urban development in the South Campus and environmental conditions in the North Campus to ensure student creativity, feasible development, and flexible expansion. Practice-focused collaboration in the South Campus occurs between buildings along an interactive, climate protected, central pedestrian circulation spine. This north/south campus axis and primary pathway occurs on multiple levels to take advantage of the dramatic topography, inspiring views, and numerous points of program access. Traditional scholastic spaces have been replaced by vibrant hubs for study, research, invention, and exploration. Service area for operations and maintenance logistics are out of sight, below the central spine. The pathway links the campus heart with North Campus landscape nodes, graduate workshops, and existing small lakes. Indoor and outdoor maker spaces showcase student activity. They provide recreation, inspiration, and shared space for neighboring schools. The urban interface between SIDI and surrounding streets promotes high visibility and easy access to hands-on learning. An east/west ceremonial promenade connects the campus main entry with the Upper Lake. Along it’s route of stepping plazas and fountains, visitors can see workshops and community areas where students live, learn, and work together. At the terminus, the promenade looks east to the natural beauty of water, forest and ridgelines. It also looks back to the west to survey campus activity. In a similar way, the campus design appropriately interfaces both the city and the natural context. The campus main entry, access to below ground parking, shared public spaces, and high-use programs are located on the urbanized sides of the campus - along city streets that are planned for traffic improvement. As the campus moves east and uphill of the central spine, programs are personal and intensive, smaller-scaled, residential, and embraced by natural landscaping, forested hills, and lakes." Key programme includes: Student Housing of 67,000 sqm, Classroom of 47,800 sqm, Shops(fabrication/media/storage)of 31,300 sqm, Cohort studios of 17200 sqm. Design Brief Site Area: 365,000 sqm Approx.FAR: 0.806 Total GFA: 319,252 sqm Covered Outdoor Open Space: 14,012 sqm Below Ground Area: 25,000 sqm Above Ground Area: 280,240 sqm
Shenzhen Conservatory of Music is yet another PQ design pack submitted on September. 11th for a short listing of an international design competition in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, PRC. Design team consisting of Higher Education leadership (Stuart Rothenberger, Krisan Osterby, Saoji Yogesh, Benjamin Strain, Mario Cipresso, Jaclynn Eckhardt) along with Jose Sanchez, Chayanon Jomvinya, Huy Le, Andrew Herrera, Dennis Bree, and the Shanghai team, we were able to deliver our preliminary concept design in approximately 10 days for submission. Thank you everyone for all your amazing works and collaboration and will update our submission results once released. Project and Concept Narrative Below, The Shenzen Conservatory of Music design concept is inspired by the power of the ensemble to create a rich and transformational experience – in music, learning, and life. The interplay between buildings and landscape is inspired by the power of music to harmonize and connect people, experience, and place. The resulting campus elements provide an institution of the highest quality that optimizes four interrelated campus neighborhoods – co-created and multipurpose campus quads for Learning, Living, Playing and Performing. Instrumental, vocal, and ambient music happens everywhere. A campus ceremonial gateway is anchored by signature concert halls. Sports and recreation venues shield the campus from highway noise and disruption. A residential quad for faculty and students has active physical bridges to the Learning and Playing Quads and inspirational visual bridges that face inward to the performance plaza and outward to the reservoir, parkland, and forested hills. An academic quad houses formal teaching spaces. The continuous thread of three landscape elements - water, plaza and green roof – unifies the ensemble. Together, these form a pedestrian promenade: a beautiful spine that flows from the campus ceremonial gateway to the reservoir overlook. Transforming the existing drainage channel to a model of sustainability and design, the promenade guides campus wayfinding and reflects the signature and major chord of the campus ensemble as people move back and forth day-in and day-out, year round. As each ensemble element has a different voice, the promenade evokes the campus physical signature from beginning to end. Design Brief Summary Site Area : 73,777 sqm Total GFA : 129,722 sqm Campus Buildings 85,522 sqm : teaching complex, experimental practice studio, library, sports complex building, dining hall, administrative offices, faculty dormitory, college dormitory Performance Buildings 21,500 sqm : 700 seat theatre, 500 seat concert hall, 200 seat rehearsal hall Support & Services 24,700 sqm : MEP, BoH, Carpark, Civil Defense and etc… Project Investment : CNY(RMB) 1,750,000,000
Part of the larger movement to celebrate socialism with Chinese characteristics, city of Shenzhen has decided to development an International Performance Centre as major new public cultural facilities. The International Performance Center, under this background, becomes an urgent need for Futian CBD that could end the lack of large-scale performance centers and high-end theaters, provide world-class high-quality cultural facilities for Futian CBD. Site is positioned south of Xiangmi Lake and is part of a triangular grand masterplan with Shenzhen Finance Cultural Centre as the equal half to the west and the main project development of Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall at centre. In Macro scale, project site is to connect the 2 natural elements through green corridor between Xiangmi Lake to the north and the Shenzhen Golf Club to the south. Architectural concept of “WEAVE” connects deep into an old fishing village of Shenzhen. Fluid and organic form of the architectural block with floating metal mesh façade mimics that of a traditional Chinese casting net as it is thrown into the sea. This project has been intensely developed in collaboration with our Cultural & Performing Arts leader Paul Westlake, Carol Duke and our Shanghai Studio in a span of merely 5 days for PQ_SoQ Design Submission. Although unsuccessful in making the short list for an International Design Competition, we believe this experience will place itself as a strong milestone in positioning our DLR Group name value here in PRC. Design Brief Site Area : 15,000 sqm Total GFA : 53,000 sqm Above Ground GFA : 33,000 sqm FAR : 2.2 Project Investment : CNY (RMB) 2,100,000,000
Design Achievement - This new headquarters office establishes a new sculptural landmark and architectural identity for Union Properties Developers. DLR Group’s design focuses on Union Properties’ primary goal of designing a climate responsive building in the Dubai desert that meets the highest sustainability standards. The building invites employees and visitors through a garden landscape that leads to vehicle drop-off and parking, sheltered by an open-air structure. Building users are also directed up through a grand staircase connecting the street level to the main entry courtyard. Office spaces are organized around a central circulation core and open social stairway. Shared amenities and meeting spaces stack vertically through the building, connecting multiple floors and providing a range of opportunities for informal activities, interactions, and easy access to outdoor terraces. A flexible, open office layout will provide views and daylighting for all occupied spaces, meeting the needs of Union Properties while providing adaptability for future growth. The building expression is informed by a response to tropical desert climate conditions. An east-west orientation leverages the longer north and south facades with steeper sun angles that can be more easily shaded. A series of cascading, planted terraces offer maximum views and access to nature. The introduction of biophilia through living systems to the user experience of the spaces, the building functions in a manner that will positively impact human physiology and well-being. Scope Summary - The building is a 10,000 square meter structure, composed of steel and cast-in-place concrete floor slabs. Exterior materials include pre-cast or stone sun shading on the south and perforated steel plate shades on both the west and east sides. These facade elements provide a harder edge protecting the building from Dubai’s harsher weather, while floor plates extend to the north creating sculpted ceiling planes above the outdoor roof terraces. The interior material palette tells a story of wood, stone, and glass. In addition to passive sustainable strategies embedded in the building orientation and massing, which reduce building energy consumption and hence carbon emissions, there is a comprehensive set of LEED strategies. They include a narrow floor plate to increase access to views, quality daylight, and reduced cooling load allowing for a more robust and efficient cooling system. A radiant chilled ceiling served by a central plant could reduce energy consumption and improve thermal comfort. DLR Group provided architecture and building and energy performance engineering an consulting services.
Design Achievement - Shanghai Port Building is located in the heart of Pudong District, directly adjacent to the Oriental Pearl Tower — one of the first high rise towers in LJZ CBD. DLR Group’s design comprises two arc-shaped buildings, fulfilling the goal to create an elegant yet subtle city icon without competing with the Oriental Pearl Tower. The central atrium rises over 20 levels to form a view corridor that maintains the visual connection between the Oriental Pearl Tower and Huangpu River. Scope Summary - The scope of the project encompassed design of a 88,500 m2 highrise building on a 14,750 m2 site in the heart of Pudong district. The 150 m, 35-level building is composed of a hotel and a service apartment tower. The two towers are connected by the main lobby on the ground level and a sky lounge on the 26th level. The building also includes restaurants, clubs and underground parking space. DLR Group provided architecture design services.
Design Achievement – DLR Group Middle East was successful with the commission to develop a new extension to the original mall ‘Riyadh Gallery,’ known commonly as the third most successful mall in Riyadh. It currently trades as a three-level mall with a combined area of 1.3 million square feet. The team generated a series of options during the Pre-Concept Design stage in order to consider both the language of the project but also the complicated connection between the existing and new extension plot. The scheme comprises of 600,000 SF including a complimentary range of retail, cinema, entertainment, hotel and a new IKEA Store connected off the busy King Fahad highway. The ambition of DLR Group's design was to create a series of celebrated uses around a world-class fountain. The project is the first of its kind to be a truly outdoor lifestyle experience, something distinctly new for the Kingdom. IKEA has been a fundamental part of the design, and the team has developed a collaborative working relationship with the team in the region as design partners and collaborators. The IKEA brand store is part of a larger roll out of destination anchors across the Kingdom. Scope Summary – At approximately 600,000 SF, Riyadh Gallery covers a large overall land space. The scope includes mixed-uses including Retail, Food & Beverage, Cinema, Entertainment, IKEA and Hotel. The IKEA box stands on top of 3 levels of subterranean parking. Directly beside it, resides the 9-story street-facing hotel and dining roof terrace. All the elements are connected by a common courtyard with a central water show feature. Covered walkways surrounding the water show link to The Avenue and IKEA entrance. Across the courtyard is a 12-screen Cinema & Icon Store box, meant to connect the retail elements to the F&B elements. DLR Group provided Planning, Architecture and Interior Design Services.
Design Achievement – The site of the future Fujairah Fine Arts Academy in the United Arab Emirates is on a powerful landscape and located in a region with austere, stoic, and timeless architecture. This new academy aims to cultivate learning and creativity; allow immersion in drama, music, dance, and art; enable both mastery and cross-disciplinary collaboration; and impart a multi-generational impact on the community. DLR Group’s design establishes a new and significant legacy, creating a distinctive landmark and addressing the transparency and optimism of the arts. The articulation of the architecture amalgamates the surrounding foothills and unique geology, long cultural history of making and ceramics, and Islamic influences such as hypostyles, arcades, vaulting, and mosaics. A pedestrian precinct is formulated as a mounded, modulated, and blurred landscape and building form, with a central commons space sheltered by an iconic and elegant protective canopy. The canopy during the day serves as a protective shading device, while at night becomes an illuminated canvas, rendered in light, color, imagery, and projected media. Anchoring the central nucleus is a water feature that resembles an oasis. Narrow, pedestrian-only alleys increase wind velocity to enhance comfort in a natural way. Scope Summary – New construction entails 76,000 SF of performance and academic spaces, 116,000 SF of mixed use, and 45,000 SF of future expansion. The centralized plan is broken up into four main programmatic elements: performance, academics, accommodations, and retail and parking. Performance facilities include a theater and amphitheater with shared stagehouse and back-of-house support. Adjacent space is provided for the study and practice of music, visual arts, and ballet. A library is positioned for access from all four quadrants of the academy. From the mounded central form, the facility feathers out, allowing the landscape to become the predominant articulated feature at the edges. Vegetation and structured form intermingle throughout the site, providing an open and inviting perimeter. The building blocks are faced in modest and modern masonry, animated by natural aggregate with reflective pearl-like highlights. The semi-permeable canopy allows filtered light to penetrate the buildings, commons, and pedestrian ways below. The solid and void patterning, informed by mashrabiya, creates figurative shadows, changing and animating the space through the day. DLR Group provided planning and architectural design services.
Design Narrative - With a vision of creating affordable and adaptable student living communities in Africa, DLR Group designed a hostel prototype that will support all aspects of student life, including academic support, retail, dining and entertainment. The flexible, modular design enables developers to quickly test sites and pair the site information with a market study to understand a project’s viability without investing months in a design and documentation process. The design for the hostel is based on a 7m x 7m x 7m cubic module. Each cube represents 8 beds or 49 sq m of student amenity space. This module is repeated multiple times to form a flexible structural grid that can be easily constructed from cast-in-place concrete, the local structural material of choice in Kenya. Modular components are added to the structural frame based on site adaptation considerations and financial modeling. As these projects roll out, a key component of the site adaptation will be focused on capturing the sustainable design opportunities of each site, including daylight harvesting, rainwater collection, natural ventilation and potential solar collection. Scope Summary - The potential sites range from ½ acre urban sites to 30 acre rural sites. The resulting bed configuration, amenity options and material selections will be dependent upon local hostel market comparisons and rental rates.
Design Achievement - The location and site of Tilal City Mall is a key component of an overall masterplan that will position a famed retail and entertainment destination for success. The design intent behind the planning of this mall starts with the park, which becomes a transitional element between the city and the masterplan’s nucleus, the mall. DLR Group's design and planning maximizes the benefits that the site has to offer by taking advantage of the views towards the park to create unique experiences and destinations for all guests. The idea is to extend the park into the shopping mall to create a continuous sensory experience between nature and leisure. Bringing in landscaping elements and water features into the mall’s entry creates a smooth transition between the two different spaces. The geometry of the entry opens up to a large outdoor piazza which creates a synergy between natural elements, from the park and retail elements to the outdoor cafes in the mall. Cutting back the ring road that separates both plots ensures pedestrian-friendly access from the park to the mall, while establishing the park as one of the mall's primary anchors. This is also a key element of new urbanism which not only enhances the user's experience but also augments the asset’s performance. Vehicular access to the mall happens through the west side of the mall. This entrance offers a drop-off and valet service. The ring road on the east side of the mall is cut back at the ramps descending down to underground parking. The planning and layout of the mall is intuitive to ensure a pleasant shopping experience. Primary retail anchors include a large hyper market on the ground floor with easy access from the underground car park; a wide variety of different mini and large department stores; cinema; family entertainment center; state-of-the-art food court with exterior terrace; and unique dining concepts including exterior dining options, signature restaurants, and shisha lounges. Close proximity to the park elevates and diversifies dining and shopping options with an al fresco experience. Scope Summary - The scope of work for this project includes a 728,500-SF, three-level mall; a 20-story tower with 8 levels of hotel comprising 120 rooms; and a 2,820-stall parking garage. DLR Group provided planning and architecture services.
Design Achievement - Xi’an, a well known historical city in Northwest China region. The city is known for its historic landmarks and preference for conservative architecture characteristics. However, this time local authority decided to commission DLR Group to bring its creative and innovative design to this ancient city. As an result, DLR Group proposed this futuristic scheme. The organic architectural form blurred boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces, which brought transparency and playfulness into this education facility. Scope Summary - The scope included 73,833 m² architectural floor area out of 90,521 m² site, teaching space for 12yr of education and 3261 m² for administration and housing facilities. DLR Group provided architectural design services.
Design Achievement - The Marina Hotel is inspired by Abdul Samad Al Qurashi which brings together the prestige of fragrance into theluxury of hospitality. The hotel will be located on the Sheikh Zayed Road, the major roadway cutting through Dubai, and in close proximity to the Dubai Marina. DLR Group’s design is inspired by the elegant geometry of the client’s beautifully designed perfume bottles. This unique design along with the hotel’s premier location near the marina and on Sheikh Zayed Road will create a memorable destination for guests and visitors alike. Scope Summary - The scope of work for this project includes a 322,917 SF, 25 story hotel encompassing 300 keys with an additional 300 apartment units. To achieve the subtle and elegant curves of the exterior, parametric software was used to model the skin of the building. This slender taper with a spiraling exterior structure features a penthouse level restaurant and bar that offers stunning bird’s eye views of the marina and the city at large. The hotel also features a prominent podium with a mezzanine level upscale restaurant. DLR Group provided planning and architecture services.
Design Achievement –  Strategically located on the eastern side of the Knowledge Economic City in Medina and is parallel to the Haramain train station on the eastern side, thus forming the gateway to Medina for the visitors coming though the international airport or the train station. The masterplan seeks to achieve urban and cultural goals consistent with the goals of vision 2030 of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to continue developing Medina as a destination for vistors, pilgrims, designing a place that attracts the residents providing hospitality services including hotel, visitors centre, cultural and social plaza, retail, restaurants, medical clinics, green pedestrians paths, green plaza and children’s play areas connecting various environmentally friendly transportation system. Capturing the audience our design approach considers the growth of the project, to link a budding flower, growing and reaching out over the community and embracing the key connectors of the destination. The IWD L- shape master plan & urban development approach centers on creating a human centric neighborhood environment that enhances community living by a carefully designed enclave that compounds connectivity and activated commercial frontages that enable a sustainable and commercially viable edge to the master plan. Scope Summary – The overall mixed use project is approximately 36,000 sqm of overall GLA and includes 65 residential units. The hotel has a total of 140 keys, 10 of which are suites. The retail component of the projects consists of 5400 sqm of retail GLA and includes and F&B, a clinic, and services for the residents of the development.
Design Achievement – Thakher City master plan was carefully designed as a new landmark mixed-use scheme in Makkah. The project comprises 5 to 6 plots in a large Master Plan including, 30 hectares of hospitality components in addition to retail, commercial, and residential components. The brief incorporates 5 towers and will share a retail podium, 3 to 4 star hotel & apartment accommodation with its own swimming pool, gym, banquet hall and meeting rooms. DLR Group’s design approach considered street level activation respecting the slope of the site by bridging each hospitality asset with the most effective level connection off the main highway. The design plays with texture and articulation, to create unique arrival areas. This is achieved through the implementation of canopies that use light and shade to create signature entrances. DLR Group’s design ambition was to complement the overall Thakher City master plan by creating a new ‘go to’ destination with a well-designed mixed use offer with flexibility in mind. Scope Summary –The client’s main goal is to create a new mixed-use development that engages the surrounding community, comprising 5 Towers with residential, retail, and hospitality components. Thakher City sits on a proposed site in Makkah, strategically situated on the Third Ring Road with main artery connecting the Site to the Holy Mosque. The site is comprised of a total 30 hectares over 5 to 6 plots. The site’s major challenge considers the street-level activation while respecting the gradients of the site by connecting each hospitality asset with the most effective level connection of the main highway. These connective paths between the assets are used to complete the overall Thakher City master plan by creating a new ‘go to’ destination for any visitor’s needs. DLR Group provided Planning, Architecture, and Interior Design Services.
Design Achievement – The Mall of Medina was conceived to be unlike any other retail experience in the region. The new luxury district creates a unique retail, leisure, and entertainment destinations which contrast from those of other global retail malls. Instead, we created an urban center with walkable spaces featuring bespoke shading elements that celebrate the local flora of the region. The spine running down the center hearkens to the wadis of the Saudi desert with water meandering along the paths flanked by local palms with unique dining and shopping experiences for visitors. The scheme is also connected by individual courtyard experiences with lifestyle zones of activity for local, and tourist community to enjoy. Scope Summary – The project consists of over 300,000 sqft Retail GLA on a site of 206,620 SQM with accommodation for 3200 parking spaces. DLR Group provided Planning, Architecture, and Interior Design Services.
Design Achievement – Achieving a fresh look through intelligent selections complimenting the existing stone and wood finishes, internal glazing elements, while providing an uplifting atmosphere and a welcoming experience. Scope Summary – Grand Millennium Operator has engaged DLR team with vision to refresh an existing Lobby and improve circulation experience internally, as well as externally. Our team studied and prepared series of facade improvement strategies with associated costs and developed a fresh new look for the space: enlarged lounge area, better connectivity between lobby and lounge, modular seating grouping & added displays. DLR Group has provided interior design services and architectural façade revisions.
Design Achievement – Strategically located in Jeddah, The Sultan Street mixed use development was envisioned as a contemporary lifestyle corner incorporating iconic urban shopping and entertainment for both residents and visitors alike. It celebrates a new district with the creation of a family friendly destination marked by dining events, a hotel, medical services, and a unique residential experience. In our approach to developing the concept we sought to maximize the views of the retail block, while capturing the experience on Prince Sultan Street. The residential component features interiors that pay homage to the distinct culture of the region incorporating imagery, materials, and patterns that all evoke Saudi heritage while offering generous spaces and views. Scope Summary – The overall mixed use project is approximately 36,000 sqm of overall GLA and includes 65 residential units. The hotel has a total of 140 keys, 10 of which are suites. The retail component of the projects consists of 5400 sqm of retail GLA and includes and F&B, a clinic, and services for the residents of the development
Ryan Cameron and Michael Vander Ploeg pursued "Data Streams": investigation of personal energy consumption; development of program monitoring software (to ultimately integrate with the Veri Energy app); and development of a live building monitoring system that could be integrated into our design services. --- WaterMarks Phase1 was completed in Aug 2017. Collaboration between the DLR Group and Mary Miss / City as Living Laboratory Tom Gallagher: Project Principal Yosuke Hiraiwa: Senior Lighting Designer Tammy Wu: Senior Lighting Designer Michael Vander Ploeg: Assistant Designer Aaron Asis: Project Designer/Manager Mary Miss: Project Artist Description: WaterMarks is an urban scaled project for the City of Milwaukee designed to help its residents better understand their relationship with the natural systems and the infrastructure that support their lives. The cornerstone of this first project phase will revolve around an iconic architectural lighting installation at the Jones Island Water Treatment Plant. This intervention will transform the stack into a visual icon, designed to broadcast environmental information intended to notify citizens in advance of any major precipitation event. A secondary series of human-scaled vertical markers will be installed at sites that radiate out from this central point and populate the streetscape through the City of Milwaukee.
Ryan Cameron and Michael Vander Ploeg pursued "Data Streams": investigation of personal energy consumption; development of program monitoring software (to ultimately integrate with the Veri Energy app); and development of a live building monitoring system that could be integrated into our design services.
Design Achievement – Emerging material technologies often face adoption barriers related to misconceptions about cost, performance, and availability, as well as a lack of awareness and understanding. DLR Group, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, is completing research to study the viability of mass timber systems in the context of hotel construction under a paid research grant from the US Forestry Service. Bringing almost a decade of pioneering “tall timber” work through our partnership with Hines on their T3 office program, as well as recognized design expertise in the hospitality sector, DLR Group will continue to advance the acoustics, systems integration, and aesthetics of timber applications. The goal is to build more projects with mass timber, which is the most ecologically important disruption in the construction industry in the last 100 years. The research targets real-world, constructable, financially viable solutions that will advance industry knowledge of this essential key to carbon reduction. Scope Summary – Over two years, DLR Group is leading a collaborative process with a wide-range of players from mass timber manufacturing leaders to directors of development from international hotel brands. Together, the group brainstorms real-world ideas and applications during intensive collaboration sessions. The outcomes of these sessions will inform full-scale built mock-ups for testing, demonstration, and awareness building; a prototype adaptable hotel design; and, detailed cost analysis. Design considerations include structural optimization, mechanical systems integration, acoustic testing, aesthetics, carbon negativity, fire safety, and biophilic wellness. DLR Group is providing research leadership, and conceptual design and engineering services.
Design Achievement - KANEKO, an Omaha based cultural organization focused on exploring and encouraging the process of creativity had a yearlong focus on architecture in 2013. As part of this deep dive into the work of architecture they invited three of Omaha’s largest architecture and engineering firms to create exhibits showcasing each team’s design philosophy. The firms were given blank space in one of KANEKO’s newly renovated galleries to express an architectural concept of their choosing. Given DLR Group’s reputation as the nation’s leader in K-12 design, our exhibit was chosen to represent the remarkable advancements in the learning environment of the past several decades. The exhibit therefore centered on the “OLD SCHOOL / NEW SCHOOL” dichotomy, as schools designed to meet the needs of today’s students take on a vastly different form from those of generations past. As a case study, the exhibit featured the Marysville Getchell High School Campus, an award winning educational project. Set on a wooden frame representing an iconic “Old School” schoolhouse, the exhibit employed bold graphics and video depicting the process of designing a 21st Century School. A secondary structure was built that doubled as a welcome sign for the exhibit and also provided additional information about DLR Group. Scope Summary - he structural frame of the two-part kiosk was constructed of orange-painted 2x4”s. Pine wood slats, 1”x4” and 1”x2”, were then applied to create the desired sense of enclosure and transparency. On each structure, an informational wall was implemented using 1/2” MDF covered with applied vinyl graphics. In the main structure, a 42” LED screen was built in with the video presentation running on a loop. The crowning element of the structure is a bell created out of two pieces of MDF wood - we still can’t get it to chime.
ADAM WELLS PERSONAL PROJECT Design Achievement - Nestled on the southern edge of the Nebraska Sandhills, the Lazy S Brand has been producing Irish Black Cattle for over twenty years. This small, family-owned business has a long history of award winning cattle that range from breeding stock to market animals. With a focus on quality over quantity, what the Lazy S Brand lacks in overall production size, it makes up for with outstanding animal quality, giving it a distinctive advantage in the marketplace. Scope Summary - When it came to establishing the brand for the Lazy S Brand, the main focus was to develop an identity mark that is both solid and timeless to convey the rich history of the brand while avoiding looking dated. A crest concept offers a foundation for the primary logo to be used on marketing materials. With this logo as the base, numerous offshoots could be created to support the brand while keeping the auxiliary identity marks in the same family. These options offered flexibility to the client to use the branding in digital and traditional printing mediums. The actual cattle brand (the Lazy S) was incorporated into many of the graphics which instantly added another layer of credibility to the identity system. The visual communication team provided brand vision and positioning, naming, visual identity, and promotional material services for this project.
Design Achievement - When the National Hospitality Team at DLR Group needed a custom piece of collateral designed for introductory client meetings they reached out to the Visual Communications Studio. The team needed a marketing piece that achieved two main goals: highlighting the firm’s national experience with high-end hotel and restaurant work clients, and DLR Group’s national design leaders’ personal expertise. Additional elements of emphasis included the firm’s history, world-wide presence, and the brand promise to “Elevate the human experience through design”. Scope Summary - Aside from the project images, a branded color palette of red, black, and gray was utilized. The project locations were reinforced with the use of a state icon in conjunction with each featured project. The piece was designed to be printed as a soft cover saddle-stiched book that used spot varnishing on the cover to add to the visual impact of the red lettering. The visual communication team provided promotional material services for this project.
Design Achievement - The Visual Communication Studio was tasked with developing a promotional piece to effectively promote DLR Group’s mission to elevate the human experience through design, key projects, and overall firm history with current and potential clients. Taking visual ques from the recently redesigned website, the promotional piece walks the audience through the DLR Group story. Visually captivating imagery of DLR Group projects, detailed typography, and overall content that aligned with the new website were employ to engage the viewer. Scope Summary - The final product was a promotional piece with flexible production options including a hardcover book, a saddle stitched booklet, or digital brochure that could be easily updated. The visual communication team provided brand vision and promotional material services for this project.
ADAM WELLS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Design Achievement - In developing a brand for BlueGrass BeerWorks it was vitally important to stay true to the southernroots that led to the company being what it is today. Growing up in the bourbon capital of the world, the owner of BlueGrass BeerWorks knew he wanted to weave the history and culture of his iconic Southern hometown of Bardstown, Kentucky, into the framework of his fledgling business. Though his product—craft beer—is a departure from the city’s magnum opus, he rallied around creating something different, relying on brewing as his vehicle for experimentation. During the branding process, the term “bluegrass” resonated as a reflection of his culture, referencing the bluegrass region of northern Kentucky. His company’s name, BlueGrass BeerWorks, reinforces his strong connection to this region and his dedication to creating something traditional, yet unexpected. Scope Summary - In the first phase the client sought an aesthetic for his brand that would provide the company with a strong foothold in the craft beer marketplace. The design relies on clean lines and simple shapes, creating a retro-modern aesthetic. The main grass/grain icon formed the framework of the brand program, which consists of 18 different symbols that can be used to complement the primary crest-shaped identity mark. Although there are variations among the axillary symbols, each one provides a consistent tie to the main logo, complementing and strengthening the brand. The visual communication team provided brand vision and positioning, naming, and visual identity services for this project.
Design Achievement - In preparation for a project pursuit, DLR Group needed a branded booklet to communicate its knowledge and experience in architectural design to the client. DLR Group’s Visual Communications Studio’s booklet design tells a cohesive story to convey the firm’s understanding of the project and proposed solutions. Using compelling graphic elements, including computer renderings, hand drawn renderings, and hand sketched diagrams, the booklet effectively communicates DLR Group’s design approach and expertise. Daylighting studies and material comparison diagrams further demonstrate the firm’s extensive knowledge and consideration of various design opportunities for the project. The booklet is branded throughout to reflect the client’s colors and brand elements. Scope Summary - DLR Group provided graphic design for this ## page, full color look book, which introduced the firm to the client and shared key project considerations, challenges, and solutions. The booklet design included computer renderings, hand drawn renderings, hand sketched diagrams, daylighting studies, material comparison diagrams, and proposed solutions while maintaining the client’s brand colors and graphic elements.

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