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INTRODUCTIONDLR Group believes integrated design is the practice of early collaboration in order to produce sustainable design excellence.
At the core of an integrated design firm are collaborative, interdisciplinary teams composed of all project life cycle stakeholders. These teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to elevate design. The outcome is sustainable design of a high performance building for a sustainable future.
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Structural
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INTERIORSProgramming
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Branded Environments
ARCHITECTUREIntegrated Design
BIM Modeling
Architecture 2030
PLANNINGMaster Planning
Space Planning
Facilities Assessment
OPTIMIZATIONCommissioning
Energy Modeling
Energy Master Planning
SUSTAINABILITY
signatory (out of 165 firms) to the AIA 2030 Commitment. Firms commit to steer the industry to achieve net-zero design and construction for all buildings by the year 2030.
of those 165 firms to submit our Sustainability Action Plan for meeting the Commitment targets.
DLR Group is a member of the United States Green Building Council, with one of the highest numbers of LEED Accredited staff (as a percentage of total staff) amongst large firms.
DLR Group believes in Architecture 2030 and is an adopter of the 2030 Challenge as a critical target for design and construction.
We’re helping lead the design and construction industry toward achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2030.
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DLR Group is an initial signatory to the China Accord – a commitment to plan and design all cities, towns, developments and buildings in China to low carbon/carbon neutral standards.
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HOW WE DO IT
WHEN WE LISTEN WE LEARN.The client knows it.
There is trust.
You feel it.
WHEN WE DELIVER THERE ARE NO OBSTACLES.Only solutions.
Clients are championed.
Teammates are celebrated.
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WHEN WE DESIGN A DREAM BECOMES REALITY.There is collaboration.
Great things happen.
Elevate the human experience through design.
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REACHDLR Group provides architecture, engineering, planning, interior design, and building optimization to meet the unique needs of our clients in locations around the globe. DLR Group operates with a business structure and a culture of interoffice workload sharing. The people with whom you work are directly backed by the firm’s entire resources, enabling us to immediately and effectively scale our teams to meet your needs.
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WORKPLACEThe DLR Group Workplace Portfolio includes tailored technical and creative solutions for Fortune 500 companies, progressive startups, and commercial real estate firms. Our design expertise ranges from feasibility studies and strategic planning, to campus master plans, consolidations, headquarters, new core and shell, and renovations and tenant improvements. We design the best for the best: our nation’s most respected and innovative enterprises.
As generational and functional dynamics in the workplace shift, our practice keeps pace with the pulse of trends, which we analyze to reveal best practices. Les-sons from this research and application support our vision to design workplaces that optimize use, maximize effectiveness, inspire employees to greater produc-tivity, create a positive branded public and internal image, and engage users in a culture of shared excellence.
We design to make your business stronger. Our leadership in the industry is actively shaping the workplace experience for companies who value the link between work environment and success. Whether it’s international clients feeling at home when they visit your office or the game-changing idea that comes from a team collaborating in space designed just for them, the power is ours to create together.
Angela Castleton, Global Workplace Leader DENVER
Gretchen Wahab LOS ANGELES
Mark Ludtka SEATTLE
Filo Castore HOUSTON
Melissa Spearman OMAHA
WORKPLACE EXPERTSElaine Kanelos DENVER
Cassandra Griep MINNEAPOLIS
Steve Cavanaugh CHICAGO
Tim Thielke PHOENIX
Steve McKay SEATTLE
Scott Kruse SEATTLE
Andrea Johnson SEATTLE
Darcy Royalty LOS ANGELES
Rita Yurrow WASHINGTON, DC
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ANGELA CASTLETON
GRETCHEN WAHAB
MARK LUDTKA
FILO CASTORE
STEVE MCKAY
SCOTT KRUSE
ANDREA JOHNSON
DARCY ROYALTY
RITA YURROW
MELISSA SPEARMAN
CASSANDRA GRIEP
ELAINE KANELOS
STEVE CAVANAUGH
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Adjustable FormsClient: Adjustable Forms, Inc.
Location: Lombard, IL
Design Achievement:Adjustable Forms, Inc., a cast-in-place concrete contractor, conceived the expansion and renovation of their existing office and warehouse facility as a vehicle to showcase their talents and capabilities while expanding their own knowledge of concrete and its potential. In response, DLR Group's design is a reflection of concrete as a material and a process. Several methods of concrete construction showcase the client's technical ability: post-tensioning roof and floor slabs, full height thermally broken and insulated sandwich walls, integrally colored stamped and polished concrete flooring, and traditional reinforced concrete. The design limited the materials used to provide a pure, minimalist aesthetic with the focus on craftsmanship. The building's thoughtfully composed massing is evocative of a sculptural aesthetic. Color, texture and concrete mix were experimented with and tested throughout the design process. A high performance rain screen system with dark zinc panels brings a sophisticated contrast to the exposed concrete massing, while mitigating harsh afternoon light. On the interior, daylighting is optimized with skylights and continuous perimeter glazing. LED lighting and radiant flooring are used throughout to maximize energy efficiency.
Scope Summary:This project encompassed design of an 8,000 SF one-story office building and 12,145 SF warehouse. The building includes offices for contractors, an employee lounge, collaboration areas, a specialized BIM room, a courtyard and a warehouse to house large concrete equipment. The office is designed to accommodate 16 full time employees. The project is registered with the USGBC and is tracking LEED Gold certification. DLR Group provided architecture services. The building has received multiple awards from the Chicago Building Congress, the Engineering News Record, and the Association of Licensed Architects.
Boeing Everett Delivery CenterClient: The Boeing Company
Location: Everett, WA
Design Achievement:Boeing's Everett Delivery Center is one of the most unique buildings in the world, blending the functions of: a showroom for large-body commercial airplanes; a Class A office housing both Boeing staff and their customer airlines as they carry out final negotiations in purchasing planes; an events center for celebrational airplane delivery ceremonies; and an international airport. DLR Group's design fulfills Boeing's goal to create a world-class building that engages customers in the Boeing airplane brand by making the experience entirely about the planes outside. Sight lines, forms and shapes, tasteful finishes, and processional circulation enable ongoing experiential connection to the aircraft from all levels of the building. Programming, planning, and design not only meet the facility's wide range of functional needs, but further include solutions that address and respect the perspectives and needs of international customers coming from distinctly different cultures and backgrounds.
Scope Summary:The scope of work began with early collaboration with Boeing in a series of programming workshops and charrettes to clarify an appropriate mix of complex spatial, functional, and cultural needs. Design encompassed creating a three-level, 180,000 SF building, with revised vehicular traffic and parking, and new airplane delivery stalls with essential service connections. Spaces include open workplace and private offices; conference rooms; contract signing rooms; kitchen and dining spaces; customer procession areas, including reception, lounges and break areas; a delivery center featuring divisible space and advanced, events-level A/V systems and lighting; support and TSA security spaces. The project also entailed sustainable design strategies achieving LEED Gold certification. DLR Group provided architecture, interiors, and environmental graphics services.
Boeing Twin Aisle Cafe & Dreamliner DinerClient: The Boeing Company
Location: Everett, WA
Design Achievement:Located within Boeing's Everett factory, the largest building in the world by volume, the Twin Aisle Café and Dreamliner Diner provide diverse dining experiences. At the Twin Aisle Cafe, social bridges are created as Boeing's design, engineering, and manufacturing professionals come together to experientially connect with the products they're all working to produce: outstanding aircraft. A glass storefront on the second-floor cafe puts users at eye-level with aircraft in the assembly lines, and also allows the cafe itself to serve as a way-finding beacon with high visibility across the immense factory floor. Interiors provide an intimate atmosphere with three distinct dining styles, including spaces that serve as a place of respite and informal gathering for workers on break. Here, people gather to eat, meet and together take pride in what they're accomplishing. The Dreamliner Diner offers office and manufacturing staff another dining option. DLR Group's design integrates the café into an existing high-bay factory tower overlooking the final body assembly portion of the 787 production line. An exterior window makes this the first interior space in the factory to have natural light. Bright and energetic, the Dreamliner Diner integrates soft furnishings and naturalistic environmental supergraphics to contrast the industrial nature of the surrounding factory.
Scope Summary:The 8,200 SF Twin Aisle Café project comprised the relocation of an existing café from the first to the second level of a high-bay tower in Boeing's Everett factory plant. Scope of work included design for the build-out of an approximately 1,225 SF kitchen, 2,260 SF servery and 4,700 SF dining space; an all new interiors atmosphere with prototypical design elements that can be implemented in additional cafes within the factory; and new vertical circulation to connect the café to the factory floor. DLR Group provided architecture, interiors, and engineering services.The 4,670 SF Dreamliner Diner project entailed the design of a new café on the second level, and 600 SF skybridge connecting the café to nearby office space. Café spaces include a 1,000 SF kitchen, a 770 SF serving area, and 2,900 SF of dining space. The scope also included the design of a seating porch—a 5-foot punch out on the exterior of the factory building wall. DLR Group provided architecture, interiors, and engineering services.
NRG Renew OfficeClient: NRG Renew
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Design Achievement:NRG Renew is putting technology to work to ensure a sustainable, clean energy future. DLR Group’s design of the NRG Renew Office in Scottsdale, Arizona embodies the national energy infrastructure: orthogonal geometry on the perimeter reflects the power grid, while organic liveliness at the core reflects the vitality of life as a result of energy. The perimeter spaces house offices and open workstations while the core consists of energetic spaces such as huddle rooms, collaboration spaces, conference rooms, and break rooms. The color palette reinforces these aspects of energy with the perimeter being white and crisp and the core being vibrant with bold areas of color incorporating brand colors of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. To highlight the shifting nature of energy, the building core - a typically rigid element - is wrapped in a dynamically organic wall that morphs as it moves along the space. Two bold cyan and magenta hallways cut through the glossy white core and expose freestanding meeting pods. This organic element helps to solidify the free flow and participatory nature of the office’s culture. The overarching goals were to emphasize brand, be organic, and achieve openness. Those goals were achieved as the resulting office is a refreshing experience of collaboration and a physical manifestation of NRG’s commitment to change how people experience energy.
Scope Summary:The 28,000 SF office took a previously closed-off floor plate with 60 offices and transitioned it, while occupied, to an open office with capacity for 125+ employees. The program includes 57% office, 10% amenity space, 24% collaboration space, and 9% specialty spaces including an Operations Center with complex IT and Mechanical systems. DLR Group provided interior design and mechanical and electrical engineering services.
Frances Street at Aksarben Village
Location: Omaha, NE
Design Achievement:This new mixed-use building located in Aksarben Village responds to the development's design guidelines with a welcoming, bold experience of light and transparency. DLR Group's design employs a slender building form allowing natural light to penetrate to the core through the northern curtain wall and large windows to the south. Automated sunshades on the south facade ensure a gentle light throughout the day. A simple floor plate and limited columns allow for maximum flexibility on all floors. The sleek contemporary design allows ultimate flexibility in retail storefronts and interaction with the streetscape. A clear entrance from both the street front and from within the block welcomes visitors and allows for easy way-finding. Surface and structured parking provides ample spaces for vehicular traffic with safe separation from pedestrian paths.The interior of the building is designed with collaborative, open offices with multi-level connections to the outdoors. Breakout space "bento boxes" flank open office areas, and are visually demarcated by a wood enclosure that wraps the wall and folds in a continuous surface to form a ceiling. These boxes house soft seating lounges, standup meeting space with dry erase walls, and huddle rooms for efficient small group meetings.
Scope Summary:This LEED gold 39,400 SF office building is planned with a narrow building footprint to maximize daylight penetration and extensive open interior space to provide maximum flexibility for tenants. The mechanical, electrical, and structural design was carefully integrated with the architecture to allow implementation of interior design strategies for Class A workplace environments. DLR Group provided architecture, interiors, and engineering services.
Google Kirkland Campus Client: SRMKII, LLC
Location: Kirkland, WA
Design Achievement:Google is experiencing rapid growth of their engineering teams in Washington state, and moving forward with expanding their facilities to double the workforce on their campus in Kirkland. Created in partnership with property owner SRM Development, DLR Group's design for this new two-building facility builds on our master plan for Google's campus development, creating a flexible, advanced new two-building workplace complex adjacent to their existing facilities. This project redevelops five acres of former brownfield site to accommodate the facilities, and provide pedestrian connections to the existing campus that encourage "casual collisions." These interactions are informal meetings and idea exchanges that occur in in-between places, and are integral to Google's culture. DLR Group’s site planning studies were informed by “scale jumping” strategies for integration at an urban scale, campus scale, and building scale. At a social level, these strategies led to programmatic opportunities that bridge the community, brand, and employee scales. This project will meet Google's high sustainability goals, including rigorous selection of healthy materials meeting criteria established by Pharos, and achieving minimum LEED Gold certification.
Scope Summary:The scope of work encompasses shell and core design for a new 192,000 SF build-to-suit office building, with two workplace levels over one level of structured parking. Features include exterior decks with views of Lake Washington and the Olympic mountains, bike paths, bike lockers and shower facility, dog walk areas, green roofs, rain catchment for reuse, electric vehicle chargers, integrated sun shading devices, highly efficient HVAC systems and a super insulated building shell. The project goals include minimum LEED Gold certification. DLR Group is providing architecture, engineering, and energy modeling services.
Client: Google, Inc.
Location: Kirkland, WA
Design Achievement:Among multiple tenant improvements DLR Group has completed for Google, the C1 and A2 projects exemplify unique solutions that enhance the Google culture and brand. Googlers moving into the Kirkland C1 space engage in close and constant project based team interaction. Therefore, a design imperative is that even the largest of their teams can sit next to one another in direct collaboration. DLR Group’s design for the space nearly halves the standard square footage per person, and brings teammates close together through condensed workstation layouts connected to shared informal meeting nodes. To accomplish the creation of this open work environment, the team removed a significant amount of interior walls. This provides maximum availability of workspace, harvests the greatest amount of daylight possible, and creates a perception of open space within a denser workplace. Warm charcoal walls, ceilings, and carpet temper that openness with a sense of intimacy and comfort. Complementary organic colors, forms, textures, materials, and accents create moments of whimsy and delight throughout the space, aligning with the building’s “Northwest Outdoors” theme. For the renovation of the second floor of Building A on its Kirkland campus, Google sought to quickly affect a paint-and-carpet refresh of workplace spaces to accommodate expanding teams. DLR Group's design capitalizes on additional opportunities to make significant spatial impacts within the original schedule and budget parameters. By removing interior walls, a fluid connection is created across the open office environment, both around and through the secure building core. While the scope of work included preserving existing workstations, perimeter offices and conference spaces, the team found opportunities to re-plan collaboration areas, social spaces and privacy rooms for improved accessibility, visibility and experience of space. New FF&E in these shared areas not only provide wayfinding cues throughout the newly open environment, but also create a fun, funky, energetic workplace atmosphere relating to the building's "Northwest Music Scene" theme.
Google Tenant Improvements
Scope Summary:The C1 project improved 11,000 SF on the first floor of Building C on Google’s Kirkland Campus. This included re-planning floor configuration; selective demolition of walls and ceilings; new paint and carpet; new furnishings and fixtures; and an environmental graphics package. The program includes a large open office zone, small team offices, small and medium video enabled conference rooms, informal lounge and collaboration spaces, and a microkitchen with adjacent game room. This tenant improvement tracked all decisions to fullfill standards equal to LEED Gold and Pharos Red List. DLR Group provided planning, architecture, interiors, graphic design, MEP SD design, and lighting package selection services.The A2 project improved 30,000 SF on the second floor of Building A on Google's Kirkland Campus, including: replanning floor configuration; selective demolition of walls and ceilings; demolishing, moving and rebuilding social spaces, including lounges and kitchenettes and privacy spaces including phone, massage, and focus rooms; new paint and carpet/reclaimed wood flooring; new ancillary/soft furnishings in social spaces; new finishes in social spaces; some HVAC and plumbing relocations; new plumbing fixtures; new occupancy sensors and refurbished daylight harvesting systems; revised and new lighting; and an environmental graphics package. The TI is LEED Gold Certified. DLR Group provided planning, architecture, interiors, graphic design, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering services.
Molasky Corporate CenterClient: The Molasky Group of Companies
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Design Achievement:DLR Group’s design of the ten-story Molasky Corporate Center resulted in the first Class A office building in the southern Nevada desert to achieve LEED Gold certification. Design evolved around a simple floor plate with minimal core structure and MEP systems distribution, giving the owners optimized rentable square feet and offering tenants spatial adaptability. Sustainable design features include renewable energy generation through photovoltaics; wall insulation made of shredded, recycled blue jeans; daylight and views for 90% of the spaces; underfloor air distribution systems; low- and no-VOC materials; recycled materials; low-flow water fixtures; and the use of cooling tower water for 100% of irrigation demands, which saves over 1 million gallons of water a year. User-focused sustainable design choices offer potential for a 20% increase in employee productivity as well as a significant decrease in occupancy costs. DLR Group's interior design for Molasky's own in-building spaces, emphasizing the building's best qualities in daylighting, openness, and opportunity for sustainable interiors choices. A restrained tonally neutral color palette reinforces the "clean" sustainability of the center. The progressive project was awarded by the City of Las Vegas Mayor, the Southwest Contractor Magazine, and NAIOP.
Scope Summary:The 830,000 SF building comprises 285,000 rentable square feet (in ten stories) of office space and a courtyard podium over a new six-story parking garage. Retail spaces on the first floor serve building tenants. Because the building is situated on an urban site, the team responded to specific challenges of traffic circulation and potential congestion around garage entries. The team developed a solution featuring two separate, non-intersecting entrance and exit points at grade level, which enables efficient traffic patterns. DLR Group provided architecture and interiors services.
Ping IdentityClient: Ping Identity
Location: Denver, CO
Design Achievement:Online security and identity management company Ping Identity needed a new home in Downtown Denver to showcase the firm's unique culture and provide a positive, fun workspace for its entrepreneurial staff. DLR Group's design began with a visioning session which distilled the desired styles of the Ping Identity stakeholders into a unified vision for all: an eclectic design with a personalized vibe. The supporting vocabulary developed by the team and referred to throughout the design process, creating a space that is comfortable, innovative, funky, and visually interesting. The shell space challenged the design team to deliver a functional workplace within a two-story volume and U-shaped floor plate. New raised areas, flying lights and a complementary perimeter soffit with a wood-grain look humanize the volume of the space. A large-scale customized graffiti graphic of the company name is prominently displayed along a wall in the open office area, contributing to the independent and creative energy of the space and the occupants. Conference rooms read as objects in space, using a clean aesthetic to leave the focus on human interaction. Kitchen and break areas offer comforts in an updated palette of stainless steel appliances and sleek furnishings.
Scope Summary:The scope of work comprised tenant improvements for a 20,225 SF workplace, delivering on a fast-track design and construction schedule of four months. Spaces include reception, lobby, conference rooms, open collaboration areas, private offices, open office work stations, break areas, and kitchen. DLR Group provided architecture and interior design services on the project.
Rally SoftwareClient: Rally Software
Location: Denver, CO
Design Achievement:Rally Software, a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to manage agile software development voted a "Best Place to Work" several times over, needed to quickly expand to create a new environment for their Denver employee base. DLR Group's design began as a small tenant improvement on the second floor of a downtown Denver landmark to support 30 employees. The project quickly grew into a complete repurposing of the space to house nearly 100 members of this highly innovative, creative work force. The new space is all about function for Rally's people and their work, delivered in a comfortable, humanistic environment supporting a variety of work styles, conference and collaboration needs, technology needs, break needs, and even commuter bicycle and bare feet needs.
Scope Summary:Goals for this 18,000 SF tenant improvement included development of a smart footprint for multifunction work, collaboration and movement, incorporation of highly functional, re-configurable furnishings and elements supporting a variety of employee work styles, spaces including large and small conference rooms, a comfortable employee dining/break area with full kitchen, and recycling options to keep green. Everything, including power and data, had to be mobile to enable workers to plug in, re-arrange, and collaborate anywhere. From those needs and goals came simple, yet elegant design solutions ranging from overhead cable trays to a pull down power system that began as a specification from an auto mechanic's catalog, now streamlined into a more stylized "snap-and-go" plug-in technology. Write-on walls further support collaboration throughout, while flex spaces were created to accommodate small and larger-scale public gatherings or private meetings and office events. An open, full-service, modern kitchen, coffee bar, beer tap line, and game room support employee needs during work and down time. Energy efficiency was addressed through daylighting, highly efficient building systems, low flow water systems, maintaining the facility's original durable finishes of concrete floors, wood and masonry, built in recycling programs and support for alternative transportation with showcase bike racks lining the walls and employee showers. DLR Group provided interior design, FF&E coordination, mechanical and electrical design, and construction administration services.
UCPath CenterClient: University of California-San Diego
Location: Riverside, CA
Design Achievement:The UCPath Center is a core part of the University of California's strategy to increase the efficiency of administrative service delivery at all campuses across the state. DLR Group’s design for the interior build-out maximizes available work and office spaces while providing future flexibility. The structural X brace is the focal point of the lobby and is accentuated by its bold yellow color. The angled element is reiterated through ceiling geometries in the lobby and open office area, carpet pattern, and custom wall graphics. Accent colors throughout the entire space reinforce the University of California System’s brand. The oversized break room offers multiple appliances and various seating arrangements, including lounge, banquet and counter seats. The simplicity of the layout and clear delineation of functions supports the University's goal of streamlining efficiency and access perceptions.
Scope Summary:This 53,000 SF tenant improvement project accommodates up to 370 employees in a flexible and functional work environment. The program consists of conference rooms, offices, open staff work stations, call center work stations, and support spaces. The scope of work included interior architecture and finishes; ceiling, lighting, flooring systems and utilities; and modification of existing systems and restrooms. LEED certification was a priority and was achieved through several avenues including: selection of energy-efficient appliances; specification of locally sourced building materials; utilization of sustainable finish materials including low VOC paints, carpets with recycled and post-consumer content, and FSC-approved woods. The raised floor system allows air conditioning to rise, more effectively conditioning occupied space planes. DLR Group provided interior design services.
United Launch Alliance HeadquartersClient: United Launch Alliance, LLC
Location: Centennial, CO
Design Achievement:A 50-50 joint venture owned by Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company, United Launch Alliance provides space launch services for U.S. government organizations such as the Department of Defense, NASA, and the National Reconnaissance Office. DLR Group's design collocates research, mission control, and workplace functions into a single campus fulfilling ULA's goals to increase their business effectiveness. In planning, key adjacencies between clients, customers, and business and technical functions enable interdepartmental connectivity, agile teaming, and a stronger sense of shared mission. In design, spaces integrate icons of ULA's launch programs with dignified, modern finishes to reflect the organization's aerospace identity and brand of reliability and cost-efficiency. Spaces are further organized to provide daylight and views to all workplace employees for health and well-being, enhanced productivity, and view connections to the surrounding mountains.
Scope Summary:The scope of work for this project encompassed site analysis and feasibility alternatives for multiple sites, master planning for the selected site, and programming and design for a that consolidates previously separate locations into 478,000 SF of leased space on a single campus. Spaces in four buildings support approximately 2,100 employees, and include open office workspace and private offices; R&D, lab, and mission control environments; formal and informal collaboration areas; cafeteria and dining; fitness centers; and bike storage. DLR Group provided planning, architecture, and interiors services.
Baoshan Long Beach Winder TowerClient: Ruitai Development Co. Ltd.
Location: Shanghai, China
Design Achievement:Poised at the gateway to Shanghai and mainland China, a world-class waterfront development will bring urban renewal to Baoshan, transforming an aged maritime dock into a vibrant lifestyle hub – Long Beach Observation Tower Zone. Its creation symbolizes a future state of hope and brightness for the Baoshan community: a marker of ideas to come and the start of a new story. DLR Group’s design engages and integrates the existing residential and commercial fabric into a prominent, mixed-use development featuring an iconic tower seen 590 feet in the sky above. The project has a focus on civic and commercial functions, with a museum and exhibition facility, observation tower, wedding and event space, offices and a hotel. As it celebrates the new and commemorates the past, articulations within the site seamlessly integrates the surrounding parkways, waterfront boardwalks, roadways and homes.
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Scope Summary:Encompassing 1,217,505 SF on 6.9 acres, the Baoshan Long Beach Observation Tower Zone will include a tower, museum, office building, retail and hotel. In addition to creating an iconic landmark on the shoreline, the tower will serve a variety of functions, offering amenities for unforgettable ceremonies and events, breathtaking views of the waterfront and nearby cruise terminal, and unique dining experiences. Given its vital link between the waterfront paseo and extensive green belt to the South, the Master Plan intricately ties together the open spaces and architecture – providing a seamless connection to the urban functionalities of this vibrant development. Seeking a number of energy efficient solutions in site development, building design, and systems, this project will serve as a catalyst to future sustainable developments in Baoshan and Greater Shanghai. DLR Group is providing planning, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and interior design.
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