DLR Group is a global, employee-owned integrated design firm founded in 1966 that delivers architecture, engineering, interior design, planning, and specialist services across civic, cultural, healthcare, educational, sports, and infrastructure sectors. The firm operates across the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East and Africa, with more than 1,500 design professionals on staff.
The firm's approach centres on multidisciplinary coordination, combining architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, acoustic design, landscape architecture, lighting design, and theater planning within single projects. This integrated model underpins its work across diverse verticals including higher education, hospitality, justice, workplace design, and mixed-use development.
DLR Group has expanded substantially since 2020, adding over 600 design professionals and nine offices while growing revenue from $279.6 million to $536.8 million. The firm's design culture is codified in ten tenets that emphasise resilient and adaptable design, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and the creation of lasting social value. As an employee-owned organisation, the firm maintains a structure that aligns staff interests with long-term institutional priorities.