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The global integrated design firm DLR Group has released its 2024 Annual Report. The report highlights how the 100% employee-owned firm is meeting society’s most pressing issues head on, from the personal perspectives of their integrated design leaders.
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From industry-leading LEED Platinum and net-zero cultural and educational institutions to new models for trauma-informed youth and family justice campuses, mixed-use communities of scale in China and the Middle East, and technological advancements in AI and automation, the report centers on DLR Group’s notable projects from 2024. It also shares the perspectives of luxury interiors and public safety design leaders who joined DLR Group with its acquisition of two award-winning California firms: BraytonHughes Design Studios and RossDrulisCusenbery.
The tremendous legacy of former CEO Griff Davenport, FAIA, is highlighted. His 40-year career led the firm through major expansion. Retiring in January 2025, Davenport continues as Chair of the Board. The firm’s two new managing principals, California Region Leader Pamela Touschner, FAIA, and Chief Design Officer Peter Rutti, AIA, NCARB, discuss their commitment to strategic growth and design culture.
Finally, the firm noted a record performance year across diverse metrics including client satisfaction, community impact, design excellence, and financials. DLR Group’s design work was recognized with nearly 70 awards, while its 1,700+ employee owners committed thousands of hours to volunteering.
DLR Group’s 2024 Annual Report is available for download here.
About DLR Group
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients, local communities, and our planet. DLR Group is 100 percent employee-owned, fully supports the initiatives and goals of the 2030 Challenge and is an initial signatory to the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Wenling Cultural Center opened in 2024, anchoring a new arts and cultural district in Wenling, China. The poetry-inspired design by DLR Group honors regional context and emphasizes community engagement. (Photo: Business Wire)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday visited the Kuril Islands, a Russian-controlled Pacific island chain also claimed by Japan, for the first time, drawing protests from Tokyo.
Putin visited a fish plant, a hospital and a school on Iturup, one of the chain's southernmost islands. He also briefly spoke to local residents and met with the governor of Russia's Sakhalin region, Valery Limarenko.
Japan asserts territorial rights to the four southernmost islands of the chain, which it calls the Northern Territories. The Soviet Union took them from Japan in the final days of World War II, and the dispute kept the countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities.
Decades of diplomatic efforts to negotiate a settlement haven’t produced any visible results. Moscow over the years has also beefed up its military presence on the Kuril Islands in moves that appeared to underscore its firm stance in the dispute.
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said his country “strongly protests” against Putin's visit to Iturup, which Japan calls Etorofu. “The Northern Territories, including Etorofu (Iturup) Island, are Japan’s inherent territory both historically and from the perspective of international law,” Motegi said in a statement.
Japan also protested in 2021 when Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited Iturup.
Putin in recent days has visited several regions in Russia's Siberia and the Far East. Before coming to Iturup, the Russian president stopped on Sakhalin Island to attend the final part of the drills by Russia's Pacific Fleet.
Speaking aboard a warship that was taking part in the naval exercises, Putin said Wednesday that the current status of the Kuril Islands “is enshrined in international documents as a reality that arose following the outcome of the World War II.” “But even here, Russia was prepared to seek a solution with the goal of concluding a peace treaty with Japan,” he said.
The Russian leader said that in the past, Moscow “had developed constructive relations with a number of Japanese leaders, including the tragically deceased former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who did much to bring Japan and Russia closer together, to align our positions.”
Putin said the position of Japan, which imposed sanctions on Russia after its sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, has since changed.
Still, Russia is ready “to cooperate with all its neighbors, including Japan and other states in the region,” the Russian president said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, interacts with schoolchildren as he visits a secondary school named after Eduard Norpolov in Kurilsk on the Iturup Island, the largest of the Kuril Islands of Russia's far-east, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, visits a secondary school named after Eduard Norpolov in Kurilsk on the Iturup Island, the largest of the Kuril Islands of Russia's far-east, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, visits the central district hospital at Kitovoye village on the Iturup Island, the largest of the Kuril Islands of Russia's fareast, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Sakhalin Region Governor Valery Limarenko in Kurilsk on the Iturup Island, the largest of the Kuril Islands of Russia's fareast, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the Secondary School named after the Hero of Russia Eduard Norpolov in Kurilsk on the Iturup Island, the largest of the Kuril Islands of Russia's fareast, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
