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Interior Design

Gensler designs interior spaces for living and working. Interior performance can be measured in human and...

Critical Facilities

Critical facilities are becoming more diverse as technology advances create market shifts. Hyperscale users and...

Jessica García

Jessica is a trusted advisor to many of Latin America’s top global and regional companies, using planning, research...

Oliver Schaper

Oliver is an inter-disciplinary Design Director whose expertise is developing holistic, civic-minded, and...

Anupama Sharma

Anupama is an accomplished architect with over 25 years of experience in managing complex architectural, mixed-use...

John Adams

John brings 20 years of experience as an architect, real estate strategist and planner to his role as Co-Regional...

Peter Barsuk

Peter is a Government & Defense Leader; an expert in education, civic and office building projects; and a Studio...

Jonathan Emmett

Jonathan has dedicated his career to the design of sports venues and training facilities, combining his extensive...

Rick Ferrara

As a Studio Director for Gensler Dallas’ Automotive Retail studio, Rick leads a team focused on the design and...

Tom Lindblom

Tom is a Hospitality Leader and a Studio Director in Gensler’s London office. He has more than 25 years of...

Erik Lustgarten

A global leader in Gensler's Sciences practice, Erik applies his deep understanding of the technical challenges...

Kirsten Ritchie

Kirsten serves as one of our firm’s leading sustainability ambassadors, championing healthful and forward-thinking...

Theresa Sheils

Theresa leads some of the Gensler Southeast Region’s most complex architecture projects and has deep expertise in...

Angela Spathonis

As Managing Director of Gensler’s Singapore office, Angela provides leadership on the development and execution of...

John Thomann

An authority on codes, permitting and on-site coordination, John has spent his career solving technical problems and...

Daniel W. Winey

Dan's 30-year career reflects his passion for design, architecture and international business leadership. He led...

Ed Wood

Ed seeks to create inspired and memorable work and prides himself on balancing highly creative and innovative...

Design Forecast - 6 Ways Cities are Reclaiming Public Space for the People

Rapid urbanization, demographic change, and the maturing digital age continue to challenge the spatial distribution...

Design Forecast - Introduction

Designing the Cities of the Future

Modern cities can be built on time-honored principles and shaped by regional culture and local values, as...

Design Forecast - Why Improving Inclusivity and Promoting Diversity is Good for Business

Here’s how well-designed workplaces and environments can improve performance, attract talent, and create positive...

Design Forecast - Here’s How Wellness is Becoming a Key Factor in City Planning

Making cities healthy is essential to urban planning today. There is no avoiding the research proving how planning...

Design Forecast - Data and Design Are Merging to Create New Experiences

As our lives continue to evolve with advances in technology, the built environment is becoming more integrated with...

Coworking Isn't Just for Start Ups

Coworking is disrupting the real estate industry as the two primary players — developers and coworking providers —...

Design Forecast - 10 Ways Workplace Design Keeps Talent Engaged

Employees work in different ways and benefit from different workstyle options.

Design Forecast - 5 Indicators That Retailers Are Selling Experiences Over Products

Retail is no longer about products; it’s about the relationship between a brand and its audience.

2016 Design Forecast - Lifestyle

Lifestyle Forecast: Leisure’s need for a customer experience that’s real, authentic, and seamless is a challenge for...

Design Forecast: Repositioning & Landlord Services

Exploring the top trends in building repositioning and landlord services, including modified entrances, curated...

Design Forecast: Office Buildings

Exploring the top design trends in office buildings, from workplace mobility to high-performance systems to mass...

Design Forecast:?Government & Defense

Exploring the top trends in government and defense, such as creative delivery methods, and reuse of existing...

Design Forecast: Digital Experience Design

Exploring the top trends in digital experience design, such as real-time mapping and why smart cities should be...

Taking on the Toughest Challenges Facing Cities

To make a positive difference, we have to design for the needs of people first.

Impact by Design — Form

Impact by Design — Water

Jenna Hill

WORK session: Workplace Revolution

PLAY session: Experience Counts

Designing the First Triple-Certified Green Building in China

Working with Johnson Controls on their new headquarters in Shanghai, we knew at the outset that the building would...

Now Boarding: A New Skylife

SFO's Terminal 2 ushers in air travel's sustainable, passenger-friendly era

The Socio-Economic Ecological Performance Index

Creating a tool to help urban planning projects address social and environmental impact without sacrificing...

Creating an Organizational Appetite for Sustainable Design

As people’s attitudes towards sustainability evolve alongside new modes of working, there is a real need for...

The Healthy Hotel: Designing for a New Experience

As today's health crisis is making people more aware of health and wellness, hotels are exploring new ways to...

COVID-19 and Building Performance: The Big Picture

From energy use to maintenance, lighting, and air quality, COVID-19 will change the equations we’ve been using to...

The Nation’s Capital of Sustainable Design

This post is part of a series in which we look at the critical role that the architecture and design play in global...

Transforming Walmart’s Home Office in Bentonville

The world’s largest retailer’s new home office delivers more than just top amenities and appealing aesthetics. It’s...

Polycentric Cities: The Future of Sustainable Urban Growth

As we approach a new normal for urban density, the cities that are best positioned for the future are evolving along...

Will California Lead the Way to Energy Independence?

Changes going on around the world are rapidly shifting the conversation around energy conservation and climate...

A Second Look at the Tower at PNC Plaza

It’s been almost a year since we checked in on progress of the Tower at PNC Plaza, and ground has already been...

A First Look at the Tower at PNC Plaza

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., is a leader in green design, having trademarked their approach to...

What's Old is New Again: Circumnavigating the Circular Economy

After conducting research using our own offices as case studies and analyzing the current client interest in the...

Fuel Cells Now

An Exploration of Fuel Cells as Sustainable Energy Solutions.

Size Matters Not: Designing Sustainable Airport Terminals

Situated in India’s Tamil Nadu region, Chennai Airport is a gateway to the southern part of the country, an area...

From Environmental Racism to Climate Justice

Here's how architects and designers can deliberately shape the built environment to further climate justice, combat...

Embracing Constraints to Build a More Sustainable Shanghai

The composed elegance of the 60-story One Museum Place in Shanghai's Jing'an District tells a story of breathtaking...

The Bullitt Center and the Future of Sustainable Buildings

The Bullitt Center, designed by the Miller Hull Partnership. Drawing ? Douglas Wittnebel Have you heard about the...

Future Cities, Future Buildings

Paradigm shifts in building design are accelerated when the ingredients for advanced solutions come together, and...

Today's Travelers Are Looking for All New Hotel Experiences

Hotels are appealing to next-gen travelers with boutique brands, coworking spaces, and multimodal lobbies.

Sorting It Out: The Key to Zero Waste Is in the Bin

If the team at San Francisco International Airport is to reach its zero waste goal in the next three years, the...

Sustainability | Research & Insight

Impact by Design 2018 is Gensler’s third annual publication assessing the performance and resilience of our work

Designing Innovative Solutions for Homelessness

Creating a plan to develop and implement Permanent Supportive Housing for the homeless quickly and inexpensively.

Teaching Environmentally Conscious Behavior

James Berry Elementary School, located in Houston, Texas, is a prime example of how to incorporate sustainable...

Toward Resilient Cities

In November 2012, as the Bay Area hosted Greenbuild—the world’s largest conference dedicated to sustainable...

Can Super Tall be Super Green? Part 2

In the previous post we established why creating sustainable super tall buildings is important. Let’s talk about...

Impact through Design

Investigating opportunities to mitigate climate change through design and architecture.

Vibrant Communities

In my continued exploration of place making and its relationship to retail real estate, I am excited to be involved...

How an Airport Can Make the World a Greener Place

Stories in the The New York Times, Fast Company, Inhabitat and more rave about T2’s unparalleled environment, where...

Can Super Tall be Super Green?

At this week’s Greenbuild Expo in Chicago, Peter Weingarten will participate on a panel that will examine the role...

Values-Based Retail

A look at six savvy companies serving up the good values their customers seek

California's New Gold Standard for Net Zero Developments

The latest innovation from the state that gave us blue jeans, popsicles, personal computers, skateboards, and the...

Designing the First Triple-Certified Green Building in China

Johnson Controls, a leading provider of intelligent building technology and energy efficiency solutions, is...

The Solutions to Climate Change Are Already at Our Fingertips

Because every project we work on is either part of the problem or part of the solution, we made a commitment to...

The Solutions to Climate Change Are Already at Our Fingertips

University of Kansas Capitol Federal Hall. Photo: Garrett Rowland. This post is part of a series in which we look at...

LEEDing the Way at Portland JetPort

Q: Why is LEED Gold certification so important to this project? A: It shows that the Jetport and City of Portland...

Design Forecast Singapore: Repositioning for Smart Cities

Gensler Singapore hosted a panel examining the impact that repositioning smart cities might have on a...

The Water Is Rising

With thoughtful resilience strategies, coastal cities can be part of the solution to deal with climate change.

Why Climate Action Is a Business Imperative

Banfield Pet Hospital. / Ryan Gobuty. This post is part of a series in which we look at the critical role that the...

Taking Cues from Nature: How Biomimicry Can Drive ROI for Hoteliers

Costa Rica Convention Center. . Today’s travelers expect a different standard of luxury that caters not only to...

Q&A With Aleksandar Sasha Zeljic

Chicago's skyline, like those in cities around the world, is about to be populated by more high rise buildings...

Cal-Australia Dreamin'

Addressing the realities of climate change through aspirational policy.

A Shattering Development for Glass-and-Steel Skyscrapers

If New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has his way, the Big Apple will go in an entirely different direction with its...

What Greenbuild 2017 Signals for the Future of the Green Building Movement

Partners HealthCare's new LEED Gold campus. This post is part of a series in which we look at the critical role that...

Urban Farmification: Big Box Underground

Exploring the opportunities and realities of submerging big box retail centers to support rooftop farming.

Manhattan’s Next Hot Neighborhood

An "up-zoning" proposal to encourage building renovation and neighborhood revitalization.

Integrating Sustainability Into the Learning Environment

When it comes to design, the higher education sector is often faced with a quandary: pursue trends or pursue...

Experimental Design: Pushing the Boundaries of Convention

The Tower at PNC Plaza, which is the greenest highrise in the United States, exemplifies the business community's...

Water and Resilience at the Clark

The reflecting pool at the Clark. Photo ? Gensler, Chris Leonard Photographer When visitors arrive at The Sterling...

Healthy by Design: How Design Impacts Well-Being

The Alexander Hotel. On a typical day most Americans spend 90 percent of their time indoors. Yet even from inside...

Natural Disasters Loom. Is Your Real Estate Portfolio Ready?

The price tag for natural disasters is rising. Rives Taylor explains how real estate owners can develop resilient...

Urban Design in the United Arab Emirates

“I love my job!” – I am a very lucky person to be able to say this every day. As an urban designer, my job is to...

Sustainability Trending

What can we learn from 600+ LEED scorecards? Comparative LEED data by project type and location reveals baseline...

Reviving a Rustbelt City

Why did PNC decide to build this project in this city? PNC is based in Pittsburgh, and they were looking for an...

How Workplace Design Can Ease Anxiety and Feelings of Isolation

Now that some workplaces are reopening, we’ll have to find a way to shake off these feelings in a world that remains...

Reimagining the Future of Cities as Healthy Cities

Epidemics have shaped our cities for a long time. The key question in this moment is, how can we use what we’re...

Could Low-Tech Design Prevent Climate Change-Influenced Pandemics?

We’ve known for a while that climate can play a role in the spread of viruses. How should we think about the...

Now Is the Time to Reinvest in Local Materials

COVID-19 could force us to improve construction's supply chain impact.

Adaptive Reuse Strategies for a Net-Zero Future

When developers choose adaptive reuse strategies over new builds, environmental advocates cheer.

The Future of Climate Policy Starts in Our Cities

Densely populated urban areas are epicenters for greenhouse gas emissions, but the policies made by local...

Climate Reprogramming

Fa?ade design is one example where performance, technology, and code changes come together to positively impact the...

Creating Transit-Oriented Communities in Los Angeles

When Phil Washington took the helm of the LA Metro in 2015, he spoke about connecting transit-oriented communities —...

As Wildfires Rage in California, Designing for Resilience Becomes Even More Urgent

The effects of climate change are increasingly evident — and urgent. What can we do to create resiliency and...

How the Built Environment Can Help the Climate Crisis

If global temperatures rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), a threshold that scientists now...

Preparing for the Future Now with Resilient Design

As global leaders come together to address how the collective community can help reduce CO2 emissions, we understand...

Will California Lead the Way to Energy Independence?

The CSU Northridge Sustainability + Recycling Center includes a rooftop photovoltaic system, which offsets the...

BoomTown: Common Interests Trump Common Ages

This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for all ages. “What if we could rethink...

Human Experience Is the Future of Design

We believe human experience is the future of design. People are the one constant in this era of dramatic...

Rethinking Public Transit

Exploring the new frontiers for mass public transit

Going for Gold: Has London’s 2012 Legacy Redefined Olympic Success?

mariusz kluzniak via flickr. Editor’s note: This blog post is part of the GenslerOn Rio 2016 blog series. With the...

Gensler at COP21: Art and Climate Change

Ian Mulcahey takes a look inside Ice Watch Paris at COP21. Video ? Gensler COP21 is an international diplomatic...

Roundtable: Work in 2025

How will the world of 2025 impact work and the workplace? Four experts in demographics, economics, transportation...

Tracking Building Performance at Portland International Jetport

Numbers and data have historically been the currency of engineers. But designers are now being asked to quantify how...

Wellness on the Corporate Campus

Confidential energy trading facility. Photographer: Tim Griffiths Recently I've been involved with a number of...

The Importance of Healthful Materials in Design for People

Buildings are fashioned by the choices of people who design and construct them. When completed, those choices impact...

Jackson Hole Airport Wins 2014 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture

For the design of Jackson Hole Airport, Gensler leveraged expertise from its aviation, hospitality and brand design...

SIU Announces New Transportation Education Center

Ever wonder what putting a collection of aviation techs, group of high flying air jockeys and a collection of...

Cities and Water: Friends or Foes?

When cities are confronted by sudden deluges, our immediate response is to get rid of the offending water, fast. In...

InSPAration: Lessons from the land of tea salons and foot massages

This blog post was originally published in HOTELS Magazine. The hotel experience is, by nature, a refuge from the...

Can cities make us healthier?

A few months ago, a fellow Gensler blogger raised this issue in relation to the workplace. The number of jobs...

Destination Airports

A new generation of terminals elevates the travel experience

Hospitality Sustainability Study

Can hotels afford to ignore sustainability? Utility costs were growing significantly faster than other operating...

How Will COVID-19 Shape Hospitality Architecture and Design?

Like previous epidemics, COVID-19 will transform the hospitality industry, altering how we live, work, and vacation

How Climate Change Impacts Our Health

Climate change has a direct impact on our health and wellbeing now and it will become only more acute in the future...

A Q&A with a Costa Rican Mayor about the Future of City Design

If there’s one area Costa Rica could improve upon, it’s the coexistence of its largest city San José with the...

Aiming for New Heights of User Experience With China’s Tall Buildings

As China continues to grow and many more people continue to move to cities, there must be a greater focus on the...

What Matters Most for Hospitality in Asia Pacific and the Middle East?

These are difficult times, but travel will resume and we recognize that great hotels not only anticipate market...

Will There Be a Climate Change Vaccine?

We didn’t have a warning of the COVID-19 crisis, but we do have a warning for the climate crisis up ahead.

Defining the Future of Our Cities: Five Areas of Opportunity for a Post-Pandemic World

We are witnessing global disruption at an unprecedented scale. But if we can live though disruptions as a new...

Sustainability | Research & Insight

In Impact by Design 2020, Gensler introduces Strategies for Climate Resilience to improve the impact on climate...

Redefining Wellness in the Face of Pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis is causing us to redefine all our work around the concept of wellness and re-examine the...

Design Forecast Denver: Shaping the Future of Our City

Gensler Denver hosted a discussion about challenges facing cities such as affordable housing, mobility, and climate...

Design Forecast Las Vegas: Shaping the Future of Work

Gensler Las Vegas hosted a conversation on topics such as top office amenities, branding and identity, and how...

In Africa, Your Solar Panels Don’t Mean Squat

The idea of sustainability, as we currently understand it, just doesn’t hold for the developing world.

A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Tackling Rural Waste Management

On Isla Chira, a remote island in Costa Rica's Gulf of Nicoya, a recent groundbreaking showcases Gensler’s...

From Smart Buildings to Intelligent Placemaking

Data and AI are being invisibly woven into everything around us. As we move towards an intelligence economy where...

On Climate Change and Hope

Despite rising carbon dioxide emissions, we can still tackle global warming.

From Railroads to Electric Scooters: How Mobility Shapes the City of Today and Tomorrow

From GPS-enabled electric scooters, to driverless cars, and even aerial ride-share services, disruptive mobility is...

The Costs of Climate Change and the Promise of Resilience

If there’s one clear lesson from the recent National Climate Assessment, it’s that we need to anticipate and prepare...

Germany Workplace Survey 2019

A deep dive into the changing German workplace and how they can improve productivity and satisfaction through...

How the Built Environment Can Help the Climate Crisis

The recent report delivered to the United Nations by the International Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.) paints a...

Design Forecast 2018

This issue discusses the role of design in creating the places where people live, work, and play in urban centers...

Employee Engagement: A Core Business Strategy

Successful business leaders realize that having engaged employees is not an HR program, but a core business strategy.

LA Forward: Embracing the Future of Mobility

Future visions for aligning mobility and development – LA Forward. This post is part of a series, “What Makes My...

LA Forward: Creating Vibrant Neighborhoods

Confidential mixed-use project. This post is part of a series, “What Makes My City Livable?” on how cities make the...

What Makes My City Livable? Moving LA Forward.

This post is part of a series, “What Makes My City Livable?” on how cities make the experience of living more...

Employee Engagement: A Core Business Strategy

Successful business leaders realize that having engaged employees is not an HR program, but a core business...

Uncovering Providencia: Gensler Goes to Venice Biennale

In April and May, Gensler made its first appearance at the La Biennale di Venezia (15th International Architecture...

The 3D Printing Revolution

We’re always being told that the world is constantly changing and that innovation is increasing at an ever growing...

Passive House: Sell It to Me!

Source: deposit photos Looking for a new home? What if I told you that a Passive House could reduce your annual...

Gensler Las Vegas Proposes The Cashman Battery

A view of the Ring, an education center of information and communication at the heart of the new Cashman Battery...

Architects for a Better Tomorrow, Today

I remember my first brush with politics like it was yesterday. I was in third grade, and there was a nasty rumor...

Planning Resilient Communities

The word “resilience” sparks thoughts of natural disasters. Three current Gensler projects show that it’s really...

Rooftop Retreat for a D.C. Not-for-Profit

The rooftop conference center at the American Psychological Association's D.C. office. “Oh, wow!” I’ve overheard...

The American Dream in an Urbanized America

The Baby Boomers and their parents made home ownership a central component of the American Dream. Millennials are...

World of Leisure: Latin America

The 2014 FIFA World Cup proved that when it comes to leisure, Latin America is a player. Sports are big, but the...

What is the Function of Libraries in Our New “Wired” World?

The exterior of the San Jacinto College Lee Davis Library. Will books go the way of papyrus scrolls—relics of...

Work in the City: The Transportation Issue

Work in the City is a yearlong initiative directed at key drivers redefining how the rapidly changing landscape of...

Future Gazing – City Vision 2050

It's time to re-imagine the future of London. Gensler’s London office is situated within the City of London, or the...

Brand Engagement: Brand at Work

Mars Food Headquarters, Rancho Dominguez, California. . When you ask someone what their favorite brand is, they...

Daiichi Properties Helps Boost Philippines’ Real Estate Boom

World Plaza, a 27-storey office building, is conveniently located at one of the country’s premier business...

A Pioneering Perspective on Pershing Square

Town Square Los Angeles from Gensler LA on Vimeo. As a resident of Downtown Los Angeles, Gensler’s LA office is...

Town Square: Bangalore

Both rural and urban settlements in India have exhibited a unique way of defining town squares. In many ways, the...

The Resurgence of the Department Store: Social Responsibility

Over the past year Kathleen Jordan, a principal in Gensler’s New York office and leader in the firm’s Retail...

In a Branding Sprint: Competing for your country or your sponsor?

How much should corporate branding, like the Nike swoosh, be a part of Olympic uniform design? Uniform supplier...

From 2 Weeks to 50 Years - Designing Olympic Facilities That Last Beyond the Games

Historically, the cities hosting the Summer Olympic Games have a propensity to get caught up trying to convey the...

Mills, mindsets, Mendocino and memories?

The town's name comes from Cape Mendocino, named by early Spanish navigators in honor of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy...

All Squared Away

22squared’s new office makes a pitch for the ad agency’s creative culture

A First Look at the NYSID Graduate School

RKA: How does the new graduate school project fulfill NYSID’s mission and your vision for the school as the new...

Retail Banking Trends

Do physical bank branches still hold value? As banking transactions move online, bank branches must shift their...

Are We Ready for the Heat? Desert-Appropriate Strategies for a Resilient City of the Future

Rising temperatures and drought are becoming a climate reality around the world. As designers in this increasingly...

How Airport Design Can Restore Passenger Confidence

To get people flying again, the aviation industry needs to restore passenger confidence in the airport as an...

The Future Workplace Will Embrace a Hybrid Reality

We won't be returning to our former offices. Instead, we will be moving forward to a new place. It might look...

Reports of the Death of the Workplace Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

For millions of office workers around the world, work has been consciously uncoupled from its usual location for the...

Resilient Cities Rely on Resilient Food Systems

The pandemic is disrupting already fragile food supply chains. To ensure resilience and food security for the...

New Opportunities for Mobility Amid COVID-19

Our wholesale shift in live-work-play behaviors as a result of COVID-19 have provided us an opportunity to rebalance...

Design Forecast New York: Designing a Better World: Equitable and Actionable Solutions

Gensler’s New York office hosted a discussion on how we can build a better, more equitable city for future...

Design Forecast Newport Beach: Shaping the Future of Orange County

Gensler’s Newport Beach office hosted a panel discussion on topics ranging from mobility to interconnected...

Design Forecast Newark: Designing Cities for People

Gensler’s New Jersey office hosted a panel discussion on topics ranging from social equity, to new modes of...

Design Forecast Chicago: A New Vision for Growth & Optimism

Gensler Chicago hosted a conversation around formulating a collective vision for an economically thriving and...

A Case for Imperfect Cities: Greater Impact with Purposeful Chaos 非理性城市开发：寻求效率和影响力的平衡

As we consider the future of cities, we must also be cognizant of the forces of change that will impact how we...

10 Key Design Interventions for a Healthier, Happier, and More Productive Workplace

Healthy, happier people are more productive, more likely to collaborate, and more likely to innovate in ways that...

A Workplace Renewed - The Ford Foundation for Social Justice

Renovation of the Foundation’s landmark headquarters creates a modern workplace experience.

Climate Change Solutions for Workplace Design

Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We have an opportunity to make a big impact.

Data and the Intelligent Workplace

As the building blocks of smart cities, intelligent workplaces combine data and design to help people work smarter.

Community Impact Puts People First

At Gensler, we put people first. Nowhere does that shine through stronger than in our strategic model for Community...

Urbanism and the Pursuit of Happiness

Cities are magnets for those who seek better jobs, opportunities, and more diverse communities. But does city life...

Houston's ByDesign Group Explores Local Ideas for the Future of Cities

A group of young architects and designers at Gensler Houston are proposing big, bold ideas for the future of their...

Investigating Downtown Neighborhood Resurgence

Analyzing what drives downtown resurgence and its surrounding areas.

A Path Toward Net Zero Energy Buildings

Creating a roadmap for 80% reduction in predicted energy performance by 2030.

Micromobility, Third Lanes, and Tomorrow’s Streetscapes

From scooters to e-bikes, new modes of mobility are starting to reshape our streets.

Sizing Up the Future of Airports

Airports big and small are welcoming travelers with terminals that reflect their locale.

Smart Cities Should Be Human Cities

A layer of technology isn’t what makes a city “smart.” The tech must be used for purpose — seeking to bring the...

The Third Lane: Rethinking Street Design for the 21st Century

What does the explosive growth of shared electric scooters tell us about the changing dynamics of city life? And how...

Why Planning Is Essential to Solving California’s Housing Crisis

Cities across the country need more housing but aren’t building it. In California, this challenge has become a...

The Healing Power of Green Spaces

Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice Entrance garden. & Luxigon. Over the last decade, there has been a renewed awareness...

Designing Innovative Solutions for Chronic Homelessness

Homelessness is on the rise in the United States for the first time since 2010, with both Los Angeles and the entire...

Forecasting Design Shifts Under Future Vehicle Technologies

Creating a spatial prediction model to respond to shared, electric, and autonomous vehicles and their impact on the...

Climate Change: A Crisis and an Opportunity

This post is part of a series in which we look at the critical role that the architecture and design play in global...

Sound Health: How Tranquility Rooms Can Heal Caregivers

Editor’s note: This blog post is part of a series on sound health. In hospital environments, staff can be inundated...

Revitalizing Downtown San José: Design’s Evolution and Impact

Downtown San José’s thriving Farmer’s Market is just one example of the City’s increasing efforts to adapt existing...

Envisioning Boston’s Transit Future: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a …?

Let’s start with a riddle. What moves 3,600 people per hour, is completely silent, runs on renewable electricity...

Wellbeing in the Workplace Means More Cake for Everyone

Graphic ? Gensler Wellbeing in the workplace means more cake for everyone. Yes, you read that correctly! We don’t...

Regional Renaissance: Fuelling the Midlands Engine in England

The UK, London and the South East have, for many years, been the focus of the nation’s conversations around economic...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Placemaking

This post is part of a blog series related to Dialogue 30, "The Livability Issue.” As we wait to see the full...

BoomTown: A Future for All Ages

Image Jeff Sheldon, unsplash.com This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for...

Retail, Dinner and Debate

Omni-channel, digital, branded, augmented-reality. With the retail industry in a constant state of flux and consumer...

Dialogue 30

The Livability Issue

On Track for Livable Growth

A survey of cities using transit-served urban centers to spark renewal.

High-Performance Computer Brings Billion Dollar Returns

? Matthew McFarland | Gensler We all can imagine how many people have bought a high-performance sports car—in some...

From "Blackbeard’s Ghost" to Louis Kahn, Design Director and Principal David Epstein Unveils His Influences

A look into a designer's early inspirations.

What Corporate Campuses and Healthcare Campuses Can Learn from Each Other

This post is part of a series related to Uniting Healthcare + Community. Several months ago, my son fractured his...

How Will Mobility's Future Impact Our Cities?

This blog piece is based on a Q+A discussion held with Gensler designers Richard Jacob, Michaela Winter-Taylor and...

Join Gensler at SXSW 2017

Gensler is once again headed to SXSW (March 12-15, 2017) and we’d love to connect with you on the ground in Austin...

Mixing It Up: Jazz, Hip-hop and Urban Real Estate

New Changning, Shanghai, China. This post is part of a series discussing the findings and implications of Gensler’s...

The Set List: How Will Brands Use the Internet of Things to Help Customers Engage with Products and Services?

Editor’s note: this blog is the ninth in a series discussing trends and insights into the world around us. Mobile...

Alignment for Impact

Aligning business, community, and design processes for maximum impact.

CTBUH 2016 Conference: Vertical Urbanization

With 42 million inhabitants, set to grow to 120 million by 2050, China’s Pearl River Delta is experiencing...

Office Amenities Galore Coming to Chicago’s West Loop

Fulton West is right at home in Chicago's West Loop, a destination to live, work and play. Chicago’s West Loop is...

Gensler at SXSW Eco 2016: Transforming Public Place

Our world is rapidly urbanizing and our relationship with the city is being redefined. To address this, we must...

UK Workplace Survey 2016: Bridging the Gap

Gensler’s 2016 UK Workplace Survey marked the official launch of the survey’s key findings and extended report....

How to Choose the Right Amenities for Your Office

Editor's Note: This post is part of a series on the state of the financial services industry. “You can’t always get...

Gensler Partners with the City of Bogotá on Community Center Initiative

Gensler Partners with the City of Bogotá on Community Center Initiative

Tech Trends of 2016: One-Size-Doesn't-Fit-All

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series on 2016 tech trends. One-Size-Doesn’t-Fit-All In the age of readily...

Tech Trends of 2016: 3D Printing

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series on 2016 tech trends. Freedom to Customize The 3D printing revolution is...

Tokyo Olympic Legacy: Navigation Infrastructure

Shuets Udono Read this blog post in Japanese. Tokyo is the second largest city in the world. Futuristic, vibrant and...

Tech Trends of 2016: Designing the Workplace of Tomorrow

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series on 2016 tech trends. As mentioned in our last post on Tech Meta Trends...

Unleashing the #PowerOfUs

This post is part of our series on Vibrant Communities. On June 11, I had the privilege of giving a TEDx talk, at...

The Future Has Arrived: World’s First 3D Printed Office is Inaugurated in Dubai

Video: Office of the Future in #Dubai, world’s first 3D printed office https://t.co/aR4xxnl8i3 — Dubai Media Office...

The Value of Designing Healthy Workplaces

Most conversations about wellbeing dwell on exercise routines, dietary regimens, and stress busting tactics from...

Transform, Revitalize, Refresh

Tailored design interventions can position existing properties for long-term success. Discussions about office...

The Future of Metro IdeaJAM – London and Tokyo: Part Two

The first day of discussion and concept creation at the IdeaJAM in Tokyo The second post in our IdeasJAM blog series...

Natural Urbanism

How can we gather and visualize data to better understand the impact of ecosystem services on our urban centers?

Where the Streets Have No Name

Jordan Berta. I see a picture of a girl sitting near New York City’s Highline, gazing out on an empty street. It’s...

Q&A with Alessandro Zoppini and Ryan Sickman

Alessandro Zoppini (left) and Ryan Sickman (right). Gensler recently announced two new strategic hires who will...

A Pop Up with Purpose

The Heifer pop-up at Westfield Shopping Center in San Francisco, Calif. Designed by Gensler. ‘Tis the season for...

Research Charts Our Future

Research informed design yields creative, forward-thinking design solutions for people, businesses, and communities...

Cahuenga Crossing: Bringing Open Space to Hollywood

Gensler's vision for Cahuenga Crossing. Hollywood, as a federally defined Enterprise Zone, is critically lacking...

Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower tells the compelling story of the making of China’s tallest building. The book captures the emotion...

The Tower at PNC Plaza – A Breath of Fresh Air

The Tower at PNC Plaza. On October 1, The Tower at PNC Plaza opened to the public, completing a five year design and...

Under the Hood: Office Buildings and Headquarters

The pressures that drive workplace change, especially the need to accommodate more people in less space, have a...

Mexico City: An Emerging Market

Mariela Buendia-Corrochano is co-managing director and design director in Gensler’s Mexico City office. Here...

Airports without Waiting?

What’s next for airport terminal design and planning? Keeping passengers moving is key for tomorrow’s...

Defining a “Sense of Place”: The View from Los Angeles

Playa Jefferson, Looking through the Commons. In my last post, I attempted to define what designers mean when we say...

Wellbeing and the Workplace

Source: http://www.scmp.com/ I’m sure that few of you missed the headlines suggesting that sitting is the new...

Education Gets Its Game On

From middle schools to universities, the push is on to speed up learning and spark people’s creativity. Tech figures...

Experience is Everything

Today experience, as opposed to ownership, status, or image, is everything, and retailers are experimenting with new...

Q+A with Art Gensler

Gensler Principal Maddy Burke-Vigeland sat down with Art to talk about his experience as a student at Cornell, and...

Q+A with Arthur Gensler

Today, the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) celebrates the opening of its new...

Design Update: Shanghai Tower

Inspired by Shanghai’s tradition of parks and neighborhoods, China’s tallest mixed-use building will complete the...

Construction Update: The Langham Place Hotel

KIC Development Design proposal 2011, Yangpu, Shanghai, In 2011 Gensler design team had opportunity to collaborate...

The Museum of Tomorrow: 8 Things to Know about Cultural institutions in today’s society

Digital Revolution @ Barbican Last year Gensler London’s Education and Culture practice area hosted its first...

Brick and Mortar: Still the Preferred Shopping Channel

For all the talk of investing in digital platforms, brick-and-mortar still wins out as the preferred shopping...

Curating the Right Mix

Can China create better cities? For China’s cities to grow while maintaining a sense of community, we must enrich...

Burden of Future Proof: Facile Learning Environments in a Tech-Savvy Age

Gensler's Chicago office recently hosted the first installment of the Dialogues with Gensler series. Dialogues with...

Gensler @ AUCCCD: Catalyzing Well-being, Resilience, and Innovation on the Academic Campus

Gensler's New York office. A recent survey conducted by the American Psychological Association (APA) revealed an...

How Brick and Mortar Enables Online Retail

Almost 90 percent of all retail sales are transacted in stores, and 95 percent of all retail sales are captured by...

Fighting Climate Change Through Tall Building Design

Well-designed supertall buildings like the Shanghai Tower, pictured on the right, can help reduce energy usage...

Work in the City: Urbanization on the Edge

The lines between traditionally segregated cities and suburbs are blurring as the breakdown between the spatial...

We Promote Good Design by Celebrating It

Gensler's annual Design Excellence Awards help propel the quality of design ideas and solutions we provide clients...

The ROI of Human Experience

Air quality in China has been the subject of much press over the past few years, much of it negative. In addition to...

4 Trends Shaping the Future of Data Centers

As iPhone 6 mania continues to sweep around the globe this week, and people are newly focused on how mobile...

What Is the Function of Libraries in Our New Wired World

The desire to work in a physical environment surrounded by other people is why libraries remain important places for...

Project Spotlight: The Breakaway Group

How do you create a workplace that reflects a company’s unique culture and values while augmenting workers’ ability...

We’ve Topped Off! The Tower at PNC Plaza Reaches Full Height

Rendering ? Gensler, Photo ? PNC It seems like just yesterday, but was in fact 2012 when we broke ground on PNC’s...

Collaboration and the Executive Architect

Maddy Burke-Vigeland, Gary Hilderbrand, Tadao Ando and Annabelle Selldorf at the grand re-opening of the Clark Art...

10 Key Design Interventions for a Healthier, Happier and More Productive Workplace

In case you haven’t noticed, health and wellness has quietly become a consequential issue within the business...

Happiness (Or is it really purpose?) at Work

Happy workers are more productive workers. One of the challenges facing design firms today is finding ways to create...

From Transit Oriented Development to Transit Oriented Healthy Districts

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are responsible for 63% of annual deaths, making them the leading cause of death...

Re-Worked

Two recent Gensler research initiatives have harnessed the crowdsourced power of multiple cultural, geographic, and...

What is Hack-able?

A hack-able building in London. What will the commercial office building of the future look like? In answering that...

Shanghai Tower: A View from the Top

Few vistas are more breathtaking than an urban landscape seen from above. Amateur photographer Wei Gensheng, a crane...

Reinventing the Workplace: Being Well, Working Well

What if this was your workplace? Scottsdale Healthcare Healing Garden Project. . Reinventing the Workplace is a...

Incheon International Airport Breaks Ground on Terminal 2

Today, Incheon International Airport (ICN), the country’s busiest airport, and the only airport in the world to be...

Reimagining ColorPlus

An Indian retail icon looks to Gensler to refresh and redefine its brand

What's Your Solution? #summerstudio13 Concludes

The #summerstudio13 program is up for a #SxSW Place by Design Award, and you can vote for 'Future...

The Future of New Jersey: Rethinking the Possibilities for the Suburban Campus

Urbanization is upon us, and in a somewhat ironic twist, many of the corporations providing solutions to the impact...

Town Square: San Francisco

The Town Square Initiative is a yearlong volunteer effort in which Gensler designers set out to unearth and...

Urban Interventions and Speculations

and Shawn Gehle What are the true limiters to future urban development? This proposition ignited CAPACITY, the...

Town Square Initiative: New York

The Town Square Initiative is a yearlong volunteer effort in which Gensler designers set out to unearth and...

Daiichi Properties Rebrands With One World Place

On May 12, the Gensler-designed One World Place tower won Best Office Development – Philippines at the Asia Pacific...

The New Retail Identity of ColorPlus

In today’s global marketplace, the biggest brands are crossing borders in search of new customers. In India in...

Suburbia - A Wasteland No Longer

What if all that changed? That may sound like a tall order, but it is indeed very possible. In fact, that change is...

Innovation to Support CREs' Challenge

What is the future of corporate real estate? Real estate executives are hungry for success metrics that go well...

Librii: Five Points Toward an Evolving Library

One billion people live in Africa, but less than three percent of the population has access to broadband Internet...

Resilience Isn't Just About Engineering; Social Connections Matter, Too

Converting neglected urban environments into healthy, resilient neighborhoods hinges on several factors. One such...

Incremental Urbanism at the MLK Medical Center Campus

"Incremental urbanism" is the idea that revitalization efforts in urban environments will only take hold if...

Resurgence of the Department Store

Can department stores compete again? Many department stores currently sit on a precipice: sales are languishing...

Goodwill Edited: Transforming Secondhand to Vintage Chic

Thrifting has become a staple for young people in urban enclaves. The appeal of putting a unique stamp on an outfit...

Design Update: The Tower at PNC Plaza

To a real estate portfolio replete with green branch banks, offices and mixed-use towers, PNC Financial Services...

The New Urban Planning: Look Upward, not Outward

I like to think of myself as a nomadic architect. I've travelled around Asia for almost 30 years, doing work in many...

Airport Cities

Denver and Seoul see airports keying economic growth and global standing

An Olympic Legacy: The Courage of an Aspirational Vision

After the new World and Olympic Records are inked in the books (albeit digitally), the athletes, media and visitors...

A Whole New Ballgame

The sophisticated business of planning successful sports venues

The Golden Arches go for the Green

Like all things Olympic, I was struck by the imagery of the newest and largest McDonald's that just opened at the...

Can Cities Make Us Healthy? (A Response)

In my last post on the connection between cities and health I outlined what I see as both an opportunity and a...

No Bucks, No Buck Rogers!

What most people don’t realize is that virtually no U.S. airports rely on local tax revenues. They are fully...

A New Paradigm for Sports Venues: Community Connections

Stadiums are big and monolithic, there’s no getting around it. And almost by definition, stadiums are venues that...

Commercial Office Buildings 2020

What drives success in commercial office buildings? Office building design must evolve to support changing work...

Airports after 9/11

The building type most quickly changed by 9/11 was airports. After the attacks, the Transportation Security...

Design Update: The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE

The first downtown tower in 20 years marks L.A. LIVE as Southern California's premier setting for sports...

Design Update: Creating CityCenter

Once a generation, Las Vegas reinvents itself. In 2005, master plan in hand, MGM MIRAGE asked Gensler to join it in...

The 2006 U.S. Workplace Survey

How does design drive business performance? High-performance work environments are an opportunity to improve...

Duke Kunshan University

Just west of Shanghai, this five-building complex is a model of sustainable development, organized around a vast...

Herman Miller

The renowned furniture designer and manufacturer’s European headquarters combines office and showroom space to...

Travis County Civil and Family Courts

Having outgrown its previous space, Travis County formed a public/private partnership to construct a new Civil and...

Rio 2016 Olympic Master Plan

Gensler led a top-finishing competition consortium of architects, urban designers and environmental engineers in the...

World Plaza

World Plaza, a 27-story office building located in Fort Bonifacio Global City, was designed to integrate with the...

Eastwood Academy

This K-12 school in the planned city of Lusail in Qatar will be an immersive, sustainable and innovative environment...

San Diego International Airport, Terminal 2 Parking Plaza

This three-story, 3,000-space parking plaza at the San Diego International Airport is not a typical parking...

New Carrollton

This public-private partnership looks to turn an under-performing transit-adjacent site into a vibrant...

The Finance Centre Tower

The Finance Centre tower is Daiichi Properties’ latest addition to the Fort Bonifacio Global City skyline. With 1.3...

San Diego State University, Tula Community Center

The Tula Community Center is all about connectivity and community engagement. The facility creates a sustainable...

Federal Aviation Administration Southwest Regional Headquarters

One of the country’s largest government developments, the FAA’s new environmentally sensitive build-to-suit...

Riverbed Technology

Inspired by the concept of biophilia – that humans are bonded instinctively to nature – Riverbed’s new workplace...

The Tower at PNC Plaza

Completed in October 2015, The Tower at PNC Plaza marks a new step in PNC’s efforts to revive downtown Pittsburgh...

The New York Times Company

Transparent news reporting is essential to the success of media companies such as The New York Times Company. The...

CityCenter

Gensler served as Executive Architect for CityCenter, the largest private development in the United States. With 18...

2000 Avenue of the Stars

With its frame-like form, 2000 Avenue of the Stars pays homage to the iconic Century Plaza Towers while maintaining...

Brooks Trailhead

Brooks’ new flagship retail store appeals to multiple senses, engaging runners and reflecting its passion for its...

Shanghai Tower

Sited adjacent the neighboring Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center in the heart of the Lujiazui...

The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries

The Beacon Institute’s global center for the study and conservation of waterways is housed in this LEED? Gold...

Santa Monica College Core Performance Center

This new building at the heart of the Santa Monica College campus serves as a focal point for the physical...

King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy

Anticipating a global shift to clean and renewable energy, the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy...

Iskandar Financial District

One of nine flagship zones overlooking the Straits of Johor between Malaysia and Singapore, the Iskandar Financial...

Port of Long Beach

Seeking to exemplify environmental leadership while meeting its operational and functional needs, the Port of Long...

Johns Hopkins Medicine International

Gensler initially evaluated several buildings for Johns Hopkins Medicine International’s new headquarters and...

Olson

When this rapidly expanding agency secured 125,000 square feet in Minneapolis’s historic Ford Center building...

James Berry Elementary?School

Serving 750 pre-K through 5th grade students, this environmental sciences magnet school showcases sustainability...

World Food Prize

The World Food Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture, honors individuals working to improve the...

AT&T Foundry

AT&T sought to create a highly adaptable workshop-lab-incubator where developers, inventors, suppliers and students...

The George R. Brown Convention Center

The 2025 Master Plan illustrates a best-case scenario for the public/private development of downtown Houston’s...

San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 2

Designed as representative of the Bay Area’s culture and aesthetic, the newly renovated Terminal 2 (SFO T2)...

Soledad Business Park

This business park renovation transformed a dated R&D facility into a modern, LEED?-certified workplace. Along with...

University of California, Berkeley, Blum Center for Developing Economies

Bringing together multidisciplinary teams to develop solutions to alleviate global poverty, the Blum Center complex...

Patriots Plaza

Patriots Plaza, the first speculative office complex to meet post-9/11 security requirements, represents a building...

Reed Smith LLP, London

The driving goal for Reed Smith’s flagship London office was to foster relationships. Space for this was made ample...

Financial Services (Full-Service Insurance) Company

Data center requirements often consign design to a box — typically a windowless one. Rather than conform to...

Community Hospital @ Yishun

Singapore is seeking to care for one of Asia’s fastest-aging populations; and the Community Hospital @ Yishun aims...

Global Seawater Initiative

Global Seawater, Inc. (GSI) formed in February 2007 with the pioneering vision of rethinking the planet’s energy and...

Walmart Home Office

Walmart’s new 350-acre home office will be fully integrated into the community, and inclusive of the natural beauty...

Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2): Las Vegas

As part of the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration’s Strong Cities, Strong Communities...

Millenia, Think Campus

Millenia is a cluster of world-class campuses, each with a unique, but complementary, identity and purpose. The...

Frisco Public Library

This beautiful adaptive reuse project gives new life to a structure that once manufactured both rockets and chicken...

6900 Layton

6900 Layton represents the latest addition to Denver’s thriving transit-oriented development Belleview Station. This...

Viettel Group Headquarters

Viettel Group’s new headquarters marks a new ideal for the corporate world with an elegant design that seamlessly...

555 Collins Street

Charter Hall has appointed Gensler, in collaboration with Cox Architecture, to design a new 35-storey tower at 555...

One Post Office Square

Gensler is transforming this prominently-located 1980s building into a premier office tower, with new standards for...

BP Westlake Campus

Consistently ranked as one of Houston’s top 10 places to work, BP’s Westlake Campus serves a workforce of nearly...

Conservation International

Attaining LEED Gold certification at its Crystal City workplace marked the first step in Conservation International...

Easton Park Community Center

The Easton Park Community Center, located in the heart of its South Austin neighborhood, is designed to promote a...

AltaSea

This public-private partnership is transforming 35 acres of land at the Port of Los Angeles into an ocean-side...

Corferias 2030

After successful completion of the competition to design the new Bogotá International Convention Center (Agora...

16 Chestnut

16 Chestnut, an eye-catching structure at the prominent location of 16th and Chestnut, completes the area...

Fairmont Austin

Located downtown, next to the Austin Convention Center, this new 37-story, 1.4-million square-foot hotel is the...

Renmin University of China, East Campus

Renmin is a unique university, founded in, and for, the people that work, play and learn at its Beijing campus. To...

LoyaltyOne

For 25 years, LoyaltyOne has changed the landscape of rewards programs through innovation, technology, and building...

685 Third Avenue Pocket Park

Gensler provided robust building repositioning services for not-for-profit TIAA CREF to improve 685 Third Avenue’s...

Illumina Array, Granta Park

Illumina’s new European HQ at Granta Park puts people and ecosystems at the helm of its innovative landscape plan...

Incheon International Airport

Newly opened for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Incheon Terminal 2 is designed to surpass all current...

California State University, San Marcos, Field House

Designed to meet NCAA Division II standards, this 26,000-square-foot expansion of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House...

Etsy

Blurring the lines between workplace and habitat, Etsy’s 200,000-square-foot headquarters is one of the largest...

Designing a Healthy LA

Designing a Healthy LA is the first city document to address the physical environment's impact on the health and...

Domain Northside

Domain Northside is the third phase of a 304-acre live/work/play development that offers a variety of retail...

Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse

An aggressive schedule, the desire for LEED? certification, and a goal of reducing energy consumption by 30 percent...

One World Place

Gensler’s initial role to develop an exterior enclosure for Daiichi Property’s office tower quickly grew in scope to...

84.51° Centre

This new mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Cincinnati encompasses the headquarters for consumer...

North First Street

This transit-oriented master plan aims to attract and support high-tech companies seeking a dynamic, vibrant and...

Reinsurance Group of America

The St. Louis offices of Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a global leader in life and health reinsurance, had...

San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 2: Brand Design

Designed in conjunction with the expansion and renovation of San Francisco International Airport’s Terminal 2...

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences and JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE

Gensler designed this 54-story tower as the visual anchor for the larger six-block sports and entertainment district...

Nixon Peabody LLP

Nixon Peabody is the first U.S. law office to achieve LEED? certification. With one of the oldest environmental law...

Panduit

During the last decade, Gensler has partnered with this global manufacturer and distributor of electrical solutions...

Hotel Palomar Philadelphia

An adaptive re-use of Philadelphia’s historic “Architects Building,” this sophisticated 230-room hotel is Kimpton’s...

Hess Tower

Houston’s first downtown LEED? Platinum office building, Hess Tower is a truly 21st century facility. Originally...

AMCOL International

A manufacturer of specialty mineral products, AMCOL partnered with Gensler to design a headquarters that showcases...

222 Second Street: Brand Design

As developer of this new 26-story, mixed-use tower in rapidly changing downtown San Francisco, Tishman Speyer sought...

Reed Smith LLP, Philadelphia

Mirroring a nationwide trend in law office design, Reed Smith’s new Philadelphia office employs highly efficient...

Shimao Shenzhen Qianhai Canal City

Enlisted to design the first pilot development in the Qianhai New Development Zone in Shenzhen, Gensler worked to...

The Clark

Gensler served as executive architect and sustainability consultant for a series of transformative projects on the...

Grand Hyatt Incheon

The Grand Hyatt Incheon serves as a premier venue for international conferences and business meetings in Northeast...

Detroit Lions Headquarters and Training Facility

This new 225,000-square-foot home for Detroit’s professional football team incorporates a 95,000-square-foot indoor...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Refurbishment

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a recognized leader in advancing patient care, education and research. In...

Fletcher Jones Mercedes-Benz of Chicago

Adjacent Chicago’s heavily trafficked Kennedy Expressway, this new dealership provides a showcase for Fletcher...

Cushman & Wakefield

The new headquarters of the world's largest global real estate service company affirms its vision for the next 20...

New York School of Interior Design

With its new graduate facility, the nearly century-old New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) has a center that...

American Multinational Energy Corporation

In consolidating workers from two buildings to one, this energy firm gained a dynamic work environment that...

Goodyear: Brand Design

In Goodyear’s new Akron headquarters, the company’s culture and legacy have been brought to life through an...

Gensler Atlanta

Overlooking Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street in Midtown, Gensler’s local office celebrates and elevates the...

Golden Gate Hotel & Casino

In renovating the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino, the most historic hotel and casino in Las Vegas dating back to 1906...

William James College

Following a decade of major growth, William James College (formerly the Massachusetts School of Professional...

Cleveland Clinic Data Center

The Clinic treats 4.6 million patients a year through 26 health institutes, and its medical records (which are...

Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Gratz Center

Sited on the Magnificent Mile and across from the John Hancock Tower, Fourth Church is one of Chicago’s most visible...

Southwest Energy Company Renovation/Repurpose

When the economic downturn scrapped a ground-up project, Gensler’s design team had a new directive: repurpose an...

Portland Jetport

Portland Jetport had grown sporadically, through multiple additions over the years, and suffered a lack of...

Venables Bell & Partners

This cutting-edge advertising firm sits high above one of the most visible corners in San Francisco’s Union Square...

Glumac

For its Portland office renovation, engineering firm Glumac turned to Gensler for an environment that would...

Ropes & Gray, LLP

Following previous successful collaborations between Gensler and Ropes & Gray, elements of commonality across...

The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, D.C.

The Pew Charitable Trusts sought to grow and co-locate all of its D.C. programs in one impressive facility. The...

BHP Billiton

For its new six-story headquarters, Australian-based BHP Billiton wanted a workplace that would inspire and nurture...

Fairmont Pittsburgh

Gensler considered and designed every detail of this office/hotel/condominium project — from its strategic location...

Mineta San Jose International Airport

To initiate a $1.3 billion airport modernization program, Gensler composed a master plan encompassing a new Terminal...

Three PNC Plaza

Located at the intersection of the major commercial and cultural corridors of Fifth and Liberty Avenues, Three PNC...

University of Illinois NCSA Petascale Computing Facility

This state-of-the-art, LEED?-NC Gold-certified building, designed to withstand an EF-3 tornado, provides a secure...

High-Performance Research Computing Center at Princeton University

Situated on Princeton’s Forrestal campus, this 47,000 square-foot project is the new home to powerful research...

Phoenix Convention Center, South Building Renovation

This state-of-the art convention and meeting facility serves as Arizona’s “front door,” attracting visitors, tourism...

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

Through a GSA design-build lease-back competition, the DEA sought a new headquarters facility that would serve as an...

Banner Health Technology Center

The design and documentation of this two-story, 65,000-square-foot facility were completed using BIM modeling...

Walter P Moore

As part of its rebranding program, this well-respected engineering firm wanted its new headquarters in a downtown...

Center on Halsted

Center on Halsted is the Midwest's most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and securing...

Centro Internacional de Negocios (CIN)

Together with CIN’s developer, Gensler designed this new 40,000-square-foot office building in the border city of...

The Culver Studios Master Plan

The Culver Studios, an icon of the movie industry, began operations in 1918. Since then, it has been home to a range...

Financial Services (Banking) Company

The final piece of the client's three-facility construction program, this state-of-the-art data center will be among...

The London Underline

With the highest population of its 2,000-year history, London is having to think creatively about maximizing the...

Physicians Medical Park, Torrance Memorial Medical Center

Adjacent to the Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Physicians Medical Park is a new ambulatory care, multi-tenant...

Project Cardinal

Targeting LEED? Gold certification, this project serves as the prototype of the client’s next-generation data center...

Shanghai Tower Retail Podium

As part of the design for the dramatic 128-story Shanghai Tower in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district, Gensler...

Fast Company

Burke-Vigeland in a Fast Company article featuring The Clark’s new sustainable water features.

Fast Company

The Tower at PNC Plaza is featured in Fast Company for its sustainable features and "breathing" technology.

EcoBuilding Pulse

Jackson Hole Airport’s sustainable strategies highlighted in EcoBuilding Pulse’s look at the AIA’s 2014 Honor Awards

Architecture and Interiors India Magazine

Gensler Bangalore Managing Director Anupama Sharma reflected on how sustainable design in the post-COVID-19...

Interior Furniture Design Magazine

Atelier, the adaptive furniture solution Gensler designed alongside Fantoni, was recognized at the IDA Design...

Detroit Free Press

Hartman discusses how sustainable urban strategies are key to Detroit’s rebirth in Detroit Free Press

Snap

Carroll and Briefel discuss Etsy headquarters’ sustainable design in Snap.

Fast Company

Etsy's new highly sustainable headquarters in Brooklyn is featured in Fast Company.

Design Futures Council

Jennifer McKenzie discusses the role of young professionals in designing a more sustainable future in Design Futures...

Inhabitat

Inhabitat explains how the Clark Art Institute’s sustainable design saved 1,000,000 gallons of water

China Daily

Gilchrist discusses tall-building trends, the Shanghai Tower and "sustainable vertical urbanism” in China Daily.

Denver Post

The Denver Post highlights The Alliance Center as a global, sustainable model for historic buildings.

Orange County Register

Brower in the Orange County Register on sustainable design practices and Gensler’s Los Angeles office.

Neon Tommy

Brower on downtown LA “leading the charge” on sustainable design in Neon Tommy

Houston Chronicle

Stuart in the Houston Chronicle on making Capitol Tower the city’s "most sustainable building."

NuWire Investor

Boyer in NuWire Investor on retail centers adopting sustainable design practices

Floor Focus

Burry tells Floor Focus that sustainable design is trending healthier

The Telegraph

Xia tells The Telegraph that creating a “sustainable, human” building is the goal for Shanghai Tower

Metropolis

Metropolis highlights Johnson Controls Headquarters, Asia Pacific, as "showcase of sustainable design"

Love That Design

Gensler team wins "Most Sustainable" at Surge's Design, Dine, and Make a Difference Gala

Architect Magazine

Tranel is quoted on the Shanghai Tower's sustainable heating and cooling technology in Architect Magazine.

USGBC+

Cohen emphasizes Gensler’s commitment to sustainable design and partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council in...

Curbed

Uhlir highlights Shanghai Tower’s sustainable design, including its sky gardens and double-skin glass fa?ade, in...

Interiors & Sources

Ko in Interiors & Sources on The Tower at PNC Plaza’s sustainable design.

Casa Galeria

García outlines sustainable design strategies in Casa Galeria

Casa Galeria

Bermudez in Casa Galeria on the Costa Rica Convention Center, its role as a tourist destination, and its sustainable...

South by Southwest (SxSW) Eco “Reframing the Spaces Between: From Blight to Bright, Reimagining the Allen Street Pedestrian Mall,” Gensler

Place by Design Competition – Sustainable Innovation Award

Electrical Contractor

Lieu on Gensler Los Angeles’ sustainable lighting in Electrical Contractor.

Inhabitat

Inhabitat highlights the sustainable features planned for PNC’s net-zero energy branch

ENR

Gensler is ranked the #1 Top Green Design Firm of 2020 by ENR, which features the Electrical Vehicle Enclave, a...

Commercial Observer

Gensler New York was awarded the Green Future Award for the firm’s sustainability efforts at the 2020 Gensler New...

Fast Company

Gensler's Rives Taylor: The cities of the 21st century will be defined by water

Inhabitat

Inhabitat on the ultra-modern makeover that is Santa Monica’s Shore Hotel

Fast Company

Extreme heat kills more Americans annually than other disasters, but the public isn’t as wary of it. To add a sense...

City Limits

Gensler's Mallory Taub explained the inequitable impacts of extreme heat on Black and Latino communities in New York...

Prism

Three Gensler-designed projects were recognized in AIA’s 2020 Committee on the Environment Top Ten Awards honoring...

Building and Decor

Smart City, a brand new carpet plank system by the Mohawk Group in collaboration with Gensler, takes inspiration...

HARC Research

Design Resilience Leader Rives Taylor weighs in on the effects on building operations and design during the COVID-19...

U.S Green Building Council

The U.S Green Building Council spotlights The HUB RiNo Station, a transit-oriented office and mixed-use development...

The Washington Post

John Mulling discusses the design concepts behind the Etsy headquarters.

The New York Times

A Gensler-led renovation revives the iconic Ford Foundation.

Voice of America News

Gensler's Rives Taylor: Urban designers look to nature as solutions for flood-prone cities

Here's how designers are trying to solve for wildfire resiliency.

Crain's Detroit Business

Détroit is the New Black to reopen downtown Detroit store.

World Green Building Council

Gensler joins World Green Building Council's Corporate Advisory Board for 2018

Green Building & Design

Cohen describes the impact of autonomous vehicles on our urban future

Urban Land

Taylor discusses how to leverage real estate to achieve climate goals, in Urban Land

Interior Design

Mulling discusses Gensler’s design for new Etsy Headquarters in Brooklyn in Interior Design.

Architectural Digest

Shanghai Tower named “World's Best New Skyscraper” by CTBUH, according to Architectural Digest.

Business Insider

Shanghai Tower named the “most beautiful” skyscraper in the world, according to Business Insider.

Architectural Record

Architectural Record explores Gensler’s design for Etsy headquarters.

Fast Company

Etsy's new ultra-sustainable headquarters is featured in Fast Company.

Business Insider

Take a photo tour of Etsy's new perk-filled office in Business Insider.

Building Design+Construction

The Tower at PNC Plaza is featured as a “game changer” in Building Design+Construction.

Architectural Digest

The Shanghai Tower is among “Seven New Buildings That Are Redefining Architecture,” according to Architectural...

Wired

The Shanghai Tower is among the architecture "that captivated us in 2015," according to Wired.

Architectural Digest

The Shanghai Tower and The Tower at PNC Plaza are two “beautiful eco-friendly offices from around the world,”...

The Architectural Review

Shanghai Tower’s "ambitious architecture sets the building apart from all others," finds The Architectural Review.

Architectural Record

The design that sets Shanghai Tower apart from its neighboring supertalls featured in Architectural Record.

ENR Mountain States The Alliance Center for Sustainable Colorado

2015 Best Projects – Merit Award, Green Project

The Atlantic

Gilchrist discusses Shanghai Tower’s design and Shanghai’s role as an epicenter of tall buildings in The Atlantic.

Financial Times

Tour "Shanghai's green skyscraper," the Shanghai Tower, in a Financial Times video.

Fast Company

DeWolfe discusses Glumac’s Shanghai headquarters, the first project to apply for Living Building Challenge project...

D Real Estate

D Real Estate highlights plans for Patronus data center in Frisco, Texas

RIBAJ.com

The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Journal highlights the history, renovation and collaboration involved in...

The Wall Street Journal

Burke-Vigeland in The Wall Street Journal's museum review of The Clark, a sustainably designed art museum in...

Architectural Record

Architectural Record highlights the Shanghai Tower in an article about the future of Shanghai.

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe features the long-awaited opening of the renovated Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a...

The Artery

Burke-Vigeland in The Artery on the renovated and expanded Clark Art Institute, a museum connecting its architecture...

Austin Business Journal

The Austin Business Journal features Gensler’s MetLife renovation project

Houston Business Journal

The Houston Business Journal reports on plans to implode the former Houston Club building and replace it with the...

Austin Business Journal

Austin Business Journal on Gensler’s living-room furniture made from repurposed cardboard, auctioned for Earth Day...

American Chamber of Commerce

Lee gives American Chamber of Commerce an inside look at the Shanghai Tower and its economic, political and social...

Steelcase 360

Leiserowitz and Bader in Steelcase 360 on the importance of “Designing for Wellbeing” in the workplace

Retrofit Magazine

Rives Taylor on whether zero waste is truly an achievable goal in Retrofit Magazine

Office Insight

Ritchie in officeinsight on BIMFA’s new sustainability certification program for workplace furniture

Real Estate BISNOW

Real Estate BISNOW features the future Hotel Alessandra, a luxury hotel expected to transform downtown Houston come...

Pubic Radio International

Public Radio International highlights Kamin’s story on the connection between Chicago architecture firms and China's...

ASID Icon

Duffy Day’s presentation on “healthy, healing spaces” featured in ASID Icon

Outside magazine

Outside magazine named SFO T3 this year’s “Best Airport” with Jackson Hole Airport as the runner-up

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette examines the innovative glass skin being manufactured for the PNC Plaza tower.

Architizer

Architizer looks at constructing Shanghai Tower, "the world’s tallest wind tunnel."

Gizmodo

Gizmodo highlights Jackson Hole Airport among the “11 Best American-Designed Buildings of the Year”

Hospitality Design

Upchurch in Hospitality Design on the community input involved in El Encanto’s restoration

Architect

Goldstein in Architect on innovation and teaching Penn’s integrated product design class

The Financial Times

The Financial Times highlights the "world’s greenest skyscraper."

AZ|RE

Silverberg speaks with AZ|RE about judging the 2013 AIA Arizona Design Awards

The Economist

Art Gensler on Shanghai Tower’s innovations for The Economist’s "The World in 2014."

Inhabitat

Inhabitat profiles Gensler’s vision for a more resilient New York City

ENR Mountain States

ENR Mountain States on Turner’s offices transforming a historic Denver building

The Daily Mail

Art Gensler, in The Daily Mail, says Shanghai Tower redefines the city in new ways.

DesignIntelligence

DesignIntelligence announces Sanders among the Senior Fellows of the Design Futures Council

Federal Computing Week

Pogue on “making room for innovation” at the GSA in Federal Computing Week.

Houston Chronicle

Strombom speaks to the Houston Chronicle about Hughes Landing’s office building design.

EcoBuilding Pulse

Goldstein, Sheils and Briggs in EcoBuilding Pulse on PNC Bank’s net-zero energy bank

Knowledge@Wharton

Williamson on the value of flexible workplace strategy for Knowledge@Wharton

Urban Land

SFO T2 numbers among Urban Land’s survey of airports rooted in their local context

KA Connect

Tompkins on applying research to complex design problems for KA Connect

Interiors & Sources

Carroll pens a piece on “the smarter workplace” for Interiors & Sources

Interiors & Sources

Covarrubias on workplace design turning client objections into opportunities for Interiors & Sources.

Future360.tv

Future360.tv heralds Gensler’s “hackable building” concept as a trend to follow.

GreenBiz

GreenBiz looks at PNC Bank’s net-zero energy branch bank in Fort Lauderdale

Contract magazine 22squared – Winner (Sustainable) Nicole Germano – Winner (Student)

34th Annual Interiors Awards 2013

Gizmag

Ko speaks to aims for the “world’s greenest skyscraper” in Gizmag

Inhabitat

Inhabitat looks ahead to the future Tower at PNC Plaza now that it’s broken ground.

Popular Science

Popular Science highlights Gensler’s re-imagined FBI headquarters.

San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports on Latham & Watkins’ major move with comment from Fullbright

The Financial Brand

The Financial Brand on a PNC branch producing more energy than it consumes

Tilt-Up Today

Heffernan discusses UCSD’s Health Sciences and Medical Center in Tilt-up Today feature story

Metal Architecture

Gross profiled by Metal Architecture as “man on mission critical”

Interiors and Sources

Williamson writes for Interiors and Sources on the federal workplace’s design innovation opportunities.

San Francisco Chronicle

Burry and Cubbison in the San Francisco Chronicle on design’s embrace of made-local

Boutique Design

Kraus on integrating spa modalities into guest room suites in Boutique Design

GreenSource

Howder points out Facebook’s energy-saving accomplishments in GreenSource

Interior Design

Clemens Davis on moving Whole Foods from “market to desktop” in Interior Design

Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal

BASF’s “progressive and green” workplace profiled in Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal

TEDxConnecticutCollege

Winey envisions a future of “vertical cities” at TEDxConnecticutCollege.

Architectural Record

The Skyscraper Museum’s Willis on Shanghai Tower in Architectural Record.

ArchDaily

ArchDaily checks in on Shanghai Tower’s in-progress construction.

Architect

Manno on the employee benefits of Calgary’s new Bow building in Architect

China Daily

Winey explains the excitement of China’s “living laboratory” in China Daily

CTBUH Journal

The CTBUH Journal offers Shanghai Tower as a supertall case study

CleanTechies

Weingarten’s CleanTechies Q&A on sustainability in China and Shanghai Tower

Skyscraper Museum

Jun Xia presents Shanghai Tower for the Skyscraper Museum’s “Shanghai Skyline”

CTBUH

Art Gensler discusses Shanghai Tower at the CTBUH’s Chicago Conference

e-Oculus

Shanghai Tower one of the Skyscraper Museum’s pearls in e-Oculus

FORA.tv

Winey’s Shanghai Tower address to The Asia Society covered by FORA.tv

Time

Shanghai Tower named to Time’s “The Green Design 100” list

Building

Shanghai Tower draws Building’s attention at MIPIM in Cannes, France

Forbes

Shanghai Tower’s groundbreaking covered by Forbes

Gensler Reinforces Sustainability Commitment by Doubling Impact in Just Two Years

World’s largest architecture, design and planning firm leads discussion on building performance and CO2 emissions in...

Green Light for Gensler’s Extension to Landsec’s Portland House

LONDON – Landsec and Gensler have secured a detailed planning application for the repositioning of Portland House in...

Hiro Aso Elected as Mayor’s Design Advocate

LONDON — Gensler is proud to announce that Hiro Aso has been announced as one of 50 Design Advocates, selected by...

Westin Denver International Airport Earns First LEED Platinum Status Among Major U.S. Airport Hotels

DENVER – March 16, 2017 – Denver International Airport (DEN) today announced that its innovative Hotel and Transit...

Gensler-Designed Etsy HQ Achieves Living Building Challenge Certification

NEW YORK – Etsy, Inc. announced today that after extensive sustainability work conducted alongside Gensler, Etsy’s...

Five Gensler Architects Elevated to AIA College of Fellows in 2019

NEW YORK — Gensler is proud to announce that five of its leading architects were elevated to the American Institute...

Gensler Unveils a Redesign of the Ford Foundation’s New York City Headquarters Focused on the Visitor Experience

Opening in December 2018, The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice will offer an enhanced experience for all...

Gensler Design Director Randy Guillot Elevated to FAIA

WASHINGTON — Gensler is proud to announce that Randy Guillot has been elevated to the College of Fellows of the...