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Design Forecast: Cities & Urban Design

Exploring the top trends in urban design, from urban regeneration to smart technologies.

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 - How Single-Use Spaces Are Becoming Obsolete

Mixed-use environments unlock the possibilities of a diverse, urban lifestyle and breathe new life into cities.

LIVE session: The Future of Cities

Gensler Design Forecast 2014

Our 2014 Design Forecast highlights the trends that will shape design in the coming decade. They reflect six big...

Bringing Movies Back to Main Street

Main Street in Chatham, Mass. With all the talk lately about global urbanization, vertical communities, and the role...

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...

Curating the Right Mix

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

Urban Farmification: Big Box Underground

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

Roundtable: Work in 2025

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

Now Is the Time to Reinvest in Local Materials

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

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...

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...

Growth, Millennials and the Multinodal City

Image: Wikimedia. Driven by robust growth, New York’s Department of City Planning projected the city’s population to...

2016 Design Forecast LIVE: The Future of Cities

The city is the main arena of future change, Andy Cohen told participants in Design Forecast LIVE event on June...

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...

Cities and the Public Health: Our New Challenge in Urban Planning

Dense cities remain our best bet for providing opportunities and connections — if they’re designed to support...

How We're Innovating to Create Housing for All

To respond to the global need for more housing — and more affordable housing — we’re exploring ideas that include...

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...

Design Forecast

Over half the world’s people now live in cities — a reality that is already introducing tough new challenges. In...

Managing for Creativity

As our world becomes more urbanized and connected, a company’s competitiveness and speed determine success. To keep...

Urbanism and the Pursuit of Happiness

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

Designing the Cities of the Future

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

What We're Listening to Now

Five Gensler designers in the firm’s brand design, retail, hospitality, and other lifestyle practitioners share the...

Design Forecast 2018

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

Design and the Art of the Game App

Illustration: Doug Wittnebel. We sat down with design director Doug Wittnebel in the Gensler Oakland office to...

You Are Considered a Consumer, Even at Work

We are all consumers. We are increasingly living in an economy driven by the consumption of experiences, even at...

The Game-Changer for Cities: Driverless Cars

We can regain our city streets for people as the driverless car revolution takes hold. It's not too soon to get...

Dialogue 30

The Livability Issue

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...

Outliers, Tipping Points and Design Research

Design is different today because the world is changing faster than ever, making design research the key to...

Tech Trends of 2016: Well-Being as an Investment

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series on 2016 tech trends. Employee well-being is a wise investment in a...

Tech Trends of 2016: Leaving a Local Fingerprint

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series on 2016 tech trends. Tech companies are making a conscious effort to...

The Evolution of Workplace in India

Investigating changes in the Indian workplace alongside its cultural, political, and economic history.

A Workplace Designed for the Innovation Economy

The ability to drive new innovation is becoming an essential requirement for organizations to stay competitive...

How Can the Workplace Impact Innovation?

Gensler’s U.S. Workplace Survey 2016 is the latest in a series that builds on over a decade of workplace research...

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...

Gensler Design Forecast 2016

An exploration of factors that are likely to transform everyday life in ways that reshape its design and experience.

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...

Designing Vibrant Communities

Vibrant communities are the building blocks of our fast-paced, increasingly urban world. To help cities thrive...

The Top Retail Trends of Interest 2015

Heywood Chan / Gensler As 2015 draws to a close, let’s not forget the exciting retail trends we saw take hold in a...

Considering India: Opening Doors with a Culturally Tailored Approach

Gensler's schematic design for a new residential community on a 40-hectare site near Hyderabad, the capital of...

In the Mix

Work was a silo, but now we stack, embed, and overlay it with the rest of life to create great synergies and...

Brands Go Global

Why do some brands thrive in new markets while others fall flat? An understanding of local context and an openness...

Q+A with Kent Kleinman, Dean of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Cornell’s new Gensler-designed facilities in lower Manhattan, AAP NYC. Rendering ? Gensler With the recent...

Parks in the sky? Subterranean bike paths? Meet the livable city, designed in 3-D

The Shanghai Tower. Some of the most cutting-edge things going on behind-the-scenes in architecture today involve...

Vertical Urbanism and the Livable Cities of Tomorrow

Open spaces – the parks and piazzas that give cities a sense of character and community – are in short supply. To...

Re-tooling the Suburban Office Building

Center 78 in Warren, New Jersey. I once read that over 80 percent of the office buildings in New Jersey were built...

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...

Reimagining Cities

Envisioning a better urban future by redefining the Town Square

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...

Open Spaces

What is the commercial value of open space? Property owners, developers, and investors are willing to pay a premium...

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...

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...