Podcast
From Stores to Stories: Immersive Experience and the Future of Retail
Gensler’s Bob Weis, Rob Bischoff, and Lara Marrero, unpack what truly makes an experience immersive and the role designers play in shaping the landscape.
Blog
Using Experience Strategy to Design What People Truly Want
By vividly depicting potential users early in the design process, the resulting room, building, or campus is more likely to meet their needs.
Blog
Elevating the Retail Experience: 4 Lessons From Airport Lounge Design
Here are four design insights from airport lounge environments that retailers can use to elevate retail consumer environments and experiences.
Blog
AI and the Future of Smart(er) Cities
Our recent work is starting to bring into focus some shared characteristics and design principles for urban-scale technology and AI.
Blog
What Makes a Great Retail Experience? Community, Connection, and Exhibition
Astute retail and hospitality brands recognize that in-person connection is a vital part of their offerings. But what does that visceral experience actually look like?
Blog
As New Work Patterns Emerge, the Workplace Must Respond
Gensler’s exploratory survey of office workers in six U.S. cities aims to better understand how emerging factors impact how and why employees use the office.
In The Media
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Inc.com
What Leaders Should Consider As They Redesign Their Offices for the New Era of Work
Inc.com interviewed Workplace Research Director Janet Pogue McLaurin about considerations for the future of office design, including dividing the workplace into “neighborhoods” to support different types of work.
Blog
What We’ve Learned by Assessing More Than 1,000 Potential Office-to-Residential Conversions
We’ve developed a process for evaluating existing office buildings to determine if they are candidates for multifamily residential conversions.
In The Media
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The Wall Street Journal
The Challenges Developers Face in Converting Empty Offices Into Apartments
The Wall Street Journal quoted Gensler Building Transformation & Adaptive Reuse Leader Steven Paynter about challenges such as higher interest rates and long approval times for permits.
In The Media
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Chicago Tribune
The Oscar Mike Sports & Training Center Stretches the Boundaries of Accessibility in a One-of-a-Kind Facility for Wounded Veterans
Gensler Principal Brett Taylor explains, “These types of facilities are few and far between and they’re necessary for veterans to recover physically and mentally.”
Blog
Why We Need Bold Change to Revitalize Our Cities
While there are points of concern for the current state of our city centers, this is also a unique opportunity to create meaningful and lasting change.
Blog
The Future of Central Business Districts Depends on More Than Office Buildings
Gensler’s latest City Pulse reveals how downtowns can adapt to a changing world — and deliver great experiences.
Insight
Gensler Product Sustainability Standards
Gensler has made a commitment to reduce the carbon emissions on our projects by 2030. A critical step in that process is setting sustainability standards for the products that we specify every day on behalf of our clients.
We are creating a better world through the power of design.
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Every day we impact millions of people’s lives with the spaces we create, which is why people are at the center of everything we do. Designing for the human experience is what allows us to tackle the toughest challenges facing cities and shape a more resilient and equitable future for everyone.
Learn more about GenslerFEATURED PROJECTS
One Westside
Los Angeles, California
This ambitious adaptive reuse project transforms the Westside Pavilion shopping mall, a relic from the 1980s, into a cutting-edge urban office complex.
Fifth + Broadway
Nashville, Tennessee
Fifth + Broadway is a new mixed-use development that integrates with the vibrant urban fabric of Music City by inserting rich, pedestrian-focused spaces.
10 Gresham Street
London, United Kingdom
Gensler partnered with CBRE IM to reimagine 10 Gresham Street, an office building transformation that will usher in a new sustainable future in London.
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