Blog
The 20 Cities Attracting the Most Newcomers
New city residents often leave within five years. To remain successful, these magnetic cities must also engage and retain their new populations.
Blog
The New Workplace Experiences That People Crave
Employees want to move past the corporate workplace experience to more creative, natural, and residential environments.
Blog
What Draws People to Cities — and What Makes Them Stay?
Gensler’s City Pulse 2025 research offers insights into the factors attracting people to cities and compelling them to stay.
Blog
Urban Design’s Renaissance: How San Francisco Is Leading the Way
Cities everywhere are rethinking not just how they look and function, but how they can better serve the people who live in them. Few cities are as poised to lead this transformation as San Francisco.
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Commercial Observer
Commercial Observer’s Power 100 List Recognized Gensler’s Leadership
Gensler Global Co-Chairs Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins and Co-CEOs Jordan Goldstein and Elizabeth Brink recognized among the top leaders in the commercial real estate industry.
Blog
How the Nighttime Economy Is Rewriting Urban Design
Cities around the world are beginning to take the nighttime economy seriously — not as a separate or secondary system, but as a vital counterpart to daytime urban life.
Video
5 Takeaways on What’s Shaping Decisions to Move to, Stay In, and Leave Cities in 2025
Explore what's driving urban migration trends in 2025, based on findings from 33,000 urbanites surveyed across 65 global cities.
Blog
Birmingham’s Renaissance: The City of 100 Quarters
How the city’s next evolution is embracing both innovation and heritage to shape a vibrant future.
In The Media
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Propmodo
Gensler’s City Pulse 2025 Reveals That While Affordability Draws People to Cities, Emotional Connection Keeps Them There
Global Cities Research Leader Sofia Song noted the research provides “evidence of just how powerful pride can be” for a city’s growth and to drive long-term retention.
Press Release
Gensler Reimagines the Future of Architecture with ‘The 500-Year Building’ During the 2025 Venice Biennale
At the Time Space Existence exhibition, Gensler’s installation envisions architecture as a living system — powered by creativity, technology, and hope.
Blog
The New Club Workplace: More Than an Amenity
The next generation of tenants wants an experience-driven, unconventional shared amenity space, prompting landlords to rethink their offerings.
Blog
Agency Is the New Workplace Amenity
By designing enough of the right spaces within the workplace, employers can create environments where employees have agency to choose the best space for their needs.
Blog
Live Event Amenities: The Next Frontier for Creative Workplaces
Companies are investing in live event-ready amenity spaces to attract talent, fuel creative work, and create buzz in the workplace.
In The Media
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The New York Times
Palisades Charter High School Welcomed Students to Its New Campus After the LA Wildfires
The high school welcomed 2,500 students to its campus, designed by Gensler. In transforming a former Sears department store into the new campus, Gensler’s Kelly Farrell said the goal was “to give it purpose and place.”
Blog
The 18-Hour Campus: Strategies for Creating Vibrant, Round-the-Clock Hubs
Here are three strategies universities are adopting to create environments where students, faculty, and communities engage throughout the day and night.
Sustainability
Resilience by Design
Our Resilience by Design Report presents solutions for transforming the built environment to achieve a net zero carbon impact across our portfolio and the design industry.
Video
Gensler’s New Carbon Benchmarking Tool (gBlox.CO2) Helps Designers Create More Resilient Buildings
gBlox.CO2 evaluates carbon impact at the earliest stages of design, comparing material choices and design strategies in real time, while cutting down complex analysis stages to just minutes.
Blog
How the AI Gold Rush Is Influencing Data Center Design Trends
Gensler’s Critical Facilities leaders discuss how the AI boom is influencing the shape, speed, and operations of data center design.
Press Release
Two Gensler Principals Join IIDA’s Prestigious College of Fellows for 2025
Gensler is proud to announce that Principals Laurent Lisimachio and Jim Prendergast have been inducted into the prestigious International Interior Design Association (IIDA) College of Fellows for 2025.
Blog
Right-Sizing the Community Hospital: Optimizing for the Future
As U.S. health systems prepare for an uncertain future, our prototype hospital looks to expand care with fewer beds.
Insight
5 Trends Shaping Design in 2025
Here are the 5 most important and actionable themes shaping design in 2025, based on over 100 trends across 33 industries around the world.
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