Addressing Climate Change Is the Moral and Business Imperative of Our Time
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Now is the time to prepare for a resilient future.
A recent study by the Gensler Research Institute found that 72% of adults in the U.S. believe that climate change is an urgent issue, but only 18% feel as though their communities are prepared to tackle it. Design resilience strategies offer a clear roadmap for how to prepare and take action against the worst effects of climate change, including the impact it will have on business, human health and wellbeing, and issues of equity. Gensler is committed to a net zero future for our clients, our communities, and our industry.
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SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS
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Under Armour Global Headquarters
Baltimore, Maryland
Under Armour’s new global headquarters building in Baltimore’s Port Covington reaffirms the company’s long-term resilience commitment. The proposed building, constructed almost entirely of mass timber, aims to achieve LEED v4 Platinum Certification, net zero energy operations, and the WELL...
Springdale Green
Austin, Texas
Located on the site of a former brownfield, the reimagined Springdale Green campus represents a new kind of office campus designed to attract the creative workforce with extensive outdoor amenities, newly restored landscape, and a focus on sustainability and wellness. Nestled among a restored...
Gensler Seattle Office Redesign
Seattle, Washington
The recently redesigned Gensler Seattle office features a new office concept centered around the idea of a Workshop – a non-precious, scrappy space to experiment, connect, share ideas, and evolve. Occupying 15,000 square feet at 1200 6th Avenue, within the calming tree canopy of Freeway Park...
LinkedIn Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
LinkedIn partnered with Gensler to design its new 200,000-square-foot campus in Omaha, Nebraska — the first portfolio project embracing LinkedIn’s Future of Work Strategy, developed alongside Gensler. The tech company enlisted Gensler’s technology and sustainable design teams to rethink not only...
633 Folsom
San Francisco, California
Embodying a dynamic building reuse story, the reimagined 633 Folsom reduces both embodied and operational carbon, features a facade design that is optimized for maximum daylighting, and breathes new life into the Folsom Street corridor. By preserving and upgrading the existing concrete super...
Morning Consult
Washington, D.C.
Morning Consult’s new LEED-Certified headquarters creates a three-dimensional brand experience that evokes the energy and grit required to create powerful forms of change. Vibrant vistas, inviting spaces, and warm, tactile materials are the foundation for this fresh and sustainable approach to...
San Francisco International Airport, T1 Net Zero Program
San Francisco, California
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has set the goal of becoming the first airport in the world to achieve zero carbon, zero waste, and zero net energy. At SFO’s Terminal 1, the challenge of reaching net zero is particularly acute as passenger traffic is projected to increase 70% by 2025...
Frisco Public Library
Frisco, Texas
This beautiful adaptive reuse project gives new life to a structure that once manufactured both rockets and chicken nuggets. Its future design as a public library will celebrate the ecological history of the Blackland Prairie, as well as facilitate dynamic, active learning that empowers its...
CSULB Parkside North Residence Hall and Housing Administration Building
Long Beach, California
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) enlisted Gensler’s climate and sustainability services to help reach the university’s goal of achieving net-zero status by 2030. Two ambitious projects establish a culture of sustainability and set a tone for the future of the campus. As USGBC...
The Link
Denver, Colorado
By transforming an underutilized former telecom building into a modern, amenity-rich mixed-use office tower, The Link demonstrates the potential of thoughtful adaptive reuse. Through tactical, transformational sustainable design, Gensler built upon the existing foundations, structure, and core...
Tipner West
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
The most ambitious expansion to the city of Portsmouth in over a century, Tipner Peninsular is being transformed into an exemplar maritime community that will set a new standard for sustainable living and working with health and wellbeing at its core. Building upon the traditions of Portsmouth’s...
The Acre
London, United Kingdom
When Gensler approached the repositioning of a unique but obsolete Brutalist building designed by noted architect Richard Seifert in London’s Covent Garden, the team recognized the unrealized potential of the existing building early in the process. To that effect, the design team developed a...
Torre Universal Sustainability
San José, Costa Rica
Torre Universal, a modern, class A+ corporate office and retail center in San José, strives to be a benchmark of sustainable development, multimodal mobility, and vertical urbanism. The building uses sophisticated materials and high-performance design, including a unitized glazing curtain wall...
Fifth + Tillery
Austin, Texas
Reviving a post-industrial site in East Austin, Fifth + Tillery reimagines a large warehouse footprint as a vibrant indoor-outdoor creative office building. Marking the transition from a lush neighborhood to an industrial district, the design concept for the building infuses its industrial...
The IIBC — Imperial International Business City
Lagos, Nigeria
Africa’s first smart-eco city, The IIBC — Imperial International Business City — is a 200-hectare sustainable mixed-use residential destination located on a reclaimed island in Lagos Lagoon. Gensler architects centered the master plan for this exemplar community model around serene environments...
Café Britt Headquarters
Heredia, Costa Rica
As the leading coffee producer of organic shade-grown coffee in Costa Rica, Café Britt tapped Gensler to design a highly sustainable headquarters that would mirror the company’s core values, embody the brand’s environmental responsibility ethos, and provide a progressive work environment to...
Viettel Group Headquarters
Hanoi, Vietnam
Viettel Group’s new headquarters marks a new ideal for the corporate world with an elegant design that seamlessly integrates both workplace and landscape spaces. Winner of the Asia Pacific International Property Awards 2019, this LEED Silver-Certified building is the first completed...
citizenM
Seattle, Washington
Located in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, citizenM is the city’s first modular hotel and a model for sustainable hotel design. The 264-guestroom building is comprised of 228 modules that were fully finished in the factory to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of traditional...
First United Bank
Fredericksburg, Texas
The first full mass timber project in Texas, First United Bank in Fredericksburg uses cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels that sequester carbon dioxide instead of emitting it. With a focus on cost-effective, local materials, the project is the first in the U.S. to use CLT panels with Southern...
BP Westlake Campus
Houston, Texas
Consistently ranked as one of Houston’s top 10 places to work, BP’s Westlake Campus serves a workforce of nearly 9,000 and consistently pushes the envelope in offering top-notch amenities, prototyping alternative ways to work and promoting employee wellness. Since 1984, Gensler had partnered...
Walmart Home Office
Bentonville, Arkansas
Walmart’s new 350-acre home office will be fully integrated into the community, and inclusive of the natural beauty of Northwest Arkansas. Gensler is the Design Architect for the office buildings and is the Executive Architect for the overall campus design. The campus honors Walmart’s heritage...
Holt Renfrew Sustainable Guidelines
Toronto, Ontario
Canadian luxury department store chain Holt Renfrew tapped Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability consultants to develop its sustainable design and construction guidelines. Through a series of workshops, analytics, and strategy, Gensler developed the Holt Renfrew Green Build Guidelines, a...
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Conservation International
Arlington, Virginia
Attaining LEED Gold certification at its Crystal City workplace marked the first step in Conservation International (CI)'s extensive commitment to create an environment that holistically embodies the organization's mission. The environmental nonprofit's mindful approach impacted the design...
World Plaza
Manila, Philippines
World Plaza, a 27-story office building located in Fort Bonifacio Global City, was designed to integrate with the surrounding business and hospitality districts at BGC. Developed by Daiichi Properties, the 700,000-square-foot building was completed in 2017. The building includes ground floor...
UPCycle
Austin, Texas
Guided by the concepts of “upcycling,” thoughtful adaptive reuse, and a sustainable design approach, Gensler repositioned a dilapidated old warehouse in the heart of Austin’s East Side into creative offices with associated amenities, revitalizing the area as a vibrant neighborhood hub. Gensler’s...
Centro de Convenciones de Costa Rica
Heredia, Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s first convention center is a milestone in sustainable design in a country that pioneered eco-tourism and remains committed to a forward-looking green ethos. Sitting in a former brownfield, this 15,000-square-meter facility doesn’t just preach sustainability; it practices it. Parking...
Fairmont Austin
Austin, Texas
Located downtown, next to the Austin Convention Center, this new 37-story, 1.4-million square-foot hotel is the third-tallest building in the city. With 1,048 four-star rooms and several luxury suites, the hotel offers first-class amenities and panoramic views of Lady Bird Lake and the...
The Finance Centre Tower
Manila, Philippines
The Finance Centre tower is Daiichi Properties’ latest addition to the Fort Bonifacio Global City skyline. With 1.3 million square feet of mixed-use program, the 44-story tower features two floors of retail, a health and wellness amenity floor, 31 floors of office workspace, and a...
CSU Northridge Student Sustainability Center
Northridge, California
Home to the university’s recycling operations and its Institute for Sustainability, this LEED Platinum facility is a landmark achievement for the CSU Northridge campus in the school’s ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship. Through net zero consulting and LEED certification management...
Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)
Houston, Texas
Gensler designed the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) headquarters to embody the not-for-profit’s sustainability mission and serve as a prototype for affordable, high-performing buildings and environmental stewardship. The LEED Platinum-certified, Net Zero Energy (NZE) building was built...
California State University, San Marcos, Field House
San Marcos, California
Designed to meet NCAA Division II standards, this 26,000-square-foot expansion of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House and Student Union joins sports and student life in a multipurpose hub for recreation and wellness on the California State University (CSU) San Marcos campus. In addition to a new...
Etsy
Brooklyn, New York
With intelligent sustainable design strategies and thoughtful use of materials, Etsy’s 200,000-square-foot headquarters is one of the largest Living Building Challenge (LBC) Petal-Certified buildings in New York City. LBC Certification is administered by the International Living Future Institute...
Federal Aviation Administration Southwest Regional Headquarters
Fort Worth, Texas
One of the country’s largest government developments, the FAA’s new environmentally sensitive build-to-suit headquarters will consolidate more than 1,300 of the FAA’s current Southwest Region workforce. The unique design of this six-story building specifically addresses the FAA’s needs to...
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
Honolulu, Hawaii
An aggressive schedule, the desire for LEED® certification, and a goal of reducing energy consumption by 30 percent are just some of the challenges presented by the two-phase modernization and renovation of this five-story courthouse and nine-story federal building on the island of O’ahu. The...
The Tower at PNC Plaza
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Completed in October 2015, The Tower at PNC Plaza marks a new step in PNC’s efforts to revive downtown Pittsburgh. In designing this new 32-story corporate headquarters, Gensler and its partners set a new standard for sustainable skyscrapers, devising an innovative, low-energy strategy to heat...
California State University, Long Beach, Blair Field
Long Beach, California
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) enlisted Gensler’s climate and sustainability services to help reach the university’s goal of achieving net-zero status by 2030. Two ambitious projects establish a culture of sustainability and set a tone for the future of the campus, as they seek...
Reinsurance Group of America
Chesterfield, Missouri
The St. Louis offices of Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a global leader in life and health reinsurance, had been spread across three separate buildings, resulting in operational inefficiencies and a lack of unity. In relocating to a new build-to-suit facility, the client consolidated its...
U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Office Building
Miramar, Florida
Along with Hensel Phelps, Gensler is managing a design-build team that will deliver this new GSA office building to meet the 2030 “net zero” objectives of reducing energy and resource consumption, using high-performance materials and systems, and employing onsite harvesting of renewable energy...
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences and JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE
Los Angeles, California
Gensler designed this 54-story tower as the visual anchor for the larger six-block sports and entertainment district known as L.A. LIVE. Comprising two distinct hotel brands, an 878-key JW Marriott hotel and a 123-key Ritz-Carlton boutique hotel, the tower's top 25 floors house Ritz-branded...
Panduit
Tinley Park, Illinois
During the last decade, Gensler has partnered with this global manufacturer and distributor of electrical solutions, developing guidelines and standards for workplace and branding, designing a customer briefing center prototype, and expanding existing warehouse distribution and...
Nixon Peabody LLP
San Francisco, California
Nixon Peabody is the first U.S. law office to achieve LEED® certification. With one of the oldest environmental law practices in the country, the firm's sustainably designed office is closely aligned with its core values. The space is, as a managing partner said, "built on a foundation of...
Hotel Palomar Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An adaptive re-use of Philadelphia’s historic “Architects Building,” this sophisticated 230-room hotel is Kimpton’s first LEED® Silver-certified property. The hotel includes a signature restaurant, a dozen spa suites, a presidential suite, a penthouse ballroom, a more prominent canopy entrance...
The New York Times Company
New York, New York
Transparent news reporting is essential to the success of media companies such as The New York Times Company. The Times' new building is a reflection of the newspaper's evolution within this context. Located in the tower's all-glass podium, the newsrooms are closer to the public and engage the...
CityCenter
Las Vegas, Nevada
Gensler served as Executive Architect for CityCenter, the largest private development in the United States. With 18 million square feet of building footprint on 76 acres of land, CityCenter provides a sophisticated, cosmopolitan hub on The Strip, distinguished by world-class design and...
Hess Tower
Houston, Texas
Houston’s first downtown LEED® Platinum office building, Hess Tower is a truly 21st century facility. Originally designed as a speculative office building, the tower is the only building of its generation in Houston to be 100-percent leased prior to its completion. And, its design was credited...
AMCOL International
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
A manufacturer of specialty mineral products, AMCOL partnered with Gensler to design a headquarters that showcases innovation and environmental stewardship, while promoting collaboration between company scientists and the corporate groups that market, sell and distribute AMCOL’s applications...
Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
Denver, Colorado
Working closely with the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, Gensler developed a design concept for a high-performance renovation of the nonprofit’s existing office space located in downtown Denver. Responding to the client’s desire to create a space that would attract and retain tenants looking...
Shanghai Tower
Shanghai, China
Sited adjacent to the neighboring Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center in the heart of the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, the 632-meter Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler, ranks as China’s tallest building. As the skyline’s most prominent icon, the tower’s transparent, spiral...
The Clark
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Gensler served as executive architect and sustainability consultant for a series of transformative projects on the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s 140-acre campus, leading a high-profile collaboration that included Tadao Ando Architects (design architect for the Clark Center and...
The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries
Beacon, New York
The Beacon Institute’s global center for the study and conservation of waterways is housed in this LEED® Gold adaptive reuse project on the banks of the Hudson River. In repurposing and expanding a 19th Century brickworks, Gensler took a “whole building” design approach to integrate green and...
Fletcher Jones Mercedes-Benz of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Adjacent Chicago’s heavily trafficked Kennedy Expressway, this new dealership provides a showcase for Fletcher Jones’ luxury automotive range and commitment to sustainability. The stand-alone facility incorporates 60,000-square-feet of interior showroom and customer parking with additional...
PNC Bank, Harbor East
Baltimore, Maryland
Located within Baltimore’s hip, urban Harbor East neighborhood, this branch incorporates PNC Bank design objectives — recognizable, accessible, sustainable — within a redeveloped turn-of the-century furniture warehouse. Gensler’s design infused salvaged base building material with PNC’s standard...
New York School of Interior Design
New York, New York
With its new graduate facility, the nearly century-old New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) has a center that embodies a studio atmosphere, while fostering a sense of community and collaboration for faculty and students. The open, loft-like quality of the sustainably designed space...
American Multinational Energy Corporation
San Ramon, California
In consolidating workers from two buildings to one, this energy firm gained a dynamic work environment that encourages the exchange of ideas, creates a strong sense of community and embraces the emerging shifts in the way people work. The space better balances private offices with open...
Port of Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Seeking to exemplify environmental leadership while meeting its operational and functional needs, the Port of Long Beach sought a new campus maintenance facility that would consolidate personnel and enhance worker productivity. Sustainable strategies leading to LEED® Gold certification include a...
Goodyear: Brand Design
Akron, Ohio
In Goodyear’s new Akron headquarters, the company’s culture and legacy have been brought to life through an immersive experience in which clean, modern graphics and vibrant color celebrate the company’s legacy while re-energizing its brand. Treatments range from large-scale sculptural...
Gensler Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Overlooking Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street in Midtown, Gensler’s local office celebrates and elevates the visibility of the design process. Clients are engaged through collaboration and inspirational spaces just inside the lobby. With just four enclosed offices in the workplace, work areas...
BASF
Florham Park, New Jersey
For its North American regional headquarters, chemical company BASF engaged Gensler to design a progressive and sustainable workplace environment that reflects their vision, brand and culture. To encourage employee communication and collaboration, 90 percent of the workspace is composed of...
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Gratz Center
Chicago, Illinois
Sited on the Magnificent Mile and across from the John Hancock Tower, Fourth Church is one of Chicago’s most visible religious institutions. Built after the Great Fire, the church and its “light in the city” ministry are intertwined closely with Chicago history. Gensler designed the Gratz Center...
Duke Kunshan University
Kunshan, China
Just west of Shanghai, this five-building complex is a model of sustainable development, organized around a vast manmade lake and connected by bridges skimming the water’s surface. Terraces, pavilions and other spaces offer water views, invite gatherings and build community. The range of...
Rio 2016 Olympic Master Plan
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Gensler led a top-finishing competition consortium of architects, urban designers and environmental engineers in the planning and design of Rio Olympic Park, a 1.18-million-square-meter area that would serve as home to 15 Olympic and 11 Paralympic events in 2016. The master plan creates an...
Southwest Energy Company Renovation/Repurpose
Southwest, United States
When the economic downturn scrapped a ground-up project, Gensler’s design team had a new directive: repurpose an 80,000-square-foot, 40-year-old building, incorporating elements of the original design, but on a dramatically reduced budget. Targeting LEED® Silver certification, the new facility...
Cleveland Clinic Data Center
Brecksville, Ohio
The Clinic treats 4.6 million patients a year through 26 health institutes, and its medical records (which are maintained digitally) need to be available 24/7. Oriented to provide the most scenic views to the workplace area, this state-of-the-art, LEED®-NC Silver-certified facility consolidates...
Portland Jetport
Portland, Maine
Portland Jetport had grown sporadically, through multiple additions over the years, and suffered a lack of architectural character and severe overcrowding. Gensler’s expansion incorporated a sustainable design program with lasting financial benefits. By highlighting natural materials – real wood...
World Food Prize
Des Moines, Iowa
The World Food Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture, honors individuals working to improve the world’s food supply and production. Designed by Gensler, in collaboration with RDG as AOR and Hoerr Schaudt as landscape architect, the World Food Prize's new headquarters...
Venables Bell & Partners
San Francisco, California
This cutting-edge advertising firm sits high above one of the most visible corners in San Francisco’s Union Square. Conceived as an “idea incubator,” through a simple, clean envelope, the offices expose the firm’s creative thinking, inviting clients into its process. The space is playful, open...
San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 2
San Francisco, California
Designed as representative of the Bay Area’s culture and aesthetic, the renovated Terminal 2 (SFO T2) accommodates 14 gates serving Virgin America and American Airlines. The terminal elevates the passenger experience through design strategies that reduce traveler stress, highlight the airport’s...
AT&T Foundry
Palo Alto, California
AT&T sought to create a highly adaptable workshop-lab-incubator where developers, inventors, suppliers and students could experiment with AT&T’s systems. Renovated from a historic French laundry, the workplace reflects the principle that effective workspaces promote chance encounters and that...
Glumac
Portland, Oregon
For its Portland office renovation, engineering firm Glumac turned to Gensler for an environment that would encourage collaboration and reflect the company’s commitment to sustainability and creativity. Open and light-filled, the space centers on “neighborhood work areas,” where daylight and...
Ropes & Gray, LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
Following previous successful collaborations between Gensler and Ropes & Gray, elements of commonality across multiple projects were identified, enabling the streamlining of this global law firm’s Boston headquarters. Programmed according to a 20-year projection, the 490,000-square-foot...
BHP Billiton
Houston, Texas
For its new six-story headquarters, Australian-based BHP Billiton wanted a workplace that would inspire and nurture its people. Gensler’s charge was to design an innovative workspace to accommodate the dramatic growth of staff and assist in recruiting and retaining talented people. Three...
Mineta San Jose International Airport
San Jose, California
To initiate a $1.3 billion airport modernization program, Gensler composed a master plan encompassing a new Terminal B and Concourse, major upgrades of existing terminal space, new parking facilities, and an improved roadway system. Having conducted numerous studies with community groups to...
Fairmont Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gensler considered and designed every detail of this office/hotel/condominium project — from its strategic location to it furnishings — for optimal economic, environmental and community benefit. Highly efficient office and hotel floor plates optimize lease and planning spans, while the hotel’s...
University of Illinois NCSA Petascale Computing Facility
Champaign, Illinois
This state-of-the-art, LEED®-NC Gold-certified building, designed to withstand an EF-3 tornado, provides a secure, efficient operating environment for one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Along with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and engineering partners, Gensler...
High-Performance Research Computing Center at Princeton University
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Situated on Princeton’s Forrestal campus, this 47,000 square-foot project is the new home to powerful research computers capable of such highly technical tasks as generating models of galaxy formation and simulating the seismic forces of an earthquake. With 12,000-square-feet of data center, the...
Patriots Plaza
Washington, D.C.
Patriots Plaza, the first speculative office complex to meet post-9/11 security requirements, represents a building that offers appealing workspace aesthetics, while incorporating sustainable design principles. A main goal of the project was maximizing energy efficiency, particularly through...
Reed Smith LLP, London
London, United Kingdom
The driving goal for Reed Smith’s flagship London office was to foster relationships. Space for this was made ample. Practice floors are designed around access to light and views, with clerestory walls and glass partitions. Breakout areas and teaming tables provide room for collaboration, and...
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Denver, Colorado
Through a GSA design-build lease-back competition, the DEA sought a new headquarters facility that would serve as an iconic home for the agency, improve its public image, increase site and building security, and consolidate multiple departments and locations. Gensler’s winning design addressed...
Financial Services (Full-Service Insurance) Company
Rochelle, Illinois
Data center requirements often consign design to a box — typically a windowless one. Rather than conform to conventional constraints, Gensler used them to spark design innovation, enabling the client to set the standard for environmentally sustainable data centers. Daylighting, sun shades and...
Banner Health Technology Center
Confidential Location
The design and documentation of this two-story, 65,000-square-foot facility were completed using BIM modeling software, which integrates the mechanical, electrical, structural and architectural components. This permitted early cost modeling and clash detection, keeping the project on budget and...
Walter P Moore
Houston, Texas
As part of its rebranding program, this well-respected engineering firm wanted its new headquarters in a downtown office tower where it could demonstrate its creativity and innovativeness while providing employees a collaborative and healthy workplace. Comprising 74,000 square feet, the firm’s...
Center on Halsted
Chicago, Illinois
Center on Halsted is the Midwest’s most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and securing the health and well-being of local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. Located in the heart of Chicago’s Lakeview Neighborhood, this environmentally...
Herman Miller
Chippenham, United Kingdom
The renowned furniture designer and manufacturer’s European headquarters combines office and showroom space to explore new ways of working in a sustainable facility. Sensitive landscape design complements the pavilion-style building, incorporating a palette of native species that contribute to...
Centro Internacional de Negocios (CIN)
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Together with CIN’s developer, Gensler designed this new 40,000-square-foot office building in the border city of Juárez with the vision that it become Mexico’s first LEED-Gold certified building. It succeeded—also earning designation as the smartest building in Mexico. Built with...
Community Hospital @ Yishun
Singapore
Singapore is seeking to care for one of Asia’s fastest-aging populations; and the Community Hospital @ Yishun aims to serve it with the best in “slow medicine,” which harnesses technology without being driven by it. Collaborating with HDR, Gensler’s design competition solution envisioned a...
Project Cardinal
North Carolina, United States
Targeting LEED® Gold certification, this project serves as the prototype of the client’s next-generation data center program. At this fault-tolerant, concurrently maintainable, Tier III+ facility, 72 hours of fuel and 300,000 gallons of chilled water are stored onsite to ensure operational...
Financial Services (Banking) Company
Confidential Location, China
The final piece of the client's three-facility construction program, this state-of-the-art data center will be among the largest in China for domestic commercial banks. Using a square modular design, the data center allows for flexibility in arrangement, efficient layouts, and scalability...
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Anthony Brower
Global Climate Action & Sustainability Leader
Anthony creates cascading design impacts by connecting patterns that scale from space planning to urban design. His unique approach to sustainability strategy establishes...
Kirsten Ritchie
Global Climate Action & Sustainability Leader, Community Sector Leader, Principal
As a global leader of Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability practice, Kirsten serves as one of the firm’s leading sustainability ambassadors. She focuses on championing...
Gail Napell
Inclusive Design Network Leader
With over 40 years of experience, Gail is a licensed architect who is passionate about optimizing the performance of buildings today to help create resilience for tomorrow. Her...
Rives Taylor
Global Design Resilience Co-Leader, Principal
Rives directs our Global Design Resilience teams and initiatives at Gensler. He is a recognized global expert in resilient, high-performance, and sustainable design and has...
Rhiannon Laurie
Climate Action & Sustainability Leader
Rhiannon serves as the Climate Action & Sustainability Leader for Gensler’s Europe region, helping promote responsible design at every stage of the process and embedding...
Trevor To
Design Resilience Leader, Design Manager
Trevor is a dedicated architect who is focused on all stages of architectural projects, from concept design to project coordination and construction management. As the Global...
Jim Stanislaski
Design Resilience Leader, Studio Director, Principal
As a Principal and Studio Director based in Gensler’s Boston office, Jim leads a multi-disciplinary team of designers focused on creating innovative developer and life sciences...
Amanda Zaitchik
Design Manager
As a Design Manager in Gensler’s New York office, Amanda specializes in designing experiences at the intersection of brand, digital, and interior design. A certified interior...
Chris VanderWeyden
Design Resilience Leader, Senior Sustainability Specialist
Located in the Gensler New York office, Chris is a Global Design Resilience Leader for the firm’s Consumer Goods practice and has a great passion for delivering resilient...
David Briefel
Sustainability Director, Climate Action & Sustainability Leader, Principal
David is a Climate Action & Sustainability Leader for Gensler’s Northeast region and a Sustainability Director based in Gensler’s New York office. Inspired by the intersection...
Mallory Taub
Sustainability Director
As a Sustainability Director at Gensler, Mallory collaborates across disciplines to lead the development of sustainability strategies to improve the ecological and health...
Oliver Schaper
Cities & Urban Design Leader, Design Director, Principal
Oliver is an inter-disciplinary Design Director and Cities & Urban Design Leader for the Northeast region whose expertise is developing holistic, civic-minded, and sustainable...
Michael Townsend
Mixed Use & Retail Centers Leader, Design Director, Principal
Michael is an award-winning Design Director and Mixed Use & Retail Centers Leader for Gensler’s North Central region. A Principal based in Gensler’s Chicago office, he brings...
Benjamin Holsinger
Design Resilience Leader, Sustainability & Wellbeing Consultant
As Global Design Resilience Leader of Gensler’s Product Development practice, Benjamin provides guidance on sustainable qualities for our design teams and partner manufacturers...
Liz Resenic
Design Resilience Leader, Sustainability Strategist
Liz is a Global Design Resilience Leader for Gensler’s Healthcare practice area. As a Sustainability Strategist, she advances projects that are sensitive to their environment...
Gregory Plavcan
Design Resilience Leader, Sustainability Strategist
Gregory is a Global Design Resilience Leader for Gensler’s Media practice area. He leads the firm’s Washington D.C. resilience strategy team and has worked as a sustainability...
Lina Khan
Design Resilience Leader, Sustainability Specialist
Lina is a passionate advocate in creating a better world through the power of design with sustainable integrity in her role as a Global Design Resilience Leader for Gensler's...
Sandy Mendler
Studio Director, Education Leader, Principal
Sandy is a nationally recognized architect and planner focused on creating inspiring new models for healthy, sustainable living. She brings deep expertise as an Education...
Jacqueline Zuhoski
Design Resilience Leader, Technical Director
As the Design Resilience Leader for Gensler’s Technology practice, Jacqueline helps our teams and our firm move the resilience conversation to the forefront of every project...
Peter Muller
Design Resilience Leader, Design Manager
As Design Resilience Leader for Gensler's Brand Design practice area, Peter leads in sustainable brand design solutions, client advocacy, talent development, and...
Jacqueline Salterio
Design Resilience Leader, Design Manager
Extreme attention to detail makes Jacqueline adept in designing projects that meet the most stringent design guidelines and programmatic needs. In her role as Design Resilience...
Josh Rosenthal
Design Resilience Leader
Serving as Gensler’s Critical Facilities Design Resilience Leader, Josh specializes in the planning and management of complex technical projects that require particular...
Maria Perez
Climate Action & Sustainability Leader, Sustainability Director
Maria is a Climate Action & Sustainability Leader for Gensler’s South Central region and a Sustainability Director, based in Gensler’s Houston office. She serves as one of the...
Audrey Handelman
Studio Director
Audrey is an experienced architect, designer, and project leader who is a Studio Director in Gensler’s Los Angeles office and serves as the Community Impact Leader for...
Roger Sherman
Design Director
Roger is a Design Director and leads the Urban Impact group at Gensler Los Angeles. Since he joined the firm, the group has won a PA Award (Architecture Magazine) and...
Steven Shinn
Sustainability Director
As a Sustainability Director at Gensler, Steven focuses on design excellence, sustainability, and personal service for projects that promote social, cultural, and educational...
Stacey Olson
Wellness Leader, Director of Sustainability
As a Global Wellness Leader at Gensler, Stacey provides a hands-on approach to delivering holistically integrated design with a focus on sustainability, health and wellbeing...
Jennifer Cardinal
Design Director
Jennifer is a Design Director in Gensler’s Los Angeles office and experienced interior architect with a passion for design. She holds a successful 24-year track record of...
Rene Cedillos
Design Resilience Leader
Rene is the Design Resilience Leader for Gensler’s Latin America region. He brings more than 15 years of experience in sustainable and added value implementations in real...
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Diane Hoskins at COP27 on Decarbonizing Future
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CLIMATE ACTION & SUSTAINABLE DESIGN INSIGHTS
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Getting to the ‘S’ and the ‘G’ in ESG Through Design
Designing for the ‘S’ (Social) and fueling the impact of the corporate ‘G’ (Governance) in ESG can help realize positive, measurable outcomes in the community.
Climate Disclosure Mandates Will Irreversibly Transform Real Estate — and Supercharge the Low-Carbon Market
It has become clear that investors, driven by tenant demand and regulations, will be the force pushing the decarbonization of commercial real estate.
Together, EVs, AVs, and Multimodal Transportation Will Create More Vibrant Cities
We want the act of moving around our cities and communities to be convenient, quick, clean, accessible, and inclusive. So what does that look like, both today and in the years to come?
The Carbon Innovations Hiding in Plain Sight
Gensler co-CEO Diane Hoskins addresses the carbon footprint of concrete and explains how we’re using our status to push the concrete industry to reduce carbon emissions through innovation.
Is Mass Timber the American South’s Best Kept Secret? Not for Long.
The southeast United States is emerging as a serious contender in the mass timber market, where several large-scale campus projects are poised to redefine sustainable architecture.
How Local Governments Are Transforming Green Building Policies — and How to Prepare
Here is a primer on where green building policies came from, what they mean, and where they’re likely to go in the future.
5 Ways ESG Can Influence Design and Create Opportunities
Here’s how we’re expanding our understanding of ESG metrics so we can tangibly quantify the positive impacts design innovations can bring.
U.S. Climate Action Survey 2022
We surveyed U.S. residents to understand how climate change effects were already impacting their lives and what actions they felt were being taken on a personal and community level to address future events.
A Framework for Fostering Climate Resilience and Preparedness in the Built Environment
Within Gensler's U.S. Climate Action Survey 2022, we introduce a new roadmap for climate action through design that is anchored by four pillars: environment, economy, experience, and equity.
The Case for Mass Timber: How First United Bank Is Creating a More Sustainable Future
Gensler’s design for several First United Bank projects in Texas and Oklahoma highlight the potential of mass timber as a sustainable, low-carbon material.
5 Things Developers Should Know About Mass Timber
With its inherent structural integrity and positive impact on carbon emissions, mass timber can make a big impact in tackling climate action in the built environment.
The Next Phase for Climate Action: An Embodied Carbon Revolution
We are working to influence the building industry by sparking greater demand for sustainable building materials and products to trigger a sea change by decreasing carbon emissions and improving the resilience of global supply chains.
How the Building Industry Can Respond to the Terrible, No-Good, Very-Bad IPCC Report
The solutions we must embrace are not aimed at the 1% of iconic sustainable buildings, but rather they are intended to help us return to basic strategies across 99% of existing and future developments.
Why Designing for Climate Action and Sustainability Is an Imperative
In this interview, we sat down with global leaders for Gensler’s new Climate Action & Sustainability practice to discuss what’s next for climate action and sustainable design.
How Inclusive Design Supports Resilience and Climate Preparedness
We have an opportunity to design places that are inclusive for all people that can also promote resilience and make preparedness more accessible in the face of natural disasters and other climate change events.
The Future of ESG in Architecture
A team at Gensler is changing the challenge of measuring the impact of ESG goals by developing design guidance and strategy to add clarity and specificity to ESG metrics.
The Lab Building of the Future is NEXT
The traditional method of designing new science buildings needs to evolve from what the building looks like, to how it needs to be optimized for each tenant.
A Resilient Office Is an Occupied Office
In order to thrive, our downtown cores and buildings need to become more resilient, adaptable, and multiuse — considering efficient use of space and time as valuable factors in the resilience equation.
Fighting Climate Injustice: 10 Strategies for Action
Gensler and the American Institute of Architects are both committed to an ambitious agenda in the fight against climate change. Climate justice refines that approach to ensure that no one community is unfairly impacted by the burden of climate change.
The Case for Adaptive Reuse: How The Link Drives Sustainable Design Strategies in Downtown Denver
We transformed a 1960s-era telecom office tower into a creative, modern, mixed-use office building at a fraction of the embodied carbon cost compared to building new.
The Morphable Office: Envisioning the Future of the Office Through an ESG Lens
What does the future office building look like? Gensler's "Morphable Office" concept creates a compelling environment that draws people back to the office, but also appeals to their desire to address equity and climate change.
An 8-Step Model for ESG and Wellness in the Workplace
Helping people thrive at work through wellness design and initiatives may seem like an idealized goal. It’s not. It’s achievable and fundamental to the notions of ESG and wellness.
Net Zero Design Is the Key to Building a Resilient, Post-Pandemic Future
As we re-envision the way that buildings, developments, and even cities promote health, we must reimagine how the built environment supports the long-term resilience of our communities, livelihoods, and resources.
Redefining Resilient Spaces Through Smart Material Selection
In this conversation with Armstrong World Industries, we discuss how we can decrease embodied carbon levels in the built environment simply by making smart choices about materials.
Climate Action Through Design
Addressing the built environment’s impact on climate change is both a moral and business imperative. At Gensler, our goal is to make all the buildings we design net carbon zero by 2030. Explore our strategies for designing a resilient and equitable future.
Accelerating Momentum Around Climate Action With Every Person, Every Project, and Every Place
As designers, builders, and creators of the built environment, at Gensler we are committed to leading the charge in climate action by ensuring that every project in our portfolio is net zero carbon by 2030.
Gensler Honored As First Firm to Win Three AIA COTE Top Ten Awards for Sustainable Design
Three Gensler projects were recognized for excellence in sustainable design at the 2020 American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Awards, including the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, UPCycle, and Etsy.
A Different Kind of Climate Change: How Global Migration Will Shape the Next Century
A new age of migration, as entire regions of the world begin an environmental pilgrimage, will bring climate refugees right to the front door of developed nations.
Assembly at North First: Putting Resilient Design to Work in the Wake of the Pandemic
Completed in 2019, Assembly at North First was originally intended to be leased as a single-tenant campus, but the developer asked Gensler to demonstrate what the post-COVID workplace would look like in practice.
Are Our COVID-19 Responses Missing the Big Picture?
As we plan for a new normal, we must keep the climate costs of our post-COVID workplaces and consider how changes we make to deal with the virus might influence the climate.
Could Low-Tech Design Prevent Climate Change-Influenced Pandemics?
How should we think about the coronavirus pandemic in the context of climate change? Is there anything we can do differently in the built environment to fight these two urgent problems?
Developing the World's Tallest Net Zero Timber Building with Sidewalk Labs
Working with Sidewalk Labs and a network of engineers, environmental specialists, and other partners, we have collectively spent the past year exploring timber’s potential impact on building design, manufacturing, and sustainability.
DESIGN RESILIENCE NEWS
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Urban Land Institute
2022Urban Land Institute covered a panel discussion from the 2022 ULI Fall Meeting, featuring insights from leaders, including Gensler co-CEO Andy Cohen, on the right path forward for the commercial real estate industry. -
AIA California
2022AIA California honored Gensler’s design of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco Airport with the 2022 Climate Action Award, recognizing the project for excelling in both design and performance. -
Commercial Observer
2022ESG Consultancy Director Juliette Morgan discussed how the real estate industry is impacted by findings in the latest IPCC report and reflected on prioritizing energy performance and better building materials.
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