Repositioning & Landlord Services

How Younger Workers’ Preferences and Workstyles Will Define the Future Workplace
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How Younger Workers’ Preferences and Workstyles Will Define the Future Workplace

The preferences and workstyles of our younger workers will increasingly define the future of the workplace for everyone. How will this impact how we...

Here’s Why Employees at Top-Performing Companies Need the Office
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Here’s Why Employees at Top-Performing Companies Need the Office

Top-performing companies support flexibility and encourage remote work, but they also value the role of the physical workplace to bring their talent...

US Workplace Survey Summer 2021
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US Workplace Survey Summer 2021

Top-performing companies are three times more likely to increase their real estate footprint post-pandemic, according to findings from Gensler’s...

Three International Lessons for U.S. Workplace Well-being
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Three International Lessons for U.S. Workplace Well-being

As organizations across the globe grapple with questions around the return to the workplace, figuring out how to adapt an organization’s culture is...

Lessons From India: 4 Interventions to Inform the Future Workplace
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Lessons From India: 4 Interventions to Inform the Future Workplace

Gensler’s India Return to Work Survey 2021 reveals that workers in India are embracing a hybrid work model — but they face unique challenges and...

4 Emerging Patterns About Hybrid Work and the Future of the Office
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4 Emerging Patterns About Hybrid Work and the Future of the Office

As workers around the world continue to experiment with how and where they work in the face of ongoing uncertainty, Gensler's global Workplace...

Why Now Is the Time to Rethink Workplace Amenities
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Why Now Is the Time to Rethink Workplace Amenities

As global enterprises prepare their return to the office, many are asking: what amenities might deliver the greatest returns in today’s evolving work...

The Benefits of Converting Class C Office Into First Class Residential
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The Benefits of Converting Class C Office Into First Class Residential

From coast-to-coast, clients are facing a similar challenge: in order to future-proof older buildings, they’ll need to make their buildings more...

The Fifth Façade: Rethinking Urban Rooftops for the Post-Pandemic Office Building
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The Fifth Façade: Rethinking Urban Rooftops for the Post-Pandemic Office Building

Rather than being a sign of exclusivity, rooftop spaces are becoming one of the biggest opportunities in real estate development and an essential...

Will Remote Work Trends Benefit Smaller, More Affordable Cities?
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Will Remote Work Trends Benefit Smaller, More Affordable Cities?

How can cities function as an attractive extension of the office in the age of “anywhere work?”

Lessons From China: What Hybrid Work Really Looks Like in Practice
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Lessons From China: What Hybrid Work Really Looks Like in Practice

The Chinese workplace is back open — and the experience of these workers holds lessons for the rest of the world as we consider what a hybrid...

China’s Return Offers a Glimpse Into the Post-Pandemic Workplace
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China’s Return Offers a Glimpse Into the Post-Pandemic Workplace

China’s profound and successful transition back to the office was the first of its kind — here are some emerging findings from our China Workplace...

China Workplace Survey 2021
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China Workplace Survey 2021

Chinese workers are back at the office — and the workplace is still the primary anchor of the workweek.

Sketching the New Hybrid Workplace
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Sketching the New Hybrid Workplace

In this look at the future of hybrid work, Gensler architects and workplace designers shared their visions for the post-pandemic workplace and how it...

5 Design Interventions to Mitigate Virus Risk in the Workplace
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5 Design Interventions to Mitigate Virus Risk in the Workplace

To help return to work safely and to reduce future operational risk, Gensler collaborated with Haven Diagnostics to simulate how design impacts the...

Design Forecast: Repositioning & Landlord Services
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Design Forecast: Repositioning & Landlord Services

Flexibility, adaptability, and well-being are driving the next chapter of building repositioning. Viewed through this lens, repositioned real estate...

Reduce, Reuse, Reclad at One Post Office Square
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Reduce, Reuse, Reclad at One Post Office Square

At One Post Office Square in Boston, an aging concrete office tower offered an opportunity to explore questions about our relationship to the built...

Real Estate Must Offer Human Experiences, as We Escape Virtual Lockdown Living
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Real Estate Must Offer Human Experiences, as We Escape Virtual Lockdown Living

The recovery is an opportunity to realign real estate value with human experience.

Across the Globe, Workers Want a Hybrid Work Model
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Across the Globe, Workers Want a Hybrid Work Model

Gensler's latest Global Workplace Surveys uncovered some universal truths: most office workers want a hybrid work model, and the office is still the...

Surprising Truths About the New Hybrid Workplace
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Surprising Truths About the New Hybrid Workplace

Gensler's Workplace and Research leaders host a Q&A with Michael Gao, M.D. of Haven Diagnostics, on the return to the office and the future of the...

Rebuilding Community in the Post-Pandemic World
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Rebuilding Community in the Post-Pandemic World

When we can return to the office and resume other in-person activities, creating places for people to spend time together and rebuild community — not...

5 Trends Driving the New Post-Pandemic Workplace
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5 Trends Driving the New Post-Pandemic Workplace

Here are five workplace trends that have been accelerated and now are driving priorities for the new post-pandemic office.

How the New Hybrid Workplace Can Support Equity for All
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How the New Hybrid Workplace Can Support Equity for All

The future workplace must evolve to serve new needs, support flexible, hybrid working styles, and promote equity for all workers.

Ford Reimagines Detroit’s Oldest Neighborhood for an Evolving Workforce
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Ford Reimagines Detroit’s Oldest Neighborhood for an Evolving Workforce

Ford's Book Depository will bring together innovators, entrepreneurs, emerging technology companies, and employees to develop, test, and launch new...

Meeting Post-COVID Expectations for Office Buildings at One Post Office Square
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Meeting Post-COVID Expectations for Office Buildings at One Post Office Square

Boston's 41-story One Post Office Square tower was constructed in 1980 and designed at a time when corner offices were the gold standard of the...

6 Strategies Developers Can Use to Improve Building Performance and Lower Carbon Emissions
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6 Strategies Developers Can Use to Improve Building Performance and Lower Carbon Emissions

A building’s performance is primarily influenced by its size, shape, orientation, massing, and fenestration. When just 1% of a project’s upfront...

Design for the New Hybrid Workplace
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Design for the New Hybrid Workplace

As we plan for the new workplace, we need new design tools to meet the new design demands, and advances in technology and design tools is driving...

How to Bring Older Office Buildings Back to Life Amid a Struggling Commercial Real Estate Market
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How to Bring Older Office Buildings Back to Life Amid a Struggling Commercial Real Estate Market

Here are several opportunities commercial real estate developers can consider when converting or repositioning under-performing office buildings.

Here’s How Developers Can Reposition Office Buildings for the Future
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Here’s How Developers Can Reposition Office Buildings for the Future

With so much square footage currently sitting empty in urban centers, we know that the future must be community-oriented, and existing office...

Real Estate Design Strategies for Leasing in a Post-COVID Market
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Real Estate Design Strategies for Leasing in a Post-COVID Market

Here are four key strategies that building owners and developers can leverage to have more informed conversations with prospective tenants in the...

Amenities at the Edge: Where the Workplace Meets the Street
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Amenities at the Edge: Where the Workplace Meets the Street

We have an opportunity to reimagine the ground floor of our cities — reinventing sidewalk-facing storefronts to serve the community, not just the...

The Office Building of the Future Should Be an Essential Part of Its Community
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The Office Building of the Future Should Be an Essential Part of Its Community

Over the past 70 years, the workplace has evolved slowly but surely. Now that evolution has accelerated far more dramatically and when we return, the...

COVID-19 and Building Performance: The Big Picture
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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 calculate the performance side of...

How Should Office Buildings Change in a Post-Pandemic World?
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How Should Office Buildings Change in a Post-Pandemic World?

For those who design and develop office buildings around the world, the current crisis has introduced a new challenge: Once we are cleared to return...

Designing Office Building Lobbies to Respond to the Coronavirus
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Designing Office Building Lobbies to Respond to the Coronavirus

People spend up to one-third of their lives at work, many of them inside office buildings. If these buildings were proactively designed with features...

Dialogue 35: TRANSFORMING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE THROUGH DESIGN
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Dialogue 35:
TRANSFORMING
THE URBAN EXPERIENCE
THROUGH DESIGN

TRANSFORMING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE THROUGH DESIGN As cities continue to grow, designers are stepping in to create experiences that connect people to...

Legacy Building
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Legacy Building

Gensler’s Todd Heiser and Benjy Ward on why adaptive reuse is about more than just renovation.

Adaptive Reuse Strategies for a Net-Zero Future
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Adaptive Reuse Strategies for a Net-Zero Future

Here are 3 successful examples of when developers chose adaptive reuse strategies over new builds.

Design Forecast Singapore: Repositioning for Smart Cities
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Design Forecast Singapore: Repositioning for Smart Cities

Gensler Singapore hosted a panel examining the impact that repositioning smart cities might have on a well-established, dense urban environments.

Building an Interconnected Future in Downtown Dallas
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Building an Interconnected Future in Downtown Dallas

To shape people’s experience of a city, we have to start by shaping one block, one intersection, or one individual building. At 400 Record Street in...

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DESIGN FORECAST

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Design Forecast presents a comprehensive look at design around the globe, with over 100 pages of insights, research and industry trends. Register...

Dialogue 34: How Workplace is Shaping the Future of Cities
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Dialogue 34: How Workplace
is Shaping the
Future of Cities

HOW WORKPLACE IS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF CITIES No experience shapes people’s lives more than work. From incubating new ideas to addressing climate...

The Future of USPS Real Estate
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The Future of USPS Real Estate

We investigated how the U.S. Postal Service can best use its existing real estate to further its mission in the community.

The Return on Design for Repositioning Projects: A New Framework for Measuring Performance
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The Return on Design for Repositioning Projects: A New Framework for Measuring Performance

Exploring how to quantify the market impact of our office repositioning projects.

Using IoT Technology to Drive Evidence-Based Design
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Using IoT Technology to Drive Evidence-Based Design

Using Gensler New York as a case study, we installed sensors and use mixed-methods to measure occupant and building data.

From Fitness to Bowling Alleys: How Commercial Office Buildings Are Differentiating Themselves Through Amenities
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From Fitness to Bowling Alleys: How Commercial Office Buildings Are Differentiating Themselves Through Amenities

Here, we offer five ways that amenities can help developers and building owners attract and secure tenants by appealing to their inhabitants

Re-Imagining an American Icon
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Re-Imagining an American Icon

The Willis Tower is one of the world’s tallest buildings. At ground level, however, something is noticeably absent.

Hack the City
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Hack the City

Redesigning our cities through active community engagement.

Leveraging Dynamo to Create Dynamic Facades
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Leveraging Dynamo to Create Dynamic Facades

Building a parametric, pattern-generating system in Dynamo to save energy and time in building facades.

Real Estate Repositioning Strategies
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Real Estate Repositioning Strategies

We created a menu of seven key real estate repositioning solutions in New York which can be applied to most markets.