Residential

1 St. Clair West

Aspire Post Oak

Prairie Shores Clubhouse

CSULB Parkside North Residence Hall and Housing Administration Building

Mira

Urban Awning

SCAPE Boylston

Relevant Group

Holliday Street

Central Park House

The Apex at CityPlace

Metropolis

Aspire College Station

HarborChase of Prince William Commons

Sterling 920 Terrace Clubhouse

Woodlawn Station

Fountainview at Gonda Westside

Domain Northside

ITC Colombo One Hotel & Residences

MOTO

Biola University, Blackstone Hall

Town Hall Apartments

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences and JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE

River Oaks District

16M

Msheireb Downtown Doha

Three PNC Plaza

The Bon Brings A New Model for Urban Living to Boston

Designing Innovative Pathways to Affordable Housing in Los Angeles

Housing Affordability and Homelessness in Los Angeles: A Conversation With Roger Sherman

Revitalizing, Reinventing & Rethinking Downtown San Francisco: A Conversation With Mayor London Breed

How Office-to-Residential Conversions Could Revitalize Downtown San Francisco

Debunking Three Myths About Designing for Older Adults

The Trends Defining What’s Next for Stranded Assets and Building Transformation

CSULB Parkside North Residence Hall

From Vacancy to Vibrancy: Office to Residential Building Conversions

The Housing Crisis: Finding Hope in Innovation

What Senior Living Has to Say about Health and Well-Being in Design

4 Strategies for Amplifying Health and Well-being in Residence Halls

3 Considerations for Rethinking NYC Office Buildings

What We've Learned by Assessing More Than 300 Potential Office-to-Residential Conversions

5 Ways to Rethink the Future of Residential Development and Design
With the right reuse strategies and tools, transforming under-performing office buildings and retail centers into housing can be a key opportunity.
Many of today’s developers are capitalizing on the growing number of vacant office buildings, converting them to residential communities, increasing savings in embodied carbon and construction costs. Utilizing stranded assets, existing infrastructure, and innovative ways of building will give developers a growing range of project delivery options and development price points.
Understanding new policies aimed at making housing more attainable to more people will give developers leverage in the residential market.
Making housing more affordable with new funds and regulations is becoming a top agenda item for world governments, including the European Union and the U.S. government (in early 2022, the Biden administration announced the Housing Supply Action Plan). Understanding the details of these new policies will give affordable housing developers a leg up.
Trends in “flexible housing” — modular buildings and kit-of-parts floor plans — will allow developers to evolve as market needs and expectations shift.
The concept of building flexibility is increasingly applied to residential housing design because of shifting demands from residents and the need for residential developers to react as the market evolves. This translates to everything from floorplans that can easily change to parking garage structures that can be converted to residential units.


Kelly Farrell

Brooks Howell

New York Times Explores the Complex “25-Story Rubik’s Cube” of Turning an Office Building Into a Home

Transforming Empty San Francisco Offices Into Housing

The Rising Trend of Retail-to-Residential Conversions

How New Residential Housing Could Revive San Francisco’s Downtown Financial District

A Gensler Study Explores Office-to-Residential Conversions in Downtown San Francisco

What Makes for a Successful Office-to-Residential Conversion

How Downtown Office Conversions Can Turn a ‘Defunct Product’ Into New Urban Housing

How Steven Paynter’s Algorithm ‘Could Solve the Crisis of America’s Empty Office Space’

How to Make Office-to-Residential Conversions Work

Gensler’s Steven Paynter Is Recognized by Business Insider on Its List of Top 100 People Transforming Business This Year

The Wave of Urban Infill Senior Living Development Is Just Starting

Chicago’s Town Hall Apartments at the Center on Halsted Help Meet the Needs of Older LGBTQ Adults

How Unused Office Buildings Can Be Converted Into Much-Needed Housing Stock

How Empty Office Buildings Can Be Converted to Help Address Homelessness

The Esperson Building, an Iconic Houston Office Tower, Will Get a $50M Makeover
