Wellness
With a human-centered design approach, we create spaces that promote wellness at all scales with strategies that embrace biophilia, promote physical movement, support mental health and well-being, and foster inclusion.
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Workplaces are a platform for learning and invention, and when they provide a sense of belonging, they enable us to feel connected to a purpose and allow us to thrive.
—Stacey Olson, Wellness leader
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Holcomb Family YMCA
Spring, Texas
As a community-serving facility that was reconceptualized and designed during the pandemic, the Holcomb Family YMCA is unlike any other of its kind. Envisioned as an inclusive destination where people can find hope, fellowship, and healing, the facility’s innovative design provides members with...
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...
Reach Movement Studio
Cartersville, Georgia
Reach Movement Studio transforms physical therapy by making Musculoskeletal (MSK) care accessible, engaging, and affordable to all. Gensler led the experience strategy and design with Bardavon Health Innovations and their brand agency, Elephant, to define the customer experience for their first...
Bill Richards Center for Healing at Aquilino Cancer Center
Rockville, Marlyand
The first center of its kind, the Bill Richards Center for Healing at Aquilino Cancer Center explores new approaches to wellness and psychological therapies for cancer patients. The patient experience was designed to create the ideal setting for guided spiritual journeys. Treatment rooms are...
15 Laight Street
New York, New York
Vanbarton Group enlisted Gensler to transform 15 Laight Street — the former home of the Tribeca Film Festival — into a vibrant Class-A office building with ground floor retail. Renovating the existing building would have been prohibitively expensive and restrictive to design solutions, so...
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...
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...
AllianceBernstein Nashville Headquarters
Nashville, Tennessee
Spanning eight floors at Fifth + Broadway, a new commercial office building also designed by Gensler, AllianceBernstein’s (AB) new Nashville headquarters harnesses the Music City’s energy and legendary creativity with a design that sets people and business into motion. The workplace is imbued...
The Current at CIBC SQUARE
Toronto, Ontario
With a focus on engaging employees through health and wellness amenities, Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines called on Gensler to create a fitness centre at CIBC SQUARE that offers an elevated workplace experience. With soaring floor-to-ceiling windows offering incredible views, The Current evokes the...
OhioHealth Neuroscience Wellness Center
Columbus, Ohio
The Neuroscience Wellness Center at OhioHealth is a one-of-a-kind destination, designed to empower its community of users to take charge of their recovery process. This interdisciplinary community center expands beyond institutional treatment, offering patients access to comprehensive care with...
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...
Design for Distancing
Baltimore, Maryland
The Design for Distancing challenge — organized by the City of Baltimore, the Neighborhood Design Center, Baltimore Development Corporation, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — called on the city's design and public health communities to scope, develop, and implement...
Two Legacy West
Frisco, Texas
Two Legacy West is a 300,000-square-foot office tower and parking garage located near a developing area of Plano, Texas. The expansive space will include a market-style grocery area, community park, work and gaming lounges, three outdoor decks with fire pits, and a wellness center complete with...
Xperience Fitness
Multiple Locations
Xperience Fitness is a rapidly expanding chain of health clubs offering upscale amenities at an affordable price point. Targeting vacant big-box retail, Xperience desired a fresh prototype design that could be easily scaled to each location. The brand’s bold simplicity is emphasized with a...
San Jose State University Spartan Recreation and Aquatic Center
San Jose, California
The new Spartan Recreation and Aquatic Center serves as a central hub and student destination on campus, comprising a 120,000 sf gymnasium along with a 40,000 sf outdoor aquatics deck supporting two 50-meter pools. Program elements include a weight and fitness center, exercise rooms, rock...
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...
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T-Mobile, 3305
Bellevue, Washington
With a major T-Mobile campus renovation kicking off shortly, the 3305 office building was the first opportunity to introduce employees to a new way of working. The data from the Gensler Workplace Performance Index survey, interviews, workshops, and analysis informed programming and space...
Southwestern College, Wellness and Aquatic Complex
Chula Vista, California
As part of Southwestern College’s master planning effort, the new Wellness and Aquatic Complex replaces the college’s existing facilities. The new building houses a competitive gymnasium, fitness labs, cardio-workout rooms, training and testing rooms, offices, locker rooms and multipurpose...
Reebok Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
To strengthen their identity as the premier fitness brand, Reebok made a transformative decision to relocate from a sprawling campus outside of Boston to an urban headquarters in Boston’s Seaport District. The 5-story, 220,000-square-foot building is designed to attract top-tier talent, energize...
Illumina Array, Granta Park
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Illumina’s new European HQ at Granta Park puts people and ecosystems at the helm of its innovative landscape plan. Following a successful Master Planning commission to site the HQ building, Gensler’s landscape team designed and developed this science park campus in Cambridge. Principles of...
Delos
New York, NY
Delos, the creator of the WELL Building Standard focusing exclusively on human health and wellness, engaged Gensler to design its headquarters and a branded digital experience that illustrates its mission. Utilizing their own space as a method to visualize building sensor technology and data...
Santa Monica College Core Performance Center
Santa Monica, California
This new building at the heart of the Santa Monica College campus serves as a focal point for the physical activities of the student population. The facility includes a new fitness center, weight room, dance studios, locker rooms, group exercise space, and classrooms, along with athletic...
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Adaptive Fitness Center
Chicago, Illinois
This new facility consolidates two previously separate programs in one new home, combining the physical and programmatic elements of both in an 8,000-square-foot space. The integration prompted the Gensler team to consider new crossovers and efficiencies. A shared lobby helped, resulting in...
Willowbrook MLK Wellness Community
Los Angeles, California
Willowbrook MLK Wellness Community is a broad-based health and wellness center that seeks to transform medical care and health services in its South Los Angeles community through a focus on the current public health epidemics of diabetes and obesity. The Gensler design team developed an...
Gensler Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California
Gensler’s Newport Beach office fuses elements of the modern beach house and the Pacific outdoors to provide a rich variety of work settings, with a residential feel. Based on Gensler’s extensive workplace research, the daylight-filled office incorporates all four work modes—focus, collaboration...
C3
Culver City, California
Envisioned for the rising demographic of creative workers, C3 is a heterogeneous office building that challenges preconceptions about workplace design. Its seven stories of varied height can be built inexpensively and with flexible provisions for tenant growth. Exposed infrastructure invites...
Loisir Spa Tower Naha
Okinawa, Japan
Catering to “cultural tourists” who come to Okinawa to experience the city’s unique culture and history and to savor the island’s culinary delights, this 185-key downtown project offers two alternatives, both operated by Solare Hotels. Rooms on the lower floors constitute Chisun Inn, a...
INSIGHTS
Blog
10 Spaces That Are No Longer Optional to Create a Great Workplace Experience
What amenities can bring people back to the office? Here are 10 spaces that have the greatest impact on workplace effectiveness and experience.
Blog
Creating Spaces That Evoke Joy Through Immersive Design
How can physical spaces evoke joy? Design needs to incorporate multiple characteristics and fully engage our senses to be considered an immersive experience.
Blog
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.
Blog
Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of ESG
Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability leaders discuss the trends and challenges they are seeing as clients lay out ESG goals — and how those trends affect the way we design.
Blog
Debunking Three Myths About Designing for Older Adults
As part of a Gensler research initiative, we embarked on a study to learn more about the attitudes and living preferences of independent adults over age 55.
Blog
Trends to Watch: Accessible and Inclusive Design Will Draw Workers Back to the Office
Here’s how workplace designers can play a vital role in creating inclusive spaces that are welcoming of all people and all abilities and supportive of employee well-being with the right mix of amenities and spaces.
Case Study
LinkedIn Omaha
LinkedIn Omaha’s future-focused headquarters uses sustainable materials and strategies at every turn to support employee and building health, creating an optimistic future for the workplace.
Case Study
CSULB Parkside North Residence Hall
California State University, Long Beach’s goal is to achieve carbon-zero status by 2030 as well as LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Certifications through sustainable student housing.
Case Study
Harvey B. Milk Terminal 1 Renovation
Reductions in energy, carbon, and waste impacts makes SFO’s Harvey B. Milk Terminal a sustainable benchmark for future airports by setting new standards through its Triple Zero Challenge.
Blog
Murals of Joy: How Custom Murals Can Improve Well-being in the Workplace and Beyond
Inspiring and integrating, murals are complex tools of design that can enliven an entire workplace and integrate a community with the environment that surrounds it.
Blog
The Hospitality-Driven Workplace
To better attract, engage, and retain talent in the workplace, it will be critical that organizations take a cue from hospitality, viewing employees as valued guests.
Blog
4 Strategies for Amplifying Health and Well-being in Residence Halls
Gensler’s design for an on-campus housing project for CSULB takes a holistic approach to sustainability, focusing on student health, well-being, and equity.
Blog
A YMCA Facility Reconceptualized to Prioritize Wellness and Community
As a facility that had to be reconceptualized and designed during the pandemic, the Holcomb Family YMCA in Spring, Texas is designed to help members maintain healthy lifestyles and stay connected with the community.
Blog
How to Design Practice Facilities Centered on Athletes’ Mental Health
Modern sports training facilities and performance centers are emphasizing supporting spaces focused on mental health, a key factor in an athlete’s development and overall success.
WELLNESS DESIGN TRENDS TO WATCH
Supporting emotional and mental well-being will become a differentiator for recruiting and retaining talent.
Beautiful and sustainable environments that promote wellness by attending to physical needs like access to daylight and nature will become baseline. Today’s workforce wants to be supported emotionally, professionally, and socially, too. To meet these demands, workplaces must foster a sense of purpose through finely-tuned environments that support culture, collaboration, and training.
Designing for the edges takes center stage.
Workplaces that provide a sense of health and wellness will have an ecosystem of spaces that provide workers choice. A single approach to wellness does not fit all. Individuals want the ability to choose how to incorporate wellness into their lives. By providing a variety of flexible or personalized environments that respond to different needs and expectations, more people can be empowered to choose what works best for them.
New tools and codified metrics will allow us to understand how the built environment affects health and wellness.
Public awareness of the built environment’s outsized influence on our health and wellness has grown dramatically. Calls to understand its impacts have led to exciting scientific tools and metrics that can rate environments for wellness and reveal insights that can mitigate climate change, improve public health, and promote well-being.
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The global corporate wellness market is expected to reach $96.15 billion by 2030.
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Precedence Research, “Healthcare: The Corporate Wellness Market”
WELLNESS LEADERSHIP
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...
Michael Schur
Wellness Leader
As a Global Wellness Leader, Michael leads a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to delivering holistic design solutions that improve physical and emotional wellbeing, support...
NEWS
In The Media
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Fitwel
Gensler’s Design of Marriott International Headquarters Is Recognized in the Best in Building Health 2023 Awards
The Center for Active Design awarded Gensler’s design of Marriott International Headquarters among the Highest Scoring Design projects and in the Highest Scoring Commercial Interior Space v2.1 category for 2023.
March 23, 2023
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Fitwel
The Center for Active Design Honors Gensler in the Best in Building Health 2023 Awards
Gensler was awarded for having the greatest number of Fitwel Accredited staff ever and its design of Marriott International HQ was among the Highest Scoring Design projects of the year.
March 23, 2023
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The New York Times
Why the Next Retirement Communities Won’t Be Just for Seniors
Gensler Senior Living Leader Tama Duffy Day explains why “hospitality and residential developments understand that older adults are a huge market.”
February 01, 2023
In The Media
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The Nelson Post
The Health & Wellness Design Market Research Report Lists Gensler as a Key Player in Health and Wellness Design
The research report is meant to give cutting-edge market knowledge, help leaders take assessments, and examine developing patterns, challenges, and drivers in the health and wellness design market.
January 05, 2023
In The Media
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3BL Media
SFO’s Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Becomes the First Airport Terminal in the World to Achieve Full WELL Certification
The WELL Core Certification is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being.
October 28, 2022
In The Media
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officeinsight
A Gensler-Designed Healing Center Is Named a Winner of IIDA’s 10th Annual Healthcare Design Awards
Gensler’s design of the Bill Richards Center for Healing was recognized as a 2022 Healthcare Design Award winner in the Pediatric Hospitals and Ambulatory Specialty Clinic categories.
October 21, 2022
In The Media
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Green Building & Design
Insights on Expanding Our Idea of the 20-Minute City
Design Resilience Leader Stacey Olson discusses how projects like Detroit’s Infill on the Cut mixed-use development create “beautiful places to live, shop, and play.”
August 18, 2022
In The Media
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The Globe and Mail
A High-End Gym Designed to Attract Workers Back to the Office
Gensler Toronto Design Director Joy Charbonneau discusses designing The Current, a boutique-style fitness center “with incredible views” at CIBC SQUARE.
July 05, 2022
In The Media
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Frame
How Biophilic Design Can Be Used More Extensively in Offices
Frame interviewed Gensler Portland’s Melissa Mizell about office biophilia and why such “investments in health and wellbeing will deliver value for tenants and their employees.”
June 15, 2022
In The Media
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FacilitiesNet
Gensler Wellness Leader Stacey Olson Discusses How Office Spaces Are Being Reimagined Post-Pandemic
Building owners are making unique shifts in hopes of bringing back tenants. Olson references how Gensler repositioned an L.A. building into an art gallery and creative hub.
May 11, 2022
In The Media
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Bisnow Dallas-Fort Worth
How “Healthy Buildings” Can Coax Workers Back to the Office With Health and Wellness Amenities
Gensler Dallas Principal Paul Manno discussed how organizations have a new perspective on how they can positively impact health in the workplace.
January 26, 2022
In The Media
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Healthcare Snapshots
Healthcare Snapshots Featured Bill Richards Center for Healing at Aquilino Cancer Center
Gensler created a unique space that is “safe, supportive, and biophilic with a high sense of natural materiality.”
October 26, 2021
In The Media
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Work Design Magazine
Redefining Wellness In The “New” Workplace
Gensler’s Sharon Steinberg shares key considerations to creating a fully inclusive and supportive workplace with wellness as the focus.
July 22, 2021
In The Media
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Interior Design Magazine
Gensler Designs a Community-Based Patient Facility at Columbia Primary Care Manhattan Valley
The first in a series of patient facilities for Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City incorporates hospitality and residential design, right from reception.
July 19, 2021
In The Media
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Gensler Design Exchange Podcast
Designed to Perform: Adapting a Champion’s Mindset for Success at Work
Gensler’s Brandon Larcom interviewed Olympic swimmer Madeleine Crippen and trainer Errick McAdams about how a healthy lifestyle can build endurance and enhance workplace performance.
July 15, 2021