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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Marriott International Global Headquarters
Bethesda, Maryland
Marriott’s new headquarters is a physical manifestation of a world-class hospitality company that knows its people are the driving force behind its innovation.
Holcomb Family YMCA
Spring, Texas
Gensler reimagined the design of the Holcomb Family YMCA from a traditional building to a facility with flexible indoor-outdoor spaces where members can gather and exercise together.
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.
OhioHealth Neuroscience Wellness Center
Columbus, Ohio
The Neuroscience Wellness Center at OhioHealth is envisioned as a place for a community of users to take charge of their recovery process.
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 retail health location.
Bill Richards Center for Healing at Aquilino Cancer Center
Rockville, Maryland
The Bill Richards Center for Healing at Aquilino Cancer Center explores new approaches to wellness and psychological therapies for cancer patients
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.
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...
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.
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 features a design that sets people and business into motion.
American Physical Therapy Association Headquarters
Alexandria, Virginia
The new headquarters of the American Physical Therapy Association empowers employee collaboration and promotes mobility, accessibility, and sustainability.
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.
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.
Design for Distancing
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore's Design for Distancing challenge called on the city's design and public health communities to scope, develop, and implement interventions to reactivate its main streets and arts districts.
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.
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.
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...
UPCycle
Austin, Texas
Guided by the concepts of upcycling, adaptive reuse, and a sustainable design approach, Gensler repositioned a dilapidated old warehouse into creative offices.
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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...
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...
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...
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.
Delos
New York, New York
Delos, the creator of the WELL Building Standard, engaged Gensler to design its headquarters and a branded digital experience that illustrates its mission.
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.
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...
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.
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...
INSIGHTS
Blog
How Your Workplace Can Maximise Trust — and Why It Matters
Trust is foundational to doing good work and building strong professional teams. What if the workplace becomes the cornerstone of an emergent economy based upon trust?
Blog
The Future of Healthcare as an Integrated Ecosystem of Health and Care
By refocusing the U.S. health system on improving community health, we can provide better outcomes and address the industry's major challenges.
Blog
Designing Empathetic Workplaces Can Be a Key Differentiator
Empathy is a required trait of healthy workplaces and communities, and a key differentiator.
Blog
To Foster an Engaged Student Body, Holistic Campus Design Is Key
To address declining enrollment and changing student expectations, higher education campus design should strive to build an engaged community.
Blog
Revolutionizing Child Care: The Key to Enhancing Your Return-to-Office Strategy
By offering on-site or nearby child care options, businesses can position themselves as employers of choice.
Blog
Supporting Health, Well-Being, and Safety Through Trauma-Informed Design
We’ve outlined seven strategies that any project can implement to support recovery.
Blog
How Biophilia, Biomimicry, and Bioclimatic Strategies Will Transform the Future of Design
By incorporating biophilic, bioclimatic, and biomimicry design strategies, we can raise the bar for what acting sustainably means.
Blog
What It Means to Be a “Healthy Building”
Healthy buildings have a direct impact on our ability to thrive. Here are some strategies for future projects seeking to emphasize health and well-being.
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
Fifth + Tillery
Fifth + Tillery, a warehouse converted into a multi-tenant office building, creates a draw for creative tenants in Austin via a high-performance space that produces its own energy, captures water runoff, and nurtures a rain garden.
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, and...
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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Washingtonian
Bill Richards Aquilino Cancer Center Is ‘At the Forefront of a Budding Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine’
Gensler transformed the 2,700-square-foot concrete shell into an elegant, functioning clinic in Rockville, Md.
July 31, 2023
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American Institute of Architects
AIA Honors OhioHealth Neuroscience Wellness Center, Designed by Gensler, in the 2023 National Healthcare Design Awards
One juror noted that the wellness center “clearly addresses the needs of the clientele it’s serving. It also captures the idea of beauty so well,” prioritizing the surrounding landscape.
July 17, 2023
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
In The Media
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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
In The Media
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Medical Construction & Design
How To Create a Warm, Welcoming Experience for Patients and Visitors Alike
Gensler Wellness Leader Tama Duffy Day and Design Director Bonny Slater share tips for creating healthcare environments that curate positive first impressions.
March 01, 2023
In The Media
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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