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Tourist Club Area,
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Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
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City Pulse 2025
RESEARCH

City Pulse 2025

Gensler surveyed 33,000 people across 65 cities to uncover what makes a city magnetic — how it attracts new residents and keeps them wanting to stay.

Resilience by Design
SUSTAINABILITY

Resilience by Design

Our Resilience by Design Report presents solutions for transforming the built environment to achieve a net zero carbon impact across our portfolio...

2025
DESIGN FORECAST

2025

Explore Gensler’s Design Forecast 2025, a collection of top global design trends shaping the future of the human experience and the built environment.

5 Trends Shaping Design in 2025
INSIGHT

5 Trends Shaping Design in 2025

Here are the 5 most important and actionable themes shaping design in 2025, based on over 100 trends across 33 industries around the world.

2024
DESIGN FORECAST

2024

Design Forecast 2024 explores design trends and strategies across 33 practice areas that are transforming challenges into positive change and...

Regional Revitalization: Designing for Impact in the Middle East
BLOG

Regional Revitalization: Designing for Impact in the Middle East

Tim Martin, Managing Director, Gensler Middle East, discusses designing for the region’s revitalization opportunity.

Global Workplace Survey 2024
RESEARCH

Global Workplace Survey 2024

Gensler’s workplace survey reveals what matters most to design high-performing workplaces and proposes a new precedent for measuring workplace...

The 8 Trends Shaping Design in 2024
TRENDS

The 8 Trends Shaping Design in 2024

Here are the most important signals and key opportunities we see in the building industry today.

Ecological Urbanism Is the Future for Cities in the GCC
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Ecological Urbanism Is the Future for Cities in the GCC

As more people move to urban areas, it is essential that our urban spaces be designed in a more ecological manner.

COP28
INSIGHT

COP28

Gensler attended COP28 in Dubai to work together with government leaders, partners, and clients to inspire impactful sustainability solutions and...

City Pulse 2023: The Future of Central Business Districts
RESEARCH

City Pulse 2023: The Future of Central Business Districts

We surveyed urban residents in 53 cities across the globe to understand their experiences in central business districts from the perspectives of...

Global Workplace Survey Comparison 2023
RESEARCH

Global Workplace Survey Comparison 2023

We surveyed office workers around the globe to understand how the workplace should evolve to meet their needs.

What Gensler’s Middle East Workplace Survey Uncovers About How to Attract Talent Back to the Office
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What Gensler’s Middle East Workplace Survey Uncovers About How to Attract Talent Back to the Office

Gensler’s Middle East Workplace Survey 2023 examines three ways organizations can attract workers to return to the office.

Middle East Workplace Survey 2023
RESEARCH

Middle East Workplace Survey 2023

Our survey of office workers across Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait reveals opportunities to make critical workplace changes to adapt...

2023
DESIGN FORECAST

2023

Design Forecast identifies trends and design strategies that are shaping the future with strategic advice, research, and projects across Gensler’s 29...

Are People the New Workplace Amenity?
BLOG

Are People the New Workplace Amenity?

Being with people may be the new workplace amenity — and a compelling reason to draw people back to the office for those that haven’t returned.

Why It’s Time to Demand More From Our Workplace Experience
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Why It’s Time to Demand More From Our Workplace Experience

Here are 10 considerations for reimagining the workplace to deliver more from technology, be bold on resilience, and enhance our humanity, health...

2022
DESIGN FORECAST

2022

Design Forecast focuses on design strategies that will define the future of the human experience. With strategic advice, research, and projects from...

What Matters Most for Hospitality in Asia Pacific and the Middle East?
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What Matters Most for Hospitality in Asia Pacific and the Middle East?

These are difficult times, but travel will resume and we recognize that great hotels not only anticipate market changes, but they are also able to...

Why Today’s Universities Need to Be Global Institutions
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Why Today’s Universities Need to Be Global Institutions

How can universities mitigate a potential downturn? The answer is transnational education.

Sharing Our Work-From-Home Experience in Asia Pacific and the Middle East
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Sharing Our Work-From-Home Experience in Asia Pacific and the Middle East

After Gensler staff members in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region began working from home, we launched a survey to assess our people’s...

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...

Creating Data-Rich Workplaces to Detect and Curb Viral Transmission
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Creating Data-Rich Workplaces to Detect and Curb Viral Transmission

Workplaces can be optimized to collect population data — like thermal screening — so agencies and companies can make better informed decisions to...

Redesigning Mixed-Use Environments for a Post-Pandemic World
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Redesigning Mixed-Use Environments for a Post-Pandemic World

What will mixed-use and public places look like after this pandemic?

Re-Entry for Retailers: Returning to the Store
BLOG

Re-Entry for Retailers: Returning to the Store

Retailers can start formulating a plan for re-entry that meets consumers' new expectations of the marketplace.

What Happens When We Return to the Workplace?
BLOG

What Happens When We Return to the Workplace?

It’s not too early to start planning how we can return people to the workplace once the COVID-19 crisis ends.

Redefining Wellness in the Face of Pandemic
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Redefining Wellness in the Face of Pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis is causing us to redefine all our work around the concept of wellness and re-examine the importance of resilience.

Dialogue 35: TRANSFORMING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE THROUGH DESIGN
DIALOGUE ISSUE

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...

The New Shape of Retail Around the World
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

The New Shape of Retail Around the World

Across the globe, consumers’ tastes vary, but universally, they expect more from their retail environments than just a place to shop.

Today's Travelers Are Looking for All New Hotel Experiences
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Today's Travelers Are Looking for All New Hotel Experiences

Hotels are appealing to next-gen travelers with boutique brands, coworking spaces, and multimodal lobbies.

Navigating the Retail Revolution
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Navigating the Retail Revolution

Successful brands are transforming the retail experience, despite ongoing volatility in the industry.

Middle East Workplace Survey 2020
RESEARCH

Middle East Workplace Survey 2020

An investigation into the changing nature of the Middle East workplace.

Doubling Down on Our Commitment to Resilience
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Doubling Down on Our Commitment to Resilience

With hundreds of millions of square feet of buildings and interior design projects in the pipeline annually, we believe our impact and role in...

Design Technology's Infinite Possibilities
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Design Technology's Infinite Possibilities

By combining human potential with machine cognition, we can elevate our capabilities and bring our best to clients.

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

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...

Climate Change Solutions for Workplace Design
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Climate Change Solutions for Workplace Design

Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We have an opportunity to make a big impact.

Data and the Intelligent Workplace
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Data and the Intelligent Workplace

As the building blocks of smart cities, intelligent workplaces combine data and design to help people work smarter.

The New Shape of Building Design
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

The New Shape of Building Design

By providing things like large open floor plates, indoor-outdoor transitions, open sightlines, and bridges and stairs between floors, designers can...

Dialogue 33: DESIGNING CITIES FOR PEOPLE
DIALOGUE ISSUE

Dialogue 33: DESIGNING
CITIES
FOR PEOPLE

DESIGNING CITIES FOR PEOPLE No matter how you look at cities, people are always at the center. For that reason, we believe that human experience is...

Sizing Up the Future of Airports
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Sizing Up the Future of Airports

Airports big and small are welcoming travelers with terminals that reflect their locale.

Academic Incubators Are Seeding a New Wave of Innovation
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

Academic Incubators Are Seeding a New Wave of Innovation

Academic incubators are becoming engines for new economies, knowledge networks, and R&D.

Designing the Cities of the Future
DESIGN UPDATE

Designing the Cities of the Future

Modern cities can be built on time-honored principles and shaped by regional culture and local values, as demonstrated at Msheireb Downtown Doha.

More than a Mall, a ‘Retail City’
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

More than a Mall, a ‘Retail City’

The Avenues adds new experiences to a regional shopping destination.

Dialogue 32: LIFESTYLE AND THE FUTURE OF CITIES
DIALOGUE ISSUE

Dialogue 32: LIFESTYLE
AND THE FUTURE
OF CITIES

In this issue of Dialogue, we focus on the lifestyle sector and explore the role of convergence, experience, and placemaking in reshaping cities...

The Gensler Experience Index: Hospitality
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

The Gensler Experience Index: Hospitality

Design is a key differentiator between a good experience and a great one.

The Gensler Experience Index: Retail
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

The Gensler Experience Index: Retail

Design is the “X factor” that engages people and keeps them coming back.

Dialogue 31: WORK ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
DIALOGUE ISSUE

Dialogue 31: WORK
ONE SIZE DOES
NOT FIT ALL

By optimizing human potential, the most sought-after workplaces will attract talent, stimulate innovation, and yield the most successful business...

World of Leisure: The Middle East + Europe
DIALOGUE ARTICLE

World of Leisure: The Middle East + Europe

Many perspectives shape leisure in the region. But there’s common ground in customers’ desire for a rich mix of experiences.