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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.
BLOG
How AI Is Driving Innovation in the European Data Centre Market
The scale of data centre demand is driving innovations in energy generation, grid infrastructure, and cooling technologies.
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...
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.
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.
DESIGN FORECAST
2024
Design Forecast 2024 explores design trends and strategies across 33 practice areas that are transforming challenges into positive change and...
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Imagining a Smart Recycling Reward System That Transforms the Way We Look at Trash
By transforming recycling into a rewarding, interactive process, we can inspire collective action to revolutionise waste management.
BLOG
Office-to-Residential Conversion: A New Value Proposition for the German Market
This adaptive reuse strategy represents a value proposition that could help the country meet housing demand and achieve decarbonisation goals.
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...
BLOG
Severe Weather: The New Design Imperative
Buildings must be designed to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public — and our infrastructure must be designed to withstand these...
TRENDS
The 8 Trends Shaping Design in 2024
Here are the most important signals and key opportunities we see in the building industry today.
BLOG
Why Designing for the Human Experience Is Key to Advancing SDG Goals
In times of radical change and crisis, we can leverage design for positive impact. Design is pivotal to achieving sustainable development goals.
RESEARCH
Global Workplace Survey Comparison 2023
We surveyed office workers around the globe to understand how the workplace should evolve to meet their needs.
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Hybrid Is Here to Stay. So Is the Office.
Gensler’s global workplace research reveals an optimistic future: while hybrid work is here to stay, the office is needed more than ever.
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Why It’s Time to Apply Regenerative Systems Design on a Global Scale
Regenerative architecture offers a more sustainable path forward.
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Trends to Watch: The Evolution of the Sciences Workplace
In the Puget Sound region and beyond, the science industry is growing in our post-pandemic economy.
BLOG
5 Conversations That Define 2023’s Evolving Workplace
Here are five design trends emerging as key drivers for the future workplace.
BLOG
Rethinking Engagement: Strategies for Immersive Design
How can we drive and sustain meaningful engagement between our clients’ spaces and their employees, partners, and customers? Immersive experiences...
BLOG
Why Brand Fleets Are Key to Creating an Engaging, Multiplatform Experience
Brand fleets can create brand loyalty and reach the customer of now and the younger audience of the future.
RESEARCH
Hospitality Experience Survey 2023
As travel ramps up, our survey explores the growing blend of business and leisure travel, new definitions of luxury hospitality experiences, and...
BLOG
The Future of City Centres
The pandemic has prompted a rethink of the role our city centres as they become more of a lifestyle location rather than a traditional work...
BLOG
Implementing Sustainable Design Strategies in the Retail Environment
Here’s how linking sustainability efforts to the customer experience helps grow brand value and move us toward a more sustainable future.
BLOG
3 Key Ingredients to Creating a Competitive Advantage in the Future of Work
Why HR, Corporate Real Estate, and Brand need to come together to help companies build a thriving workplace.
RESEARCH
Deutschland Arbeitsplatzumfrage 2023
Arbeitnehmende in Deutschland schätzen das Büro als Ort der sozialen Interaktion und zur Vernetzung mit ihrem Team.
RESEARCH
Germany Workplace Survey 2023
We surveyed office workers in Germany to understand how they are using the office now and their ideal workplace of the future. We found that office...
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
Back to Basics: 5 Strategies to Approach Net Zero Energy
Tenants are demanding healthy, energy-efficient buildings with measurable data to support ESG and talent retention goals. Here are five strategies to...
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How Smart Mixed-Use Environments Can Redefine Urban Spaces
Mixed-use developments, when coupled with smart technologies, can deliver meaningful experiences, while providing developers data insights to...
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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...
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...
BLOG
Nature + Nurture in the Inclusive Workplace
As tech companies plot their partial return to the workplace, some are ready to embrace our latest challenge: How we take insights from the past two...
BLOG
How the Flight to Experience Can Unlock Value for Commercial Office Buildings
It’s time to rethink the traditional commercial office building model — by redefining “quality” in office buildings and creating workplaces that...
BLOG
Trends to Watch: What’s Next for the Future of Workplace and Workplace Design
Clients are experimenting with hybrid work, policies changes, spatial needs, and how to create a workplace that supports what workers need. Here’s...
RESEARCH
City Pulse 2022: Urban Mobility Report
We surveyed residents across 30 cities around the world to understand their mobility experiences, preferences for urban transportation, and opinions...
BLOG
From Briefing to Experience, Designing Today’s Customer Experience Center
For many organizations, from technology, to finance, to sports teams, Customer Experience Centers (CECs) are the catalyst for developing and...
BLOG
5 Ways ESG Can Influence Design and Create Opportunities
Here’s how we’re expanding our understanding of ESG metrics so we can tangibly quantify the positive impacts design innovations can bring.
