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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 Strategic Partnerships Are Shaping Academic Campus Development
Facing respective challenges, institutional-private sector collaborations can offer mutually beneficial opportunities for universities to expand...
BLOG
The Future of Lab Automation: Opportunities, Challenges, and Sustainable Design Solutions
Automation in labs isn’t just about advanced tools; it’s about creating an ecosystem that considers workflow efficiency, spatial design, and...
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...
BLOG
Office-to-Residential Conversions: What Boston Can Learn From New York’s Momentum
New York City’s conversion success story offers valuable lessons for Boston as it seeks to address its own housing shortage amid a surplus of office...
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...
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
10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Hybrid World
Here are 10 considerations, tools, and methodologies for creating a better workplace experience and attracting people back to the office in a hybrid...
BLOG
The Benefits of Repurposing Stranded Assets as First-Generation Labs
As we consider the possibilities of conversions for stranded assets, it’s important to identify laboratories as a potential use.
BLOG
Fast.Forward.: A New Model for Academic Science Facilities
We created a data-powered concept for how academic science facilities of the future will perform, feel, and look.
PODCAST
Office-to-Residential Conversions: Mandates, Myths, and Possibilities
Experts weigh the opportunities, myths, and challenges of converting increasingly vacant office buildings into much needed housing.
BLOG
The Benefits of Nurturing Organizational Pride in Life Science Workplaces
In our latest survey of research scientists, we uncovered how laboratory design can promote a sense of organizational pride.
BLOG
Designing for the Convergence of Science at The Engine
MIT’s The Engine enables scientists, engineers, academics, and business leaders to collaborate under one roof.
BLOG
5 Strategies for Labs to Meet ESG Targets
These key strategies can achieve significant reductions in a laboratory tenant’s carbon footprint.
BLOG
From Pilots to Policy: Exploring Office-to-Residential Conversions in Boston
There are clear steps that can be taken to address the housing shortage, and we believe there is huge opportunity in office-to-residential conversion.
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...
BLOG
Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry (Part 2)
In this episode of the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, we continue a conversation around mass timber.
BLOG
Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry
In this episode of the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, our guests discuss what mass timber is, where it comes from, and why we should be using a lot...
BLOG
The Bon Brings A New Model for Urban Living to Boston
Adjacent to mass transit in the heart of Boston’s Fenway neighborhood, the Bon’s shared amenities and unique ground floor program create a new kind...
PODCAST
Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry
We discuss unique considerations and sustainability and structural benefits of mass timber construction.
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...
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
Experimentation in the Workplace: Adopting a Software Mindset
To deliver a work system that's designed for success in the current hybrid work environment, design teams must adopt a rapid cyclical development...
RESEARCH
U.S. Workplace Survey 2022
The future of the office is about creating the right experiences. Beyond collaboration, employees want the office to be a great place to get work...
CASE STUDY
Mass General Brigham Integrated Care Facility
Mass General Brigham’s new ambulatory care facility is poised to become a vital community resource and act as a high-performance prototype for...
BLOG
High Street Place: From Unused Office Lobby to Vibrant Culinary Destination
In the heart of Boston’s Financial District, we partnered with the Rockpoint Group to transform an underutilized atrium between two Class A office...
BLOG
The Future of Office and Lab Space Has No Boundaries
As more life sciences companies aim for increased transparency for the sake of engagement, talent retention, and breakthrough innovation, the...
PODCAST
Mass Timber: What It Is and Why We Need to Use a Lot More of It
Industry experts uncover what mass timber is, where it comes from, and why we should be using a lot more of it.
BLOG
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...
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.
BLOG
Labs and Sciences: Consider This for Adaptive Reuse
The lab and life sciences industry is seeing a spike in interest from real estate investors, but this specialized industry brings its own unique real...
BLOG
Why the New Workplace Ecosystem Is Key to the Future of Work
As we think about the future of work, consider a new workplace ecosystem — a Swiss Army knife approach to choosing the whole suite of places and...
BLOG
3 Lessons From Today’s Students That Will Shape the Future Workplace
Coupling findings from Gensler’s Workplace Survey and Education Engagement Index research, we’ve identified three key findings that the future...
BLOG
How Are Companies and Employees Planning for the Future of the Office?
Amid a constantly evolving pandemic, how are companies and employees planning for a return to the office? Gensler's workplace survey research offers...
BLOG
Trends Shaping the Future of Mixed Use and Retail Centers
Mixed use spaces are in demand because mixed use provides flexibility, diversity, and a range of experiences. So, what’s next for mixed-use...
BLOG
Campus Masterplan 2.0: Including an Integrated Wellness Strategy
By creating a network of engagements and reinforcements throughout a student’s daily journey, academic institutions can normalize wellness and shift...
BLOG
Gensler Voices: Alex Fernández on the Art of Drawing to Envision a Better Future
We sat down with Alex Fernandez, design director, Gensler Boston, to ask him about his career path and the impact that design and architecture can...
BLOG
Beyond the Lab Module: What Scientists Want From New-Age Lab Buildings
We interviewed four scientists with varied fields of research about their workplace experiences to learn how designers can create environments that...
BLOG
Five Considerations for the New Lab of the Future
We have an opportunity to design a new kind of lab environment — one where ideation and innovation take center stage.
BLOG
Delivering Wellness on Campus so Students Can Thrive
Here are five considerations for colleges and universities to create a campus-wide wellness ecosystem that supports students where they are.
BLOG
The New Hybrid Sciences Office Will Blend Tech Workplace, Hospitality, Brand Design, and Storytelling
To cultivate work environments that enable our sciences clients to innovate, we must look beyond traditional conventions of buildings and workspaces...
BLOG
Designing Schools for Equity and Engagement
To design the equitable and engaging post-pandemic school, we looked to three recent projects that exemplify the ideas of connectivity, adaptability...
BLOG
Real Estate’s Big Pivot to Science
For life science organizations in prime markets there’s a shortage of research-capable space. But owners and developers can make a pivot to science...
BLOG
Reduce, Reuse, Reclad at One Post Office Square
At One Post Office Square in Boston, an aging concrete office tower offered an opportunity to explore the value proposition in renovating aging...
DIALOGUE ARTICLE
A Civic Gateway Rooted in Place
A legendary site in downtown Boston is the catalyst for neighborhood transformation.
