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2024
DESIGN FORECAST

2024

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

Office-to-Residential Conversions: What Boston Can Learn From New York’s Momentum
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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...

Global Workplace Survey 2024
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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
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The 8 Trends Shaping Design in 2024

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

10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Hybrid World
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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...

The Benefits of Repurposing Stranded Assets as First-Generation Labs
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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.

Fast.Forward.: A New Model for Academic Science Facilities
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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.

Office-to-Residential Conversions: Mandates, Myths, and Possibilities
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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.

The Benefits of Nurturing Organizational Pride in Life Science Workplaces
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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.

Designing for the Convergence of Science at The Engine
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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.

5 Strategies for Labs to Meet ESG Targets
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5 Strategies for Labs to Meet ESG Targets

These key strategies can achieve significant reductions in a laboratory tenant’s carbon footprint.

From Pilots to Policy: Exploring Office-to-Residential Conversions in Boston
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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.

Back to Basics: 5 Strategies to Approach Net Zero Energy
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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...

Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry (Part 2)
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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.

Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry
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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...

The Bon Brings A New Model for Urban Living to Boston
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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...

Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry
PODCAST

Mass Timber: The Sustainable Solution for the Design Industry

We discuss unique considerations and sustainability and structural benefits of mass timber construction.

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...

City Pulse 2022: Urban Mobility Report
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...

Experimentation in the Workplace: Adopting a Software Mindset
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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...

U.S. Workplace Survey 2022
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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...

Mass General Brigham Integrated Care Facility
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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...

High Street Place: From Unused Office Lobby to Vibrant Culinary Destination
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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...

The Future of Office and Lab Space Has No Boundaries
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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...

Mass Timber: What It Is and Why We Need to Use a Lot More of It
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.

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...

5 Ways ESG Can Influence Design and Create Opportunities
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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.

Labs and Sciences: Consider This for Adaptive Reuse
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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...

Why the New Workplace Ecosystem Is Key to the Future of Work
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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...

3 Lessons From Today’s Students That Will Shape the Future Workplace
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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...

How Are Companies and Employees Planning for the Future of the Office?
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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...

Trends Shaping the Future of Mixed Use and Retail Centers
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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...

Campus Masterplan 2.0: Including an Integrated Wellness Strategy
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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...

Gensler Voices: Alex Fernández on the Art of Drawing to Envision a Better Future
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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...

Beyond the Lab Module: What Scientists Want From New-Age Lab Buildings
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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...

Five Considerations for the New Lab of the Future
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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.

5 Considerations for Designing the Future of Higher Education
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5 Considerations for Designing the Future of Higher Education

Learning has taken a hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the experience may lead to a future that is nothing like the past.

Delivering Wellness on Campus so Students Can Thrive
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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.

The New Hybrid Sciences Office Will Blend Tech Workplace, Hospitality, Brand Design, and Storytelling
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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...

Towards Justice, Equity, and Design
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Towards Justice, Equity, and Design

To bring diverse voices together around issues related to race and diversity, Gensler's Justice, Equity & Design Dialogue series aims to ignite a...

Designing Schools for Equity and Engagement
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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...

Real Estate’s Big Pivot to Science
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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...

Reduce, Reuse, Reclad at One Post Office Square
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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...

How Developers of Life Sciences Ecosystems Fuel Resilient Communities
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How Developers of Life Sciences Ecosystems Fuel Resilient Communities

Developers should consider these five key factors to help life sciences ecosystems thrive today and fortify resilient communities and cities for...

How Education Can Build an Optimistic, Equitable Future
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How Education Can Build an Optimistic, Equitable Future

How can we impart positive change on our schools, colleges, and universities, to ultimately shape more equitable communities?

A Civic Gateway Rooted in Place
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A Civic Gateway Rooted in Place

A legendary site in downtown Boston is the catalyst for neighborhood transformation.