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The Future Is Mixed Use: How Principles of Mixed Use Design Will Restore Our Communities
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The Future Is Mixed Use: How Principles of Mixed Use Design Will Restore Our Communities

Here are four principles for creating mixed-use environments that will future-proof real estate.

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
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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...

Why Industrial Developments Must Be Good Community Neighbors
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Why Industrial Developments Must Be Good Community Neighbors

How architects and designers can help data centers and industrial facilities become good stewards of the populations they serve.

The 5 Attributes That Define an Immersive Experience
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The 5 Attributes That Define an Immersive Experience

When successful, immersive experiences give people a chance to connect deeply with the present moment and with others around them.

Data Keeps Us Going: How Data Centers Power Society
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Data Keeps Us Going:
How Data Centers Power Society

In today’s digital age, data, and data centers, have become as essential a utility as electricity or water.

Designing with Intention: Creating Emotional Connections Through Immersive Experiences
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Designing with Intention: Creating Emotional Connections Through Immersive Experiences

In this Q&A, Gensler’s global leaders of Digital Experience Design and Entertainment unpack the concept of experiential architecture and what makes...

How Design Can Integrate Social Value Into Residential Developments
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How Design Can Integrate Social Value Into Residential Developments

Design plays an integral role in fostering social value within residential areas.

What’s the Recipe for Retail Success? Food
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What’s the Recipe for Retail Success? Food

With a heightened consumer appetite for engaging social spaces, food and beverage are key ingredients for physical retail viability.

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...

What Gensler’s Education Engagement Index Reveals About the Future of Hybrid Learning
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What Gensler’s Education Engagement Index Reveals About the Future of Hybrid Learning

An exploration into the future of the hybrid learning experience.

The Return of the City
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The Return of the City

We examined how global perceptions have shifted from 2021 to 2023 across 15 global cities to understand the obstacles and opportunities facing cities...

Using Design to Bring Hope
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Using Design to Bring Hope

As design professionals, how do we incorporate positive and equitable impacts into our design? How can we use the power of design to change lives and...

Decarbonizing the Built Environment for a More Sustainable Future
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Decarbonizing the Built Environment for a More Sustainable Future

By acting quickly and working with industry partners to develop and promote lower embodied energy materials, we can catalyze a low-carbon marketplace.

Putting the Patient at the Center of the Health-And-Wellness Equation
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Putting the Patient at the Center of the Health-And-Wellness Equation

Consumer culture, personalized medicine, and technology are extending conversations about well-being far beyond doctors’ offices and hospitals.

Using Design to Support Case-Based Learning in Medical Education
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Using Design to Support Case-Based Learning in Medical Education

At the University of California Irvine, Gensler created an active learning center designed to facilitate a new style of hands-on, experiential...

Ensuring the Future Health of Our Cities
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Ensuring the Future Health of Our Cities

The places we build today will remain standing for generations to come, so they must be able to transform and accommodate new uses as the need arises.

What Young Associates Want From Modern Law Firms
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What Young Associates Want From Modern Law Firms

The legal workplace plays a critical role in retention. Now, more than ever, it must deliver an experience.

How Customer Experience Centers Unify Spatial and Digital Branding
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How Customer Experience Centers Unify Spatial and Digital Branding

A new approach to customer experience center design is helping businesses reimagine customer engagement.

The Future of Receiving Healthcare at Home
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The Future of Receiving Healthcare at Home

With a new vision for the healthcare landscape, the home will begin to be one of many spaces people can expect to receive high-quality care.

Education and the BIPOC Student Experience
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Education and the BIPOC Student Experience

We conducted research with a diverse group of New York City school students to understand how to create inclusive school buildings that feel...

What’s the Recipe for a Great Central Business District?
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What’s the Recipe for a Great Central Business District?

Honing in on the amenities, activities, transportation options, and experiences that urban residents desire.

The Trends Shaping the Future of Hospitality
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The Trends Shaping the Future of Hospitality

What are the biggest trends impacting hospitality operators? Gensler’s global hospitality leaders discuss what’s next for hospitality design.

Trends to Watch: Shaping the Future of Higher Education
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Trends to Watch: Shaping the Future of Higher Education

With institutions facing challenges such as declining enrollment and rising costs, Gensler’s Education leaders discuss what’s next for the future of...

Rethinking Law Firm Workplaces in the Age of Hybrid Work
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Rethinking Law Firm Workplaces in the Age of Hybrid Work

The law office of the future will be a place where lawyers will learn to work differently, supported by innovative design and technology.

Retail Design for Better Consumer and Employee Experiences
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Retail Design for Better Consumer and Employee Experiences

The recent resurgence of in-person retail brings with it not only a new consumer experience, but an equal emphasis on a new employee experience.

What Makes a Great Retail Experience? Community, Connection, and Exhibition
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What Makes a Great Retail Experience? Community, Connection, and Exhibition

Astute retail and hospitality brands recognize that in-person connection is a vital part of their offerings. But what does that visceral experience...

Elevating the Retail Experience: 4 Lessons From Airport Lounge Design
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Elevating the Retail Experience: 4 Lessons From Airport Lounge Design

Here are four design insights from airport lounge environments that retailers can use to elevate retail consumer environments and experiences.

Adapting Big Box Retail Stores to Healthcare Clinics
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Adapting Big Box Retail Stores to Healthcare Clinics

Transforming abandoned storefronts into dynamic healthcare clinics can be a cost-effective and efficient way to deliver medical services to...

How Changing Traveler Demands Are Reshaping Hospitality
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How Changing Traveler Demands Are Reshaping Hospitality

Consumers are demanding more from their travel experiences. Here’s how hospitality can respond.

The Law Firm of the Future: Can a Workplace be Restorative?
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The Law Firm of the Future: Can a Workplace be Restorative?

Over the past year, we've taken a deep dive into the measurable impacts facing professional service firms and how these impacts are affecting the...

What Airports Can Learn From Work, Sports, Healthcare, and Retail
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What Airports Can Learn From Work, Sports, Healthcare, and Retail

Here are five cues that airports can take from innovations, insights, and perspectives from other parallel industries.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Data Center Design
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Data Center Design

The increased demands on data centers to perform AI computing is driving architects, engineers, and owners to find innovative design solutions.

The Future of Healthcare as an Integrated Ecosystem of Health and Care
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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.

A Material Approach to Lowering Carbon and Changing the Building Industry
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A Material Approach to Lowering Carbon and Changing the Building Industry

Gensler Co-CEO Jordan Goldstein talks about Gensler’s Product Sustainability (GPS) Standards and what it means for the industry.

Resuscitating Buildings for Life Sciences and Healthcare
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Resuscitating Buildings for Life Sciences and Healthcare

By reusing existing buildings, such as empty retail stores and office buildings, architects can bring health, sciences, and wellness services closer...

Reinventing the Airport as an All-in-One Facility
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Reinventing the Airport as an All-in-One Facility

Can an airport simultaneously be a great international gateway, a thriving community asset, and an efficient transfer hub?

Why Airports Must Create a ‘Place of Sense’ to Engage Travelers
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Why Airports Must Create a ‘Place of Sense’ to Engage Travelers

To transform a passenger’s journey from good to great, we believe the only way to create a sense of place is to first create a “place of sense.”

5 Trends Changing the Shape of Healthcare Design
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5 Trends Changing the Shape of Healthcare Design

The way we deliver and receive care is changing. Here, one of Gensler's healthcare leaders shares her thoughts on five trends currently influencing...

Future of Healthcare
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Future of Healthcare

Our research on the future of healthcare investigates how healthcare design is shaping patient and worker experiences and benefiting communities.

Rethinking Engagement: Strategies for Immersive Design
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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...

The Future of Retail Health and the New Healthcare Experience
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The Future of Retail Health and the New Healthcare Experience

Retail health is emerging as a means for delivering quality, convenient care and a model for healthcare systems expanding their networks or services...

Book Depository Jump-Starts Ford’s Detroit Innovation District
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Book Depository Jump-Starts Ford’s Detroit Innovation District

As Ford continues to evolve its business for a new century, the company has returned to its roots in the Motor City.

An Evolving Practice: Industrial Architecture
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An Evolving Practice: Industrial Architecture

Today, we are seeing production and logistics facilities pop-up closer to, and even within, our cities and communities.

How Smart Mixed-Use Environments Can Redefine Urban Spaces
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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...

Trends to Watch: Shaping the Future of Attainable Housing
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Trends to Watch: Shaping the Future of Attainable Housing

Gensler Residential Leader Kelly Farrell discusses attainable housing trends and potential solutions.

The Future of Travel? Start With the Future Traveler.
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The Future of Travel? Start With the Future Traveler.

To be truly inclusive, airports must address a diversity of passenger and employee needs.

Avon Lake Renewable Master Plan
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Avon Lake Renewable Master Plan

A decommissioned power plant was converted into a community amenity through land remediation and economic development strategies that breathe new...

Consumer Goods Companies Are Now Competing for Tech Talent
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Consumer Goods Companies Are Now Competing for Tech Talent

As more consumer goods companies look to diversify their talent pool, how do they compete with the new expectations and needs of workers? Here are...

The Urban Block Club: A New Model to Revive Our Central Business Districts
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The Urban Block Club: A New Model to Revive Our Central Business Districts

To revitalize cities, we can reimagine a resilient, community-focused approach that brings different property owners within a district or block to...

The Airport of Choice
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The Airport of Choice

For those who elect to travel, having the ability to curate a custom airport journey based on individual needs and preferences could encourage people...

Designing an Equitable and Connected Airport Experience for Every Traveler
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Designing an Equitable and Connected Airport Experience for Every Traveler

In this episode of the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, four Gensler aviation industry experts explore how the pandemic has introduced airport design...