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Office-to-Hotel Conversions: Resilient Opportunities for Downtown Districts
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Office-to-Hotel Conversions: Resilient Opportunities for Downtown Districts

Older and smaller Class B or C office buildings have been hit hard by high vacancy rates. Converting them to efficient, business travel hotels could...

How Cities Can Establish Resilient Communities
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How Cities Can Establish Resilient Communities

To mitigate potential damage and risk, cities can form resilient communities to proactively prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster.

City Pulse 2025
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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...

Why Resilience Planning Is Crucial to Safeguard Health Systems
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Why Resilience Planning Is Crucial to Safeguard Health Systems

Investing in proactive resilience planning, rather than reacting to weather and climate disasters as they unfold, will ensure uninterrupted, quality...

The Uncertainty of Electric Power: A View from Houston
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The Uncertainty of Electric Power: A View from Houston

Through innovative design, regulatory support, and community participation, we can enhance our resilience to extreme weather events and ensure a more...

How Repositioning Houston’s Astrodome Can Serve as a Model for Aging Sports and Entertainment Venues
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How Repositioning Houston’s Astrodome Can Serve as a Model for Aging Sports and Entertainment Venues

A proposal to redevelop and repurpose the iconic stadium into a multi-use venue would preserve the building’s historic integrity while giving it new...

How Gaming Can Transform Activation and Transition Planning for New Healthcare Campuses
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How Gaming Can Transform Activation and Transition Planning for New Healthcare Campuses

A gamified approach to training can help educate and engage staff when transitioning to new healthcare facilities.

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...

The Powerful Influence of Experience Design in Transforming Retail
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The Powerful Influence of Experience Design in Transforming Retail

The intersection of retail and experience design yields curated atmospheres that foster community connection and strengthen brand loyalty.

Global Climate Action Survey 2024
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Global Climate Action Survey 2024

Gensler surveyed people around the world about their experiences with climate-related issues, such as extreme weather, and perceptions of whether...

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.

Laying the Groundwork for Climate Preparedness
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Laying the Groundwork for Climate Preparedness

Gensler’s Resilience Preparedness Framework develops concrete actions that designers can take to address climate shifts.

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...

Rethink, Redirect, and Rewild: Nature-Based Design Solutions for Carbon Sequestration
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Rethink, Redirect, and Rewild: Nature-Based Design Solutions for Carbon Sequestration

By utilizing nature-based design solutions to rethink carbon sequestration in our work, we have an opportunity to make a positive impact on our net...

Three Considerations for Repurposing Stranded Assets for Education
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Three Considerations for Repurposing Stranded Assets for Education

In many instances, abandoned buildings can be converted into thriving schools when they prioritize sustainability, focus on community impact, and...

Equity and Aging in the 20-Minute City
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Equity and Aging in the 20-Minute City

By designing spaces that prioritize universal design principles and connectivity, we can create more accessible, purposeful places for seniors.

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.

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.

Global Climate Action Survey 2023
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Global Climate Action Survey 2023

We surveyed residents in eight countries to understand how they are experiencing extreme weather and the steps they are willing to take to combat...

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.

To Foster an Engaged Student Body, Holistic Campus Design Is Key
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To Foster an Engaged Student Body, Holistic Campus Design Is Key

To address declining enrollment and changing student expectations, higher education campus design should strive to build an engaged community.

Implementing Science Research Lab Design Strategies in Wineries
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Implementing Science Research Lab Design Strategies in Wineries

Similar to a research lab, wineries and winemakers require a space for analysis and discovery that balances equipment requirements with human-centric...

Younger Generations Work Differently. What Does This Mean for the Future Workplace?
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Younger Generations Work Differently. What Does This Mean for the Future Workplace?

It is crucial to understand generational differences to support a productive and engaged workforce.

3 Ways the Most Innovative Companies Work Differently
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3 Ways the Most Innovative Companies Work Differently

As office workers are returning to the office, we wanted to know: do Innovators work differently, and do they value the office differently?

The Future of Hospitality Is Local
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The Future of Hospitality Is Local

Here’s why embracing local cultures and communities is key to creating an authentic hospitality experience.

Achieving LEED Zero Energy With HARC
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Achieving LEED Zero Energy With HARC

Data-driven sustainability tactics qualified HARC headquarters to become the first LEED Zero Energy Certified commercial building in Texas.

How Biophilia, Biomimicry, and Bioclimatic Strategies Will Transform the Future of Design
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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.

Climate Change Is Here. It’s Time to Invest in Our Collective Future.
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Climate Change Is Here. It’s Time to Invest in Our Collective Future.

Data from Gensler’s climate change survey offers insights into how climate change is dramatically affecting the international community.

Thinking Outside the Wooden Box: An Alternate Construction Method for Resilient Affordable Housing
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Thinking Outside the Wooden Box: An Alternate Construction Method for Resilient Affordable Housing

Thin-shell concrete construction has just recently begun to establish a foothold in the United States, but has been used globally for years.

An Opportunity to Unlock Value for Underutilized Assets: Office Conversions for Senior Living
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An Opportunity to Unlock Value for Underutilized Assets: Office Conversions for Senior Living

In the race to convert vacant office buildings, developers should consider senior living.

10 Spaces That Are No Longer Optional to Create a Great Workplace Experience
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10 Spaces That Are No Longer Optional to Create a Great Workplace Experience

What amenities can bring people back to the office? Here are 10 spaces that have the greatest impact on workplace effectiveness and experience.

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...

Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of ESG
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Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of ESG

Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability leaders discuss the trends and challenges they are seeing as clients lay out ESG goals and how those trends...

City Pulse 2022: Urban Mobility Report
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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...

U.S. Workplace Survey 2022
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...

Gensler Voices: Ana Salazar on How Her Hispanic Heritage Ignited a Passion for Sustainability
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Gensler Voices: Ana Salazar on How Her Hispanic Heritage Ignited a Passion for Sustainability

Ana Salazar, design manager for Gensler Houston, chats about her upbringing in Monterrey, Mexico, her journey to Gensler, and how it all influences...

Are People the New Workplace Amenity?
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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...

A YMCA Facility Reconceptualized to Prioritize Wellness and Community
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A YMCA Facility Reconceptualized to Prioritize Wellness and Community

As a facility that had to be reconceptualized and designed during the pandemic, the Holcomb Family YMCA in Spring, Texas is designed to help members...

Houston’s First Innovation District Is Established With an Adaptive Reuse Approach
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Houston’s First Innovation District Is Established With an Adaptive Reuse Approach

Reimagined to include Class A office space, shared workspace, classrooms, a lab, and maker space, the Ion launches a new, community-centered nucleus...

A Framework for Fostering Climate Resilience and Preparedness in the Built Environment
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A Framework for Fostering Climate Resilience and Preparedness in the Built Environment

Within Gensler's U.S. Climate Action Survey 2022, we introduce a new roadmap for climate action through design that is anchored by four pillars...

How an Iconic Houston Park Helped Spark the Development of Downtown
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How an Iconic Houston Park Helped Spark the Development of Downtown

The creation of parks and access to the outdoors has singlehandedly changed the way downtown Houston is accessed and utilized.

To Reinvigorate Downtown Cores, Developers Should Adopt a Mixed-Use Mindset
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To Reinvigorate Downtown Cores, Developers Should Adopt a Mixed-Use Mindset

To retain and attract post-pandemic tenants in urban cores, developers will need to adopt a mixed-use mindset, with a focus on the human experience...

How TK Elevator’s New Workplace Spurs Connectivity Through Experiential Design
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How TK Elevator’s New Workplace Spurs Connectivity Through Experiential Design

TK Elevator’s North America Regional Business Support Center merges experiential design with interactive spaces to achieve brand awareness and...

Gensler Voices: Willie Kirkpatrick, Gensler Houston
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Gensler Voices: Willie Kirkpatrick, Gensler Houston

We sat down with Willie Kirkpatrick, architect, Gensler Houston, to ask him about her career path and the impact that design and architecture can...