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How a New Vision for Flexible Co-Living Conversions Can Support Housing Affordability
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How a New Vision for Flexible Co-Living Conversions Can Support Housing Affordability

Gensler and The Pew Charitable Trusts studied building typologies in nine cities to better understand the potential in this unique...

How Strategic Shifts Can Reignite Employee Engagement
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How Strategic Shifts Can Reignite Employee Engagement

In today’s workplace, employee engagement isn’t just a buzzword — it’s a vital force behind organizational success.

Reimagining Care in the Heart of Our Cities
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Reimagining Care in the Heart of Our Cities

An innovative intergenerational care concept seeks to transform how we support caregivers while revitalizing underutilized commercial spaces.

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
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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...

Designing for Flexibility in Senior Community Amenities
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Designing for Flexibility in Senior Community Amenities

New insights in programming activities for tomorrow’s seniors will lead to the design of flexible, reconfigurable spaces and increased engagement.

Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of Senior Living Design
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Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of Senior Living Design

Gensler’s regional Northwest Senior Living leader discusses new housing models, amenities, and other opportunities shaping the future of senior...

Bringing Spaces to Life: The Integral Role of Service Design in the Design Process
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Bringing Spaces to Life: The Integral Role of Service Design in the Design Process

Service design acts as a bridge that connects the physical design of a space with the user-centric experiences within it.

How AI and Emerging Technologies Will Transform the Future of Labs
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How AI and Emerging Technologies Will Transform the Future of Labs

From AI and machine learning to quantum computing, we explore how technological advancements are redefining how scientists work.

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.

Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of Mobility and Transportation
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Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of Mobility and Transportation

Gensler’s mobility and transportation leaders discuss the biggest trends shaping the industry, from micromobility to electrification.

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...

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 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...

Gensler Voices: Shirin Masoudi on Her Design Inspiration
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Gensler Voices: Shirin Masoudi on Her Design Inspiration

Shirin Masoudi, a designer for Gensler Seattle, shares her unique perspective on design.

How Life Sciences Developments Can Redefine Urban Areas
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How Life Sciences Developments Can Redefine Urban Areas

Sciences R&D developments are migrating to amenitized urban areas, unlocking opportunity for architectural innovation.

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.

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.

Verbal Identity Is Key to More Inclusive Brand Storytelling
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Verbal Identity Is Key to More Inclusive Brand Storytelling

Verbal identity will play an increasingly important role in creating brand expressions that equalize and diversify brand experience for everyone.

Dear Downtown, Let’s Rewrite Our Story
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Dear Downtown, Let’s Rewrite Our Story

How can our cities serve our deepest need — the need for belonging and connection with each other? We have to write a new story.

Embodied Carbon Is Where Tech Must Tighten Its Belt
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Embodied Carbon Is Where Tech Must Tighten Its Belt

As buildings get more efficient and power grids get cleaner, projects are looking to where they can further reduce their carbon footprint to meet...

Magnetizing People & Places Through the Power of Brand
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Magnetizing People & Places Through the Power of Brand

Gensler’s Brand Design and industry leaders delve into a conversation about the power of brand strategy and storytelling.

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.

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.

What Two Leading Edge Venues Reveal About the Future of College Sports
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What Two Leading Edge Venues Reveal About the Future of College Sports

Sports venues must go beyond game day and do more for the team, the campus community, and the general public by identifying year-round use.

U.S. Laboratory Research Scientist Survey 2023
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U.S. Laboratory Research Scientist Survey 2023

As hybrid work, artificial intelligence, and cloud labs become commonplace in the life science industry, how can the design of laboratory settings...

The UnOffice: Workplaces for More Than Productivity
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The UnOffice: Workplaces for More Than Productivity

The next evolution of the workplace should be designed for hybrid work, embracing both productivity and unproductivity.

Trends to Watch: The Evolution of the Sciences Workplace
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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.

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.

Gensler Voices: Jacob Simons on the Power of Community
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Gensler Voices: Jacob Simons on the Power of Community

We sat down with Jacob Simons, Northwest Regional Strategy Practice Leader in our Gensler Seattle office, to discuss the power in leaving a legacy of...

The Internet of Places: How Will Web3 Transform the Built Environment?
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The Internet of Places: How Will Web3 Transform the Built Environment?

See how new tech trends in AI, VR, and Web3 will transform the built environment.

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.

Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of Urban Mobility
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Trends to Watch Shaping the Future of Urban Mobility

Gensler’s research, planning, and transportation experts discuss how residents’ mobility experiences, opinions, and preferences are shaping how...

Building Buzz: Strategies for Energizing the Workplace
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Building Buzz: Strategies for Energizing the Workplace

How do you design for “buzz” in the workplace — that intangible phenomenon that bridges the anticipation of coming into work with the experience once...

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...

To Further Your ESG and Carbon Commitments, Start With Signage
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To Further Your ESG and Carbon Commitments, Start With Signage

When looking for an impactful, actionable, and timely way to support ESG and carbon goals, we suggest starting with a fundamental, yet often...

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...

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...

Residential Experience Index 2022
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Residential Experience Index 2022

Our report uncovers findings from global residents to better understand the most important drivers of positive living experiences and highlights a...

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...

Innovation Districts, Affinity Districts, and the City of the Future
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Innovation Districts, Affinity Districts, and the City of the Future

Here's how innovation is happening at a variety of scales, from affinity districts, to innovation districts, across cities.

The Lab Building of the Future is NEXT
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The Lab Building of the Future is NEXT

The traditional method of designing new science buildings needs to evolve from what the building looks like, to how it needs to be optimized for each...

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...

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...