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For Gensler’s Scott Star, the Specifier’s Viewpoint is Gold

The global leader of Gensler’s product development practice explains why a specifier’s perspective is valuable for manufacturers of the next hot product.
Viewpoints

Can the Tech Industry Learn to Be a Good Neighbor?

In Culver City, California, a tech boom has reshaped the urban fabric, and not everyone is happy about it.
Projects

Cultivating “A Certain Warmth” Inside 550 Madison, One of Manhattan’s Quirkiest Towers

Snøhetta’s garden completes a softening and repositioning of Philip Johnson’s 550 Madison, formerly the AT&T Building.
Programs

Redefining the Experience-Driven Workplace

Three Gensler designers weigh in on whether the workplace as we know it has a future.
Programs

Understanding the Whole Life Impact of Buildings and Interiors

A Perspective: Sustainability panel discussed the carbon (and human) impacts of renovation and construction.
Viewpoints

A Pandemic-Conscious Blueprint for Architecture

How uniform standards applied across the built environment can protect our communities from COVID-19 and future pandemics
Programs

Designing for Health and Wellness in Atlanta

A recent Think Tank panel explored how the pandemic has underscored the need to design for purpose and wellbeing.
Viewpoints

How Blockchain Technology Could Transform Sustainability

Gensler principal Kirsten Ritchie shares her views on why this trendy tech may help crack the code on environment-friendly buildings.
Viewpoints

Gurus at Five Firms Predict the Good Ways Disruptive Technology Will Change Design

Pros from Gensler, SOM, SmithGroup, Arup, and IA Interior Architects share their views on what practice looks like with the new tools.
Projects

At Dallas’s Hall of State, a Return to Majesty

The Texas Art Deco gem was fastidiously restored by Gensler, which preserved ample Lone Star symbolism and winks from the original architect.
Products

What They’re Specifying: D.B. Kim

The noted hospitality designer selects colors, textures, and forms that inspire timeless comfort and peace.
Projects

Ford Unveils Details of its Plans for Detroit’s Corktown

Practice for Architecture and Urbanism and Gensler envision how the Michigan Central mobility innovation district will embrace the past and provide future opportunities for Detroit’s communities.
Viewpoints

Are Our COVID-19 Responses Missing the Big Picture?

We must keep the climate costs of our post-COVID workplaces in mind as we plan for a new normal, writes Gensler’s director of sustainable design practice.
Viewpoints

Rethinking and Planning for the New Restaurant Experience

Architecture and design firms offer both immediate solutions and long-term frameworks for restaurants operating in a COVID-19-impacted world
Viewpoints

A Quiet Revolution: The Origins of Sustainable Design in the U.S.

On the 30th anniversary of the AIA Committee on the Environment, it is time to reflect on the pioneers who took up the cause of sustainability (Metropolis among them) when few others would.
Projects

At Columbia College Chicago, Gensler Turns the Atrium Building Inside Out

The college's new student center reimagines the typically strict delineation between spaces that exist on urban campuses.
Events

Finding a Line of Best Fit for a Future-Proof Workplace

At a recent event at Haworth's New York showroom, panelists discussed how designers can optimize office spaces in order to keep up with technological shifts.
Projects

25 Kent Mirrors Williamsburg’s Aesthetics, Entrepreneurialism, and Rapid Change

Designed by Hollwich Kushner, the new mixed-use development is a sensitive addition to North Brooklyn’s glitzy, booming waterfront.
Projects

NOMA-Nominated: Banc of California Stadium by Gensler Los Angeles

Barbara Bouza, co-managing director of Gensler’s Los Angeles office, explains how her firm’s project served the local community as well as the city at large.
Projects

In Atlanta, Gensler Designs One Workplace for Three Different Companies

The firm recently completed an adaptive-reuse project in Stockyards Atlanta to colocate advertising giant IPG’s sister agencies Fitzco, Weber Shandwick, and Momentum.