Subscribe and listen to Gensler Design Exchange on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher — or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Listen to our previous “Women in Architecture and Design” episode from 2022 here. In 1958, only 1 percent of registered architects were women. By 1988 that number had risen to…

Subscribe and listen to Gensler Design Exchange on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher — or anywhere you listen to podcasts. As shapers of the physical world, architects and designers have direct impacts on the areas in which they design and build. These impacts result in outcomes that extend to social…

Subscribe to Gensler Design Exchange on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher — or anywhere you listen to podcasts. In 2022, the world’s tallest hybrid mass timber structure was completed. Ascent is a 25-story luxury apartment building, with 19 stories and 273,000 square feet of mass timber providing 260 residential units…

It’s no secret that the way we work has changed radically. What started as a seemingly brief precaution to work at home three years ago has become a global workplace shift. Even before the pandemic, Gensler had entire teams dedicated to consulting with clients to help guide them through…

Nearly 30% of Washington, D.C.’s total land area is owned by the Federal Government. In times of economic turmoil, this enormous, city-wide footprint of long-term leases has helped D.C. remain resilient in terms of holding rent and vacancy rates steady. But like nearly every other sector, the COVID-19 pandemic…

School is in session! The United States is on the precipice a shift in how, and where, education is delivered. K-12 schools in the U.S. are beginning to take inspiration from international education systems, reimagining the traditional design of a school and its curriculum. Foust K-12 Gaming and Robotics…

Wood has been used to build structures for millennia. But after disasters like the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, wood was seen as an unsafe building material when compared to concrete or steel. Advances in the technology of large-scale wood construction material (mass timber), coupled with the global need…

Organizations worldwide have had to make complicated decisions regarding the physical workplace for their employees because of Covid-19. Pivots are expected, if not necessary. And there is no instruction manual. Well-being lies at the heart of the mission at Humana, a global health insurance company. The organization has used…

Subscribe and listen to Gensler Design Exchange on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher — or anywhere you listen to podcasts. The office has always been at the heart of the workplace ecosystem, but it has been forever changed by Covid-19. After more than two years of working remotely and in…