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Avoiding Fear-Based Decision-Making to Foster Positive In-Store Retail Experiences
How deliberate design decisions can boost brand recognition and connect with customers.
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Toronto’s New Deal Highlights the Importance of Healthy Cities
Here are three areas Toronto can focus on to bring people downtown, improve accessibility, and provide a better central business district experience...
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Designing a New Future of Cities Through Wellness and Experience Design
How cities can take an active role in fostering healthier, more fulfilling urban lives for residents and visitors.
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Design Guidelines: The Most Powerful Tool in Your Real Estate Toolkit
Understanding a valuable tool that organizations can deploy to facilitate change in their real estate portfolio.
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Is Belonging the New Currency for Workplace Design?
By prioritizing belonging, we can create more impactful and transformative spaces that mitigate loneliness, foster connection, and drive value for...
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Biodiversity as the New Frontier for Achieving Resilience in Real Estate
The biodiversity crisis is a fundamental challenge that impacts life, the global economy, and the real estate industry.
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The New Experiential Hybrid
The New Hybrid experience brings together the robust attributes of commerce, culture, and leisure, and recalibrates the urban experience.
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The Evolving Role of Hotels in Retail-Driven Mixed-Use Environments
Hotels within mixed use developments are becoming curated retail destinations and dynamic contributors to a vibrant urban experience.
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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.
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Why Quality in Commercial Office Space Hinges on Workplace Experience
Demand is surging for premium office environments that deliver an effective workplace and a great work experience.
SUSTAINABILITY
Climate Action Through Design
Our Climate Action Through Design Report presents solutions for transforming the built environment to achieve a net zero carbon impact across our...
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.
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Workplace as a Service: A Thought Experiment in Office Evolution
The concept of Workplace as a Service challenges traditional notions about work environments. Will this new design perspective help the office remain...
INSIGHT
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.
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How Immersive Food and Beverage Experiences Are Redefining Hospitality
Food and beverage spaces have unique potential as experiential destinations that authentically convene community in a way that is familiar...
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10 Workplace Trends for 2025: What’s In and What’s Out?
The workplace is evolving beyond a collection of experiences and becoming a space designed to foster intentional transformations.
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The Shift to Extremes: Rethinking Office Design
Modern offices are increasingly designed with extremes in mind, featuring specialized spaces for both hyper-focus and hyper-collaboration.
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Creating Inclusive Spaces by Designing for Neurodiversity
Designing for neurodiversity is an essential evolution in our drive to craft inclusive environments that support productivity, well-being, and...
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Prototyping the Hospital of the Future
By prioritizing critical care, streamlining support services, and designing for long-term adaptability, hospitals can create a more sustainable...
RESEARCH
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...
RESEARCH
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...
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Conversions+
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by Gensler Turns Stranded Offices Into Valuable Real Estate
Our conversion algorithm and services help developers quickly determine if buildings are viable for conversion to residential, hotel, senior living...
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What We’ve Learned by Assessing More Than 1,300 Potential Office-to-Residential Conversions
We’ve developed a process for evaluating existing office buildings to determine if they are candidates for multifamily residential conversions.
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Global Workplace Comparison & The Opportunity for Canadian Workplaces
Gensler Toronto and Vancouver leaders unveil the gaps and opportunities in the Canadian office market, based on findings from the Global Workplace...
PODCAST
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.
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The Future of Work in Canada: Insights From Gensler’s Global Workplace Survey
Gensler’s latest global workplace survey reveals that Canadian offices are ripe for post-pandemic reinvention.
WEBINAR
What Workers Want: Findings from the Canada Workplace Survey
Gensler’s leaders offer guidance on the future of work in Canada, based on findings from the latest Canada Workplace Survey exploring what workers...
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What Gensler’s Canadian Workplace Survey Reveals About the New Priorities for Office Design
Gensler's Canada Workplace Survey 2022 survey finds that the office will remain a critical part of the work ecosystem, but there are some challenges.
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Unlocking Hidden Value: How Cities and Developers Are Partnering to Turn Vacant Offices into Residential
Vacant office spaces are a burden for cities and developers. Here’s how to convert vacant office buildings into new housing.
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How Can Companies Leverage the Sublease Market to Gain Access to Prime Office Space in Downtown Toronto?
With companies reevaluating how to meaningfully reengage with the workplace, many enticing opportunities are appearing on the sublease market in the...
RESEARCH
Canada Workplace Survey 2022
We surveyed Canadian office workers to understand their preferred mix of experiences in the office to get work done.
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Shopping Malls Are Dying — Here's How to Bring Them Back to Life
Malls are not necessarily dead; what’s changing is the expectation of what they should or could be.
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The Benefits of Converting Class C Office Into First Class Residential
In order to future-proof older buildings, clients need to make buildings more energy efficient, more resilient, and more vibrant to attract and...