What They’re Specifying: D.B. Kim
The noted hospitality designer selects colors, textures, and forms that inspire timeless comfort and peace.
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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.
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.
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
A Quiet Revolution: The Origins of Sustainable Design in the United States
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Changing a Company's Status Quo Through Workplace Design
At a recent Metropolis Think Tank talk hosted by the Atlanta office of Gensler, architects and experts discussed how sensitive disruption can increase productivity.
Gensler Creates a Showcase of Sustainable Design Near Shanghai
Johnson Controls' 378,000-square-foot Asia Pacific Headquarters aims to be a new symbol of China’s environmental coming-of-age.
How Gensler Updated the Inimitable Ford Foundation Headquarters
The 415,000-square-foot, $200-million renovation was prompted by code violations, but the subsequent update also honored its architects' original designs.
Life After the Death of the Office: Avoiding Ubiquitous Workplace Design in a Tired Market
Thanks to cloud computing and Skype, there’s less need for a physical office, but the urge to transmit corporate culture and values persist.
Will the Culture of Good Taste Devour McDonald’s?
Two new sparkling buildings in Chicago—designed by Carol Ross Barney and Gensler, respectively—demonstrate a new design direction for the ubiquitous fast-food chain.
Experience Design Is Essential for Cities to Thrive in the 21st Century
Metropolis’s director of design innovation, Susan Szenasy, led a panel at the Gensler-designed 500 West 2nd Street tower examining how certain experiences (both physical and digital) now drive urban design.
At SFO, a 1960s Airplane Hangar Conceals a Working Design Office
Big Room, a temporary workplace constructed inside an airplane hangar, brings teams together by leaning into scrappy solutions and a sense of fun.
L.A.'s Academy Museum Will Be a 'Flying Vessel' According to Renzo Piano
The bombastic new temple for film history, set to open next year, will be a cinematic experience in itself, says Piano.
Design Can Step in Where the American Health Care System Falls Short
At Metropolis's Washington D.C. Think Tank in December, hosted by Gensler, panelists—ranging from architects to a politician—discussed how to design for a healthier America.
Gensler's Carlos Martínez On the Importance of Designing Workplace "Beta Spaces"
Martínez, a consumer-goods practice-area leader at Gensler, chats with Metropolis editor-in-chief, Avinash Rajagopal, about not being afraid to experiment in office design.
