With 6,000+ employees worldwide, Gensler works with clients in over 100 countries each year.
Gensler's L.A. office
Gensler L.A. office moved from Santa Monica to a highly visible area of downtown Los Angeles in 2012. At the time, the need of the office was desks for their employees, parking and to facilitate future growth.
Flanked by two towers, the lower middle section is where the new office was inserted. They opened a new operable skylight to cap the central atrium and hung a mezzanine in order to break up the grandness of the space in order for the guests and clients to feel invited.
From the central atrium, meeting rooms stack and cantilever around it, with different cladding materials such as glass, zinc and white polycarbonate, creating a vibrant energy around the atrium.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Medical Center
Serving as the executive architect, Gensler New York collaborated with Diller and Scofidio + Renfro to create a state of the art facility for Columbia University's medical and graduate students consisting of classrooms, a large lecture hall, critical technical spaces, anatomy labs and simulation centers.
The facade plays a dual role where it screens the multi-story open plans which glows at night to serve as a beacon for the campus. Rather than a conventional horizontal plan, they created a vertically stacked plan which is interconnected inside.
The Alexander
Buckingham Companies hired Gensler's Houston office to design a hotel that would redefine the cultural landscape of Indianapolis. The hotel teamed up with the Indianapolis Museum of Art to help them create a curated collection of art to be displayed throughout the hotel.
The challenge for Gensler was to create spaces for the best art view within a space while furnishing both the public and private rooms of the hotel in a manner that would compliment the art. The design team chose subdued and natural color palette with a balance of natural and artificial light to showcase the work.
Santikos Embassy Theater
Set in the historic Santikos Embassy Theater, the client wanted to bring back the environment of the glory days of cinema. The design team was able to reinterpret the ambiance, the mood and the feelings of the bygone era in the public spaces such as the lobby by replicating the original theater design from the early 1900's.
This resulted in an overall palette and textures of dark and deep yet desaturated colors with plush and comfortable seating that feels like a lounge. Even the concession area evokes the glorious era by highly finished materials. Adorning the walls are movie memorabilia from classic blockbusters from the bygone days.
84.51 Centre
Renovated from an old parking garage and in an infill condition, this 9 story mixed use office building houses four levels of offices, retail space at street level and parking space, both underground and aboveground.
Out of all these spaces however, the design team believed that the congregational space should be the most celebratory and should be located around the atrium where daylighting can infiltrate these spaces as much as possible. The materials stayed true to the city's industrial roots, as well as what was existing on site such as concrete, steel, oak, and also celebrating Cincinnati's brewing history by using the pressed-tin ceiling tile in their lounge.
Hyundai Card Music Library + Understage
This music center where Hyundai Card members can come and enjoy consists of a concert hall, an artist's lounge with practice studios, an open performance plaza, a cafe, and a music library that holds 10,000 hand-picked vinyl records and 3,000 books from the 1950's to present day.
Reflecting the industrial characteristic of music making, the overall environment was inspired by the music counterculture of the 60's and 70's by using raw and industrial materials such as brass, neon and painted metal mesh, chalk murals with famous musician quotes and billboard-sized murals by renowned street artists such as JR and VHILS. Wayfinding and graphics were also carefully thought out to reflect the character such as distressed typography.