Community Review
A powerful sense of civic responsibility—rooted in the values of our staff and strongly supported by the Gensler culture—finds many outlets for giving back to the cities and regions where we live.
Next Generation Bolstered By Gensler's Talent Development Program
We support our profession by encouraging architecture students who show great promise. This year, Gensler awarded its second annual Diversity Scholarship to Asia Dixon of the University of Tennessee, while George Washington University interior design student Stephen Ramos won the firm's 2010 Brinkmann Scholarship competition. These two scholarship winners were joined across the firm by a class of interns representing more than 45 schools from around the world. Since 2000, Gensler has hosted more than 1,000 internships.
Global Review
From San Francisco to our newest locations, Bangalore and São Paulo, we take pride in the 35 cities we call home. Yet, becoming a global firm has never been Gensler's sole objective; rather it's the outcome of maintaining a resilient focus on delivering design services that enhance clients' operations wherever they base them.
Gensler Organizes Shanghai Forum On The Shape Of Tomorrow's Cities
More than half the world's population now resides in cities, and demographic studies purport that urban expansion will continue for another two decades. With "Metropolitan Landscape 2030," Gensler organized the event with host Tongji University, in Shanghai, and invited urban planners and government officials from three cities—London, San Francisco, and Shanghai—to explore how issues of growth, transportation, environment, and quality of life are shaping their city's development. The symposium was the first in a series, with plans for a future gathering at the University of California, Berkeley. The series premise is that regions facing similar urban development issues stand to benefit from sharing their experiences addressing the connections between the urban core, urban edge, and suburbs.
Design + Performance Review
By incorporating knowledge gained through staff-driven research, implementing best practices in sustainable design, and integrating technology into project delivery, Gensler is at the forefront of the profession. Engineering News-Record took note by ranking Gensler the top green architecture firm. We have designed 62 million square feet of LEED-registered or certified projects representing $16 billion in construction value. We also set new standards of building performance at the Milwaukee-area corporate headquarters of Johnson Controls, Inc.— the world's largest concentration of LEED Platinum buildings. With its highperformance skin, enhanced daylighting, and the largest solar array in the state, the renovated campus is a leading model of sustainable development.
