Professional Services
We partner with professional services firms to transform offices into inspiring magnets for professionals and clients. We help management advisory and legal firms implement immersive, tailored workplace experiences that promote flexibility, productivity, shared purpose, and collaboration.
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The future of design for professional services firms will be defined by new technologies, the amenities and workspaces that attract and retain top talent, and how the workplace demonstrates social impact and sustainability bona fides.
—Timothy Bromiley, Professional Services leader
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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Houston
Houston, Texas
Chamberlain Hrdlicka enlisted Gensler to renovate its downtown Houston office into a more modern and welcoming environment for its employees and clients.
NIKA Technologies, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas
NIKA Technologies’ new San Antonio office creates a fun environment while maintaining a professional setting dedicated to servicing government agencies.
Gensler Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Gensler Atlanta’s new office celebrates the city and the future of our firm in a creative nest that reflects the preferences and creative ethos of our people.
Kaufman Rossin – Miami Office Interiors
Miami, Florida
Empowered by Kaufman Rossin’s mission to be a people-first business focused on numbers, the workspace plan offers a high level of flexibility.
Accenture Chicago Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Innovation Hub at Accenture Tower is an iconic building and transportation hub that serves as a new workplace model to redefine the future of work.
Confidential Law Firm
Los Angeles and Century City, California
Gensler worked with a prominent Los Angeles-based AM Law Firm to simultaneously design two new workplaces in both Downtown LA and Century City.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell
Toronto, Ontario
Cassels Brock & Blackwell is a future-focused hybrid legal workplace that prioritizes flexibility via unassigned seating, employee well-being, and inclusivity.
Loffler Companies
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
With Gensler, the Loffler Headquarters successfully transformed a purpose-built static retail machine into a vibrant and flexible workplace home.
DivcoWest
Cambridge, Massachusetts
DivcoWest’s hospitality-driven hybrid workplace and marketing suite in Cambridge solidifies the Boston presence of this San Francisco-based real estate firm.
22 Bayard
Paris, France
Gensler reimagined the interior design of a historical building in Paris with a juxtaposing timber extension.
Walker & Dunlop Bethesda Headquarters
Bethesda, Maryland
Walker & Dunlop partnered with Gensler on its workplace interiors and brand design to create a new home for its growing workforce.
Confidential Global Law Firm
Washington, D.C.
To redesign this global law firm’s workplace, Gensler set out to infuse the space with a hospitality ambiance and special attention to the office experience.
CoStar Irvine
Irvine, California
Gensler D.C. partnered with global real estate information and online marketplaces company, CoStar Group, to design workplace interiors for its Irvine office.
Global Law Firm Office Renovation
Tokyo, Japan
Following an office renovation, this law firm’s new workplace embodies the new work concept, encourages collaboration, and reinforces its DE&I values.
Confidential Consulting Firm
New York, New York
The U.S. headquarters for this leading consulting firm models a new approach to an immersive workplace that blurs the line between client space and workspace.
Professional Services Client
Melbourne, Australia
The client-facing floors of this space are reimagined to deliver a unique client experience, welcoming guests in a boutique, hospitality-inspired environment.
Gensler Seattle Office Redesign
Seattle, Washington
The redesigned Gensler Seattle office features a new office concept centered around a Workshop – a non-precious, scrappy space to experiment, connect, and share
ADP
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
ADP sought to incorporate innovative workplace solutions to create a truly international space that reflects local perspectives at its Hyderabad campus.
CBRE Beijing Office
Beijing, China
In designing CBRE’s new headquarters in Beijing, the Gensler team sought to highlight the commercial real estate firm’s flexible office strategy while also integrating the design with Beijing’s cultural heritage.
IAT Insurance
Raleigh, North Carolina
The experience of both visitors and employees was a key factor in the design of IAT Insurance’s new headquarters in Raleigh.
AvalonBay Headquarters
Arlington, Virginia
The design of the new AvalonBay headquarters in Arlington, Virginia connects its philosophy, which puts its people and residents first, with an ever-evolving real estate market.
Baker Botts San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Given the growth of Baker Botts in the San Francisco market, Gensler transformed the law firm’s office into a space that better reflects its brand and culture.
Akin Gump Houston
Houston, Texas
Akin Gump enlisted Gensler to refresh its office design, originally completed in 2004, in order to reflect modern workplace trends centered on themes of wellness and fitness.
Mintz Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Mintz’s clear intention for its new office to be “unassuming” guided the entire interior design process, which culminated in a modern work environment that precisely strikes the right tone for its attorneys and clients.
JLL Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina
JLL Carolinas’ new office at Legacy Union brings together over 150 employees and reflects the commercial real estate company’s culture and values in a high-performing, employee-focused workspace.
No. 4 — Gensler Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Gensler relocated its Birmingham office to 4 St Philip’s Place, in the heart of the city’s central business district, allowing the architecture, design, and planning studio to expand after more than doubling in size.
Waddell Serafino Dallas
Dallas, Texas
In creating the bespoke environment of an international law firm, Waddell Serafino’s Dallas workplace design appeals both to a diverse clientele base as well as seasoned and rising generations of attorneys.
INSIGHTS
Blog
2024: The Year of the Intentional Workplace
Here are three strategies for leveraging your brand to tame workplace uncertainty.
Blog
How Tomorrow’s Workforce Will Shape Future Workplace Design
By taking cues from higher education and integrating insights into workplace design, we can create spaces that attract talent and empower tomorrow’s workforce to succeed.
Blog
What About Wednesdays? Planning for the Busiest Day of the Week in the New Hybrid Office.
Learn how organizations can prepare and plan for the busiest day in the hybrid workplace.
Blog
What Young Associates Want From Modern Law Firms
The legal workplace plays a critical role in retention. Now, more than ever, it must deliver an experience.
Blog
How the Future of Work Is Influencing Workplace Design
While workplace design changes incrementally, the past few years radically transformed our expectations of an office and how we can design for what’s possible.
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Gensler’s New San Francisco Office: A Prototype for the Future of Work
Gensler’s new San Francisco office is a living lab for sustainability and innovation, designed to support new ways of working.
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10 Workplace Trends for 2024: What’s In and What’s Out?
To evolve with changing demands and earn people’s commutes, the workplace will undergo key shifts. Here are 10 emerging workplace trends to watch in 2024.
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Open or Private? It’s Time for a New Workplace Model.
The debate of open versus private workspace has resurfaced. But today we work differently, it’s time for a new workplace model.
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Rethinking Law Firm Workplaces in the Age of Hybrid Work
The law office of the future will be a place where lawyers will learn to work differently, supported by innovative design and technology.
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10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Hybrid World
Here are 10 considerations, tools, and methodologies for creating a better workplace experience and attracting people back to the office in a hybrid world.
Blog
As New Work Patterns Emerge, the Workplace Must Respond
Gensler’s exploratory survey of office workers in six U.S. cities aims to better understand how emerging factors impact how and why employees use the office.
Blog
The Law Firm of the Future: Can a Workplace be Restorative?
Over the past year, we've taken a deep dive into the measurable impacts facing professional service firms and how these impacts are affecting the current legal workplace.
Blog
People Have Choice in the Workplace, But Not the Choices They Need
Providing greater choice in where to work within the work environment doesn’t just enhance the workplace experience; it can lead to better business performance.
Blog
Designing Empathetic Workplaces Can Be a Key Differentiator
Empathy is a required trait of healthy workplaces and communities, and a key differentiator.
Blog
Evolution of the Legal Workplace
To bring people back to the office, law firms and other high-performing companies need to intentionally plan their workplaces for collaboration, productivity, and culture.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DESIGN TRENDS TO WATCH
Focus spaces and drop-in desks help define the hybrid law office.
Hybrid work arrangements mean firms are trading closed offices and assigned seating for focus spaces and drop-in desks — freeing up square footage for richer amenities and additional collaborative spaces with upgraded A/V technology that make the office a productive space for hybrid work and a cultural hub worth traveling for.
Firms are putting their sustainability credentials on display.
Sustainability is a key differentiator for potential talent, clients, and investors. As firms try to lessen their environmental impact, many are demonstrating their commitment to environmental sustainability by reducing their carbon and physical footprint, pursuing LEED, BREEAM, and other certifications, and designing the professional services workplace to enable resource efficiency.
Design for culture and inclusion will stimulate workplace collaboration.
Culture is key to attracting and retaining talent. The physical workplace is essential in defining and sharing a firm’s culture with employees and clients. Offices should enable interaction and support connection and mentoring, while creating a sense of belonging for all employees. Creating human-centric workplaces that inspire purpose and demonstrate organizational values will help firms stand out to potential talent and clients alike.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LEADERSHIP
Timothy Bromiley
Professional Services Leader, Studio Director, Principal
Many of the world’s largest and most influential law firms and other professional services clients call upon Tim’s expertise. He uses research combined with a keen understanding...
Carlos Posada
Professional Services Leader, Principal
Carlos is a global leader in Gensler’s Professional Services practice and a Principal, who has partnered for over 30 years with corporate clients to deliver innovative workplace...
NEWS
In The Media
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WorkLife
WorkLife’s 5 Things To Know Newsletter Featured Gensler’s New San Francisco Office
Gensler Principal Kelly Dubisar explained how “the power of place has an influence on people’s behavior in being able to bring people together and to think outside of your normal being.”
February 15, 2024
In The Media
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Wallpaper
Francis House, Edelman’s Gensler-Designed Office in London, Combines Flexibility, Colour, Warmth, and Rawness
Wallpaper spotlighted Edelman’s new workplace inside a reinvented 1900s warehouse that befits the 21st century. Gensler’s Carlos Posada called it “the destination that embodies all the attributes of a workplace of the future.”
February 08, 2024
In The Media
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Work Design Magazine
Gensler’s Design of Korn Ferry’s New Paris Office Integrates Public and Private Spaces
The consulting firm’s new office implements unassigned seating for the first time and creates a dynamic environment in harmony with nature and workers’ needs.
January 23, 2024
In The Media
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Bloomberg
Three Office Design Predictions for 2024, According to Gensler’s Design Forecast
Gensler Principal Natalie Engels explained why companies are focusing more on the well-being of the teams and individuals and detailed Gensler’s recent project work across industries.
December 19, 2023
In The Media
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Interior Design
Boston Consulting Group Headquarters Wins Interior Design’s 2023 Best of Year Award
Interior Design recognized Gensler’s design of Boston Consulting Group Headquarters in Washington, D.C. as a winner of the 2023 Best of Year Awards.
December 13, 2023
In The Media
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Law.com
Rethinking Law Firm Workplaces in the Age of Hybrid Work
Gensler Professional Services Leader Carlos Posado shared insights on law firms embracing hybrid working and why creating places that people want to work in is more important than ever.
November 23, 2023
In The Media
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Inc.com
What Leaders Should Consider As They Redesign Their Offices for the New Era of Work
Inc.com interviewed Workplace Research Director Janet Pogue McLaurin about considerations for the future of office design, including dividing the workplace into “neighborhoods” to support different types of work.
November 09, 2023
In The Media
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WorkLife
Here’s What Matters for Optimizing Office Spaces for Today’s Needs
Janet Pogue McLaurin explains why spaces for individual work, for creative group work, and areas to reflect and restore are key for the office of today.
November 09, 2023
In The Media
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Office Lovin’
A Look Inside Cassels’ New Toronto Office, Designed by Gensler
The legal workspace “seamlessly blends functionality, aesthetics, and advanced technology” to enhance employee well-being and improve the client experience.
September 07, 2023
In The Media
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Commercial Observer
How One Manhattan Firm’s Office Reflects Big Changes in the Legal Industry
Gensler Principal Timothy Bromiley discusses design trends that are shaping the future of law firm workplaces.
November 22, 2022
In The Media
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Bloomberg
How Companies Are Reimagining Spaces to Support More Social Interaction Among Colleagues
Gensler co-CEO Diane Hoskins explains why organizations are prioritizing amenities that support social interaction — like Wi-Fi-enabled terraces, coffee bars, and pool tables.
October 25, 2022
In The Media
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The Texas Lawbook
A Behind the Scenes Look at Akin Gump’s Houston Office Renovation by Gensler
Gensler’s Kenneth Wiesehuegeld explained how the firm is “at the forefront of designing for wellness” in its refreshed workspace.
August 18, 2022
In The Media
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WorkLife
Hybrid Offices Are Shifting Towards the “Neighborhood” Office Model
Gensler’s Kelly Dubisar explains why companies are moving towards neighborhoods of seating in the office and being able to “choose your own adventure” when it comes to furniture settings.
July 15, 2022
In The Media
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Canadian Lawyers
Gensler Toronto Design Director Matthew Kobylar Discusses The Post-Pandemic Law Firm
Cassels’ new Toronto law firm office, designed by Gensler, will maximize client and wellness space and feature a client lounge “that will make clients feel like they are in a five-star hotel.”
June 21, 2022
In The Media
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Legal Mag
Freshfields’ New Law Firm Office Promotes Comfort and "Indoor-Outdoor Working”
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s new Gensler-designed office in Silicon Valley focuses on comfort to create a place that lawyers and clients want to come to.
June 19, 2022