Gensler Endows 8 Offices with Serious Wow Factor
endows eight offices with serious wow factor. Gensler
1. Firm: Gensler Chicago
Project: Crain Communications
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Standout: A century’s worth of headlines—none repeating—from Crain Communications publications bedeck walls on four floors of the company’s Chicago office.
2. Firm: Gensler Chicago
Project: CBRE
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Standout: At CBRE in Chicago, magnetized snapshots of staffers backlit within a wooden frame introduce visitors to the team.
3. Firm: Gensler New York
Project: Capital One
Location: New York, New York
Standout: Some 2,500 spheres twinkle above a titanium-and-steel sculpture that swoops up and over lobby seating vignettes at Capital One in New York.
4. Firm: Gensler Los Angeles
Project: Vistamar School
Location: Los Angeles, California
Standout: CNC-cut plywood panels interlock to create an undulating grid canopy in the former Xerox warehouse, now part of Vistamar School in Los Angeles.
5. Firm: Gensler Dallas
Project: Turner Construction Company
Location: Dallas, Texas
Standout: In Dallas, cast concrete letter-forms and an alder-clad wall at Turner Construction Company showcase the industry’s robust materiality.
6. Firm: Gensler San Francisco
Project: Visa
Location: San Francisco, California
Standout: An artful bevy of credit cards, some painted or chromed, mingle with LEDs of the same size at Visa in San Francisco.
7. Firm: Gensler Dallas
Project: Hilti
Location: Dallas, Texas
Standout: In Plano, Texas, the Hilti logo peeks through a wall of powder-coated-aluminum “saws,” fascimiles of the manufacturer’s own steel product.
8. Firm: Gensler Tokyo
Project: Yanmar
Location: Osaka, Japan
Standout: A steel staircase painted the company’s signature chili red spirals through eight floors at Yanmar in Osaka, Japan.