The London office of Gensler, a US-founded global architecture and design firm, which has been Gensler's European headquarters for over 30 years.
Gensler London is the firm's European headquarters, and Gensler's own page says it has proudly called London home for over 30 years. The office provides architecture, interior design and consulting across the UK and Europe. It works on urban regeneration, workplace design, office-to-residential conversions and adaptive reuse, and across sectors including financial services, professional services, technology, life sciences, retail, hospitality and sport. UK projects named on the page include 10 Gresham Street, the Francis Crick Institute project at 20 Triton Street, Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, ONE Station Hill in Reading, The Goodsyard in Shoreditch and the L'Oreal Gateway London HQ.
Gensler was founded in San Francisco in 1965 by Art Gensler, his wife Drue Gensler and James Follett, beginning with corporate interiors. Its first overseas office was London, opened in 1988. The firm describes its London priorities as innovative, sustainable, human-centric design. Across the firm, Wikipedia reports a Paris Pledge signed at COP21 in 2015, the Gensler Cities Climate Challenge launched in 2019, and a Community Impact programme (gServe, from 2007) that asks offices to focus on housing, health and wellness, the environment and the next generation.
The London office is at Moretown (formerly Thomas More Square), London E1W 1YW, near Wapping. The page does not state its headcount or floor area. Firm-wide, Wikipedia gives about 6,000 employees and 57 offices (53 cities across 17 countries by late 2023), so the London studio is part of a very large network. Its UK projects stretch to Cambridge, Reading, Birmingham and Essex as well as London.
On culture, the London page calls the office a "design powerhouse" that works "with the best talent" on complex challenges, but gives no more about everyday working life. The firm-wide pages say it runs Gensler University (leadership development, since 1990), a Diversity Scholarship for African-American architecture students and the Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship Fund. Wikipedia lists it as employee-owned, ranking 21st on the 2020 NCEO Employee Ownership 100 in the US. These are firm-wide, US-sourced facts, not UK-specific.
Roles in a studio like this include architects and architectural assistants, interior designers, urban designers, brand and digital experience designers, sustainability and research specialists, consultants and project managers. Because Gensler has teams that cover workplace strategy, retail and hospitality, it suits people who like both buildings and the way people use them. Check Gensler's website for current London vacancies.
Website: www.gensler.com/offices/london
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