Recreating the Oval Office at the George W. Bush Presidential Center
Judy Pesek 
Photo courtesy of Rena Hardeman.
Designers aren’t typically excited about the opportunity to replicate spaces. But when former first lady Laura Bush asked Gensler to replicate the Oval Office within the new George W. Bush Presidential Center, we were thrilled.
Campus Design and the Urban Interface
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Last December, as part of Gensler’s firmwide Education Practice Area Next Gen Initiative, the London office, where I work, considered all the ways that education campuses interact with their immediate surroundings. We call this the Urban Interface.
A New Airport for India’s New Gateway: Gensler’s Design for Chennai International
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Q&A with Gensler’s Kashyap Bhimjiani, a senior designer for Chennai International airport’s new terminals.
India’s third-busiest airport, Chennai International is the gateway to country’s southern region.
The Case for Flipping the Terminal
Memphis International Airport in the early 1970s. Photo courtesy of Ed Uthman/Wikimedia Commons
In the very early days of commercial aviation, designers used train stations as inspiration for airport terminals. But the unique demands of the industry eventually led to a departure from the train station template. Individual hold rooms distributed along concourses replaced marshalling passengers from large, central waiting rooms as the norm. This increased the horizontal spread of the facility which, at larger airports, led to the adoption of various mechanical means of conveyance to shorten the travel times and distances for passengers. These systems de-coupled the adjacency demands of aircraft boarding from those of ticketing and baggage claim with resulting impacts on terminal design. This, more than any other factor, has influenced the horizontal layout of the terminal building. But what about the vertical?
Librii: Five Points Toward an Evolving Library
David Dewane 
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One billion people live in Africa, but less than three percent of the population has access to broadband Internet.
