Bill Hooper 
The “Fight Deck” at SFO Terminal 3, Boarding Area E, developed by Gensler in partnership with Razorfish. Image © Joe Fletcher.
This post is part of a series related to the 2016 Gensler Design Forecast, highlighting trends that will transform how we live, work and play in the next decade.
Image © Gensler
On November 19th, 2015, the Denver International Airport (DIA) Westin Hotel & Transit Center will open to guests. Not only will it embody an entirely new type of travel experience, the design also represents a great story of collaboration. We’ve had the honor of working on this project from the start, and along the way we’ve adjusted to many shifts in team and budget as we designed and created the project. Here is the story of that collaboration and its evolution.
The new pop-up garden at the London Underground's Barbican station. Image © Gensler
Every day we Londoners make our way through the urban jungle. Our daily routines bring us together with strangers and friends alike and together we endure some of the more dire spaces that our modern metropolis produces. And yet we discover opportunities in the strangest places to improve our urban environment and perhaps put a smile on the faces of our fellow urbanites.
Ian Mulcahey 
Gensler's London Underline won Best Conceptual Project at the 2015 London Planning Awards. Image © Gensler
As highlighted in the Monday edition of the London Evening Standard, London has now reached the highest level of population in its 2,000 year history. This means the city has reached uncharted territory, and the government and development community are for the first time in over 70 years faced with the prospect of planning for real growth. With the population now growing at a rate of 2,000 people per week, London’s GDP growth hovering at 4%, and the city now considered the number one global visitor destination, London could quickly become a victim of its own success.
Brent Mather 
The new front door for the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport. Image © Gensler
The problem with the buzz these days about airport cities is that for many people an airport city can be nothing more than an office park built out near the terminal. But without a physical and emotional connection to the city center, the airport remains remote, and the development that sprang up at its door is isolated. That brand of airport city doesn’t have the wings to spur the kind of progressive growth and development that can change a metropolis and in the case of Denver, give a city its rightful urbanism.
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