One of the world’s largest architecture firms says it feels a sense of “optimism and engagement” heading into 2025, driven by cooling inflation, coming rate cuts, and a growing drive among developers to start investing money again.
On Thursday, U.S.-based Gensler unveiled its Design Forecast, which names the trends that it expects to shape design in the coming year. These trends include a focus on how design needs to adapt to changes in city life—the continued shift to work-from-home, the resulting hit to downtowns and shopping districts, and increasingly unaffordable housing.
