WORK SPACE
Gensler creates an open, interactive
DC office with the future in mind
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n a sea of corporate office buildings in downtown DC, 2020
K Street, NW, stands out—a glass-walled office that is so
state-of-the-art, curious pedestrians stop to peer in. It’s the
renovated DC home of Gensler, the international architecture
and design giant, which recently re-opened in its altered state.
After 14 years on the second and fifth floors of 2020 K Street,
the office, with 270 employees, was ready for an update. Lured
by 14-foot ceilings and potentially 90 feet of window lines, DC
principal and managing director Jordan Goldstein and his team
persuaded their landlord to lease them the ground floor of the
building—formerly home to two restaurants—to create a work
place that would be interactive and open “with everything on
display,” Goldstein says. “It was a great opportunity to think
differently about a work space—could it be a retail space that’s
been rethought?”
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