World-Renowned Architect Art Gensler Dies At 85
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Art Gensler, founder of the world’s largest architecture company, has died at the age of 85. Gensler’s eponymous company was behind some of the world’s best known buildings, including China’s tallest skyscraper, the 632-metre Shanghai Tower. </span> <span style="fo
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May 15, 2021 4:13 AM
Art Gensler, founder of the world’s largest architecture company, has died at the age of 85. Gensler’s eponymous company was behind some of the world’s best known buildings, including China’s tallest skyscraper, the 632-metre Shanghai Tower. The designer was born in New York in 1935 and studied at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. In 1965, he founded a small interiors shop that would grow to become a dominating force on the global architecture scene, with 50 offices around the world. Gensler's expansive portfolio of projects includes hotels, universities, airports, stadiums, and headquarters for corporate giants such as Facebook, Burberry and Hyundai, and the first Apple stores. Gensler was a designer that remained focused on the user for the entirety of his career, promoting an "inside out" ethos that harked back to his interior design roots. In an age of starchitects, he remained relatively low-key.
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