Case Study: The Walt Disney Company unites media teams in a creative HQ with Gensler

The Walt Disney Company builds a 1.2 million-square-foot NYC headquarters with Gensler

The Walt Disney Company faced a challenge in the rapidly evolving media landscape, needing to unite its distributed Manhattan teams into an agile, tech-rich workplace that fostered creativity and collaboration. To solve this, they partnered with vendor Gensler for interior architecture, workplace strategy, and media production design.

Gensler's solution was a 1.2 million-square-foot vertical creative campus anchored by shared amenities like a Great Room. The design integrated state-of-the-art newsrooms and production spaces directly into the workplace. The impact is a future-proof headquarters that reinforces Disney as an industry leader, designed to attract top talent and seamlessly adapt to new technologies and media formats.

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