“We don’t really talk about targets,” claims Duncan Swinhoe. “We have aspirations”

Building Design is speaking to Gensler’s co-managing principal for Europe and its new global co-chief executive Julia Simet. The practice is the biggest in the world, with a turnover last year of $1.84bn (£1.46bn). It is the first to employ more than 3,000 people and topping this publication’s WA100 list of the globe’s biggest architecture firms for eight years running. Its resilience and growth over the past six decades, since its founding in 1965, has been an extraordinary success story.

…