WORKPLACE
I want every employee working in Voyager to have a view
Jensen Huang CEO NVIDIA
built environment lifting productivity, creativity, concentration and wellbeing. According to real estate firm JLL, 73 % of people said that having more green space near or in their workplace would“ directly improve their daily wellbeing”. Gensler’ s own Global Workplace Survey finds that employees in offices with plants, high ventilation and natural light score 26 % higher on cognitive function tests. They also see a 15 % boost in productivity and a 20 % lift in creativity. Imagine, then, the boost that comes with an entire mountain and multiple species of plants cascading down walls. Inside Voyager, a stairway scales a central‘ mountain’ structure complete with terraced platforms for meetings and an amphitheater for all-hands gatherings. Triangular skylights optimise natural light levels, while more than 14,000 vines, shrubs and grasses bring nature firmly inside Voyager’ s walls. All the building’ s offices face outside windows, reportedly due to Jensen insisting on a site that gives every employee a view. A critical design consideration was creating an optimal environment for a less siloed workplace, necessitating a specific
Biophilic design principles bring nature into the built environment, lifting creativity, concentration, productivity and wellbeing
94 March 2026