The New York Times newsroom (Photo courtesy Magnolia Pictures)

If The Washington Post sells its current headquarters and moves to a new location, its new newsroom will be designed by a firm with a couple of swanky media hubs in its portfolio. The Post’s Capital Business section reports that The Washington Post Company has retained the design firm Gensler to sketch out the education and media corporation’s future workspace.

Gensler does nice work, especially when it comes to designing offices for media organizations. Among its high-profile projects are the Associated Press’ D.C. bureau, and the multi-level newsroom at The New York Times’ headquarters.

But, the Post itself notes, Gensler’s services don’t come cheap:

The New York Times offices were designed before the economic collapse (when austerity was less of a focus) but the design demonstrates the open floor plan and high ceilings that have become popular among employers.

The Post Company, though coming off a year in which it reported $131.2 million in net income, is still struggling to fend off continued losses by its two biggest divisions—Kaplan and the eponymous newspaper. The Post’s newsroom has been thinned out by five rounds of buyouts in the past few years, most recently in February 2012, while last month saw the layoffs of 40 staffers on the paper’s business side.