WASHINGTON (February 5, 2026) – Ware Malcomb, an award-winning international design firm, today announced construction is complete on a multi-tenant lab renovation project for Shannon Life Sciences in Watertown, MA. Ware Malcomb’s Washington, D.C. office provided peer review and owner’s representative services for the 70,000 square foot project, located at the corner of Arsenal and Elm Streets.
Shannon Life Sciences is an investment firm dedicated to the frontier of neuroscience venture capital, specializing in identifying and supporting early, groundbreaking ideas with the potential to revolutionize the treatment of patients. The three-story building features an occupiable roof and basement parking. The renovation was designed with flexibility and innovation for multi-tenant life science users in mind.
John Thomas, Senior Fellow Creative Design, Ware Malcomb, said, “The overall vision was to create a clean, open, and highly adaptable environment that supports collaboration while meeting the technical demands of modern research. Our team helped ensure that the project achieves a blend of functionality, flexibility, and design excellence to attract and support leading life science tenants.”
The new lab areas are arranged on a standardized grid with movable benches and ceiling utility panels for power and lab gas, enabling quick reconfiguration as tenant needs evolve. This modular approach, combined with chemical storage control areas, fume hoods in each suite, and tissue culture spaces designed to meet BSL-2 requirements, ensures the building can accommodate a wide range of scientific uses.
Office and amenity spaces complement the labs with open workstations, private offices, huddle rooms, and cafés, along with shared amenities such as a welcoming lobby, bike room, outdoor and rooftop patios, and space for future additions including wellness rooms and event space.
The project introduced coordinated finish palettes—one for offices and amenities, the other for labs—creating a cohesive aesthetic with durable, easy-to-maintain materials such as vinyl composition tile and rolled vinyl flooring in the lab spaces.
About Ware Malcomb (waremalcomb.com)
Established in 1972, Ware Malcomb is a dynamic, forward-thinking commercial real estate design firm providing professional architecture, interior design, civil engineering, branding, building measurement, structural engineering and MEP engineering services to clients throughout the world. With office locations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, the firm specializes in the design of office, industrial, science & technology, healthcare, multifamily, retail, hospitality and public/institutional projects. The firm is also ranked among the top 10 Architecture/Engineering firms in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms and the Top 30 Interior Design Firms in Interior Design magazine’s Top 100 Giants. For more information, visit waremalcomb.com.
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