With her specialty in interior design, TRIA Architects’ Marilyn Shen says she spends the vast majority of her time anticipating people’s needs and likes. That emphasis has taken on a paramount role in her new position as the Boston-based firm’s director of integrated workplace design.
University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Ora Inc. have signed a pair of long-term leases totaling 17,000 square feet at Innovation Park, a 200,000-square-foot corporate campus in Andover.
After Natasha Pirman’s employer moved to a new campus in 2017, she began thinking about a career change. The biochemistry Ph.D.’s knack for organizing their new workspaces translated well into the world of architecture, where local firms are looking for new hires with life science backgrounds as they pursue work designing office and labs to satisfy the industry’s relentless expansion.
