Ipsen opens its new US headquarters in Cambridge soon. The biopharmaceutical company will continue to foster relationships with Boston’s top academic medical research community. With continued growth in the US, the new research site at 650 East Kendall will house laboratory, conference and break-out spaces for the European-based biopharmaceutical company, creating a vibrant new front door for the company. PAYETTE designed the fit-out. The new space visually sets Ipsen apart from other tenants in the building–all planes of the interior space are utilized, from bright blue carpet referencing the company’s branding and colorful moving glass panels that feature integrated type symbolizing the mission of their research visually separates the public atrium and lounge space. Markerboard paint is abundant and invites spontaneous collaboration in this breakout space.
The new fit-out provides a flexible and state-of-the-art research environment as well as a double-height communal space featuring a public Bamboo Garden which also houses reception, kitchen and informal lounge space. Transparency, light and connections to the outdoors are central themes to this new center for research and development. The research and development center features a lively palette, taking advantage of its visual prominence from all levels of the building.
The Boston Globe highlighted Ipsen’s development and growth plans in the US market and prescription drug discovery in a recent article, “Ipsen sets up shop in Cambridge.”
Lobby and communal space photos by Santiago Garay © PAYETTE
Lab photos by Matthew Fickett © PAYETTE
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YDC Tour: Lab Fit-Out
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.