News + Awards

Snow Country Prison Memorial Ground Blessing in North Dakota

— Rafu Shimpo

Who Gets Remembered? MASS demands we rethink the answer

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Rwanda’s Institute for Conservation Agriculture wins Harvard’s top design prize

— Nile Post

MASS Wins Green Prize for Rwanda Ag Campus

— ARCHITECT Magazine

MASS Awarded Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

— Harvard Graduate School of Design

Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

— Harvard Graduate School of Design

“The Gun Violence Memorial Project” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

— The New Art Examiner

Forget Tearing Down the House. Regenerative Design Is on the Rise

— Robb Report

Is “the vernacular” having a moment in Venice?

— Architect's Newspaper

AIA reveals winners of 2025 Architecture Awards

— Dezeen

13th Annual A+Awards Winners Announced: Global Accolades, Local Stories

— Architizer Blog

Architizer A+Awards 2025: Sustainable Landscape & Planning

— Architizer

Architizer A+Awards 2025: +Landscape

— Architizer

AIA Architecture Award 2025

— American Institute of Architects

Ten projects named best in contemporary architecture at the 2025 AIA Architecture Awards

— Archinect

"I Would Prefer Not To" Podcast: MASS Design Group

— The Architectural League of New York

Powerful memorial for gun violence victims draws deep emotions at Detroit's MOCAD

— Detroit Free Press

Bioregional design: What is it and what will it mean for climate and planet?

— World Economic Forum

Harvard Graduate School of Design Community Makes a Strong Showing at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

— Harvard Graduate School of Design

Museum Exhibit in Detroit Pays Tribute to Victims of Gun Violence

— The Detroit News

Finding Sustainable Alternatives to Traditional Building Materials

— Technology Network

Winning a Dezeen Award Adds Credibility

— Dezeen

Rwandan architect redesigns urban development in Africa

— Deutsche Welle

National Endowment for the Arts cuts hurt architecture firms, nonprofits, and schools

— The Architect's Newspaper

Two Striking New Libraries, Inviting in Different Ways

— Curbed

National exhibit honoring gun violence victims on display in Detroit

— CBS News Detroit

New art exhibit at Detroit museum honors victims of gun violence

— ABC Detroit TV

Jha D Amazi on Collective Memory

— Future of the American City Podcast

Gun Violence Memorial Project opens Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

— NBC Detroit TV

The Metro: New MOCAD installation tells the human story behind gun violence statistics

— WDET 101.9 FM

Return to Freedom: Martin Luther King III and Embrace Boston Revisit Iconic MLK March

— Ebony

Detroit Art Institutions Resist Political Challenges to Diversity

— The New York Times

The U.S. can preserve its forests by building smartly with new and old techniques and technologies

— The Architect's Newspaper

In Detroit, MOCAD Is Putting Community at the Core of Contemporary Art

— Observer

The Plural Forms of African Landscape Architecture

— Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Grace Farms Holds Fourth Design for Freedom Summit

— Architectural Record

Instead of waiting for acceptance and appreciation, women in the AEC community are creating their own safer, more satisfying job sites

— The Architect's Newspaper

Field Trips: A new approach to agritourism has architects working to more than just frame a scenic landscape

— The Architect's Newspaper

Design with Artisans: Weaving Connections in Rwanda: Opening Exhibition

— Pratt

Designing with Purpose: How Storytelling Empowers Architects to Lead Transformative Change

— Architect Magazine

From a desert to an oasis: Penn engages in ambitious greening effort in the Sahel

— Penn Today

In Dorchester, peace trail poles offer connection points for grief survivors

— WBUR

Earthen walls for Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture by MASS Design Group

— Metalocus

MASS Design Group, Marble Fairbanks Architects Unveil Brooklyn Public Library’s New Lots Branch

— AIA New York

7 ways the AECO industry can advance climate-positive design for a greener future

— Autodesk

Building a sustainable campus for the world’s first climate-positive university

— Autodesk

Boston gun violence memorial reveals people behind statistics

— Public News Service

Podcast: We We Wrote This - ‘A deeper sense’: In one interview, he found the story at the heart of a story

— Christian Science Monitor

Gun violence took their sons. Now these moms help others navigate grief.

— The Christian Science Monitor

In Tennessee, famed civil rights center Highlander to regain control of original land

— The Tennesse Lookout

Modern Building Honoring African Burial Ground to Transform New Lots Library

— Brownstoner

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects to redesign library in Brooklyn on site of African American burial ground

— The Architect's Newspaper

New Lots Library redesign will recognize site’s legacy as an African Burial Ground

— 6sqft.

Plans for restorative New Lots Library are unveiled in Brooklyn

— Archinect

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects Design a Library That Honors African Burial Ground

— Architect Magazine

Brooklyn Public Library Gets Major Overhaul

— Pix11 NY TV

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects Share The Designs for the Brooklyn Public Library New Lots Branch, Honoring the Community’s African Burial Ground History

— Press Release

New Lots Library Redesign Honors African Burial Ground, Community Legacy

— Brooklyn Reader

Gun violence memorial filled with mementos of those lost

— PBS News Hour