News + Awards

Sustainable Building of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Education Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

2024 Planet Positive Awards: Best Overall Decarbonization

— Metropolis Magazine

The Gun Violence Memorial Project turns art into action by showcasing remembrance objects families keep for loved ones they lost to gun violence.

— WHDH Boston TV

Istructe Structural Awards 2024

— Istructe

Global Model of Smart Green Building, Finalist

— Global Forum on Human Settlements

Memorial honoring lives lost to gun violence brings somber reflection to Boston

— The Suffolk Journal

How sustainable tourism helps protect mountain gorillas in Rwanda and strengthens communities

— World Economic Forum

In Far West Texas, a Sacred Burial Site is Reclaimed Through Partnership and Perseverance

— Mellon Foundation

Autodesk Design & Make: Best Building Award

— Autodesk Foundation

The world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

MASS Design’s traveling gun violence memorial is now on view in Boston. It’s asking you to imagine the lives of victims.

— The Boston Globe

Highlander Folk School Fights to Regain Land

— Tennesse Lookout

September 16, 2024 - Zadie Smith, the Boston Film Festival, and the Gun Violence Memorial Project

— The Culture Show Podcast

COTE Top 10

— COTE

Contemporary Memorials: Spaces of Engagement, Calls to Action

— Harvard GSD

MASS Design Group debuts Gun Violence Memorial project at three sites around Boston

— Archinect

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AI-assisted campaign against gun violence that uses voices of deceased rallies in Boston

— GBH

Commonwealth Association of Architects: Environmental Impact Award

— Commonwealth Association of Architects

Down the Rabbit Hole on Highlander and Tennessee Preservation Trust

— Nashville Scene

Gun Violence Memorial Project coming to Boston

— Bay State Banner

Who Owns the Story of the Highlander Center?

— Nashville Banner

MASS Design Group is creating a memorial for Japanese-Americans imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II

— The Architect's Newspaper

Gun Violence Victim Families Donate Objects for Boston Memorial

— WCVB TV Boston

Memorial to gun violence victims, made of keepsakes, coming to Boston

— WBUR

GBH News Instagram: The Gun Violence Memorial Project

— GBH News

Murder victims' families invited to contribute to creation of Boston memorials

— WCVB

The Gun Violence Memorial Project, a citywide exhibition and living memorial to victims of gun violence, opens in Boston Aug. 29

— Press Release

WLA Professional Awards 2024, Cultural Landscape Award, Finalist

— World Landscape Architecture

WLA Professional Awards 2024, Built Large Landscape Design, Finalist

— World Landscape Architecture

AIA New Mexico: Distinguished Architecture Award of Merit

— AIA New Mexico

CONSTRUMAT Sustainability Awards 2024, Shortlist

— CONSTRUMAT

CONSTRUMAT Awards 2024, Finalist

— CONSTRUMAT

PRX: Monumental

— PRX

Shaping Our Future: The Transformative Power of Public Memorials

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AIA Santa Fe: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Architect’s Philanthropist

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Sustainability Shapes Rwandan Conservation Project

— RIBA Journal

Learning From Poughkeepsie

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Story in the Public Square

— PBS

ASLA Professional Award: Analysis and Planning

— American Society of Landscape Architects

Our work at MASS has taught us that building is more Verb than Noun

— Selamta

Berkeley Rupp Prize awarded to Sierra Bainbridge, co-founder of MASS Design Group

— Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Berkeley Rupp Prize

— UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Indigenous Environmental and Climate Justice Series: Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, MASS Design Group

— Urbanland

Sustainability Shapes Rwanda’s Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

— Redshift by Autodesk

Pondering if architecture hurts or heals, with Christian Benimana of MASS Design Group

— Stirworld

The future of architecture and building with Kelly Alvarez Doran

— the bentway

A Guide to Rewilding

— ARCHITECT Magazine

King’s Chapel in Boston reckons with complicated roots as it honors more than 200 enslaved connected to congregation

— The Boston Globe

On Boston's Freedom Trail, King's Chapel plans a dramatic facelift to recognize its ties to slavery

— GBH News

Landezine International Landscape Award

— Landezine

Thinking Through Material Flows

— The Architects Newspaper

BSLA Excellence Award in General Design

— Boston Society of Landscape Architects

BSLA Honor Award in Analysis and Planning

— Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Unbuilt Architecture Award - Citation

— AIA New Mexico

Monocle Design Awards

— Monocle