News + Awards

Is “the vernacular” having a moment in Venice?

— Architect's Newspaper

AIA reveals winners of 2025 Architecture Awards

— Dezeen

Architizer A+Awards 2025: Sustainable Landscape & Planning

— Architizer

Architizer A+Awards 2025: +Landscape

— Architizer

AIA Architecture Award 2025

— American Institute of Architects

"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

Winning a Dezeen Award Adds Credibility

— Dezeen

Two Striking New Libraries, Inviting in Different Ways

— Curbed

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

— The Architect's Newspaper

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

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

— Observer

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

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

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

Sustainable Building of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

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

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

— The Suffolk Journal

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

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