News + Awards

Arch30 Emerging Leaders

— Metropolis Magazine

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

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

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

In Venice, a Chorus of Voices From Africa

— The New York Times

Thinking Through Material Flows

— The Architects Newspaper

Unbuilt Architecture Award - Citation

— AIA New Mexico

Monocle Design Awards

— Monocle

Norrsken Kigali House / MASS Design Group

— ArchDaily

Building a Better World

— Harvard Magazine

Norrsken Kigali House

— Archinect

Norrsken Kigali House

— Architect Magazine

Love in Design: MASS Design Group's Senior Principal Katie Swenson on Home Making, Community Architects, and Feeling Others' Joy

— Madame Architect

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

MASS Design Group adapts a former school in Rwanda into an entrepreneurial hub for a Swedish nonprofit

— The Architects Newspaper

Will the public embrace "The Embrace"?

— CBS News

Mayor Wu and Embrace Boston Announce Unveiling of "The Embrace"

— City of Boston

Meet The Embrace: New Monument Honoring MLK Jr. & Coretta Scott King Now Open to Public

— NBC Boston

MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas Unveil Boston Memorial to MLK and Coretta Scott King

— Architectural Record

Unveiling “The Embrace,” Boston’s Tribute to the Legacy of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

— Boston Art Review

MASS Design Group's touching Hank Willis Thomas MLK memorial commission debuts in Boston

— Archinect

A new sculpture and plaza on the Boston Common honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy

— Architect's Newspaper

‘The Embrace’ sculpture celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in Boston

— PBS News Hour

In Boston, 'The Embrace' Honors the Legacy and Love of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King

— Architect Magazine

A Striking New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Captures the Feeling of Love

— Architectural Digest

'Embrace' sculpture unveiled on Boston Common ahead of MLK Day

— WCVB Channel 5

‘I see love and strength:’ King family delivers powerful speeches as Embrace memorial honoring MLK is unveiled

— Boston Herald

MASS Design Group — the firm behind ‘The Embrace’ — has made a name for itself with these social justice-driven projects

— The Boston Globe

‘The Embrace’ is a tribute to love, justice, and the unsung

— The Boston Globe

AIA Santa Fe: Conceptual Work Innovation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

Changing Narratives: MASS Design Group’s Noella Nibakuze on Pioneering Paths and Shaping a Rwandan Architecture

— Madame Architect

City of Presidio approves architectural designs for Lipan Apache Cemetery

— The Big Bend Sentinel

“A sacred space”: Architects and tribal community share a plan to protect Presidio’s Lipan Apache cemetery

— Marfa Public Radio

Kigali is building its way to becoming ‘the Silicon Valley of Africa’

— CNN

Kigali's Inspiring Skyline

— CNN: Inside Africa

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine

Editorial: Building Resiliency

— Canadian Architect

Can Architecture Build Values, Too?

— The New York Times

Hank Willis Thomas Sees His Art as a Call to “Loving Action”

— Wall Street Journal Magazine

Critical Mass: MASS Design Group’s International Humanitarian Architecture Starts with Immersion in the Local

— Southwest Contemporary

Reimagining UT’s East Mall — New campus initiative to honor the Precursors

— UT News

One of the Most Significant Memorials on the Planet

— Architect Magazine

July 2022 Editor's Letter: Memorializing the Victims of Gun Violence

— Architectural Record

Moving Windmills

— CNN: Inside Africa

A ‘Sad Kinship’ as Towns Build Memorials to Victims of Mass Shootings

— New York Times

Circle of Champions Walk unveiled in Poughkeepsie

— Mid Hudson News

Poughkeepsie's Champions: Memorial to celebrate city's civic leaders, see what's planned

— Poughkeepsie Journal

‘In the heart of their hug’: Hank Willis Thomas on his ‘Embrace’ tribute to the Kings

— The Boston Globe

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Announces MCHAP Outstanding Projects

— ArchDaily

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens

— Canadian Architect

Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity

— Architectural Record