News + Awards

2026 I-SEED Award, Honorable Mention

— I-SEED Network

Midwives break ground ceremonially for Boston’s first freestanding birth center in Roxbury

— The Boston Globe

Healthy Beginnings: MASS's Amie Shao on the Power of Birth Spaces and Conditions for Care — Madame Architect

— Madame Architect

Landback, boarding school healing, a tribal micro grid and more

— ICT Newscast

Caddo Nation prepares for opening of new childcare center

— ICT News

Making Progress—and Facing Reality—in Maternal and Newborn Health

— Helmsley Charitable Trust

MASS: A Non-Profit Model for Architecture in Service of Society

— ArchDaily

Maternal and newborn health investments’ most powerful asset is space

— Devex

Avanzando: Border thinking and the future of architecture at AIA26

— AIArchitect

Outdoor rec grants awarded to Santa Fe Children's Museum, Reunity Resources

— Santa Fe New Mexican

The Neighborhood Birth Center is Eager to Bear Fruit

— Ujima Boston

Amie Shao: Designing Birth Spaces That Change Outcomes

— Apple Podcasts: Play with Matches

MASS is renovating an education cluster by Ricardo Legorreta for a Santa Fe arts nonprofit

— The Architect's Newspaper

Wood Helps a Domestic Violence Shelter Become a Beacon for Safety

— Think Wood

Garrett’s Space: Alumni break ground with a peer-focused perspective on mental health

— Michigan Today

Memorable Cultural Moments of 2025

— Boston Art Review

Zoning Board approves Roxbury birth center plan

— Bay State Banner

AN looks back on the biggest housing stories of 2025

— Architect's Newspaper

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Merit Award

— AIA Santa Fe

BE+ Green Building Showcase Awards: Site and Landscape

— Built Environment Plus

Noella Nibakuze Reshapes Rwanda’s Design Identity

— Hospitality Design

Phius Passive Projects Design Competition: Best Project by a Young Professional 2025

— Phius

Phius Passive Projects Design Competition: High Rise Multifamily 2025

— Phius

How the Lower Sioux Is Harnessing Hemp to Build Sustainable Homes on Its Own Terms

— Dwell

MASS Design Group completes Snow Country Prison Japanese American Internment Memorial in North Dakota

— The Architect's Newspaper

New monument honors Japanese Americans incarcerated in North Dakota during World War II

— North Dakota Monitor

Tomás Rivera, Executive Director of Chainbreaker Collective, and Joseph Kunkel, Principle at MASS Design Group, discuss recently launched Midtown District-Hopewell Mann Neighborhood Stabilization Plan.

— KSFR Santa Fe

Development without displacement': City partners with nonprofits to protect Hopewell Mann from midtown project gentrification

— Santa Fe New Mexican

City study reveals housing crisis for Albuquerque’s Native American residents

— Newsbreak

Snow Country Prison Memorial Ground Blessing in North Dakota

— Rafu Shimpo

Having the resources to age: Local seniors find affordable housing with medical services on site

— Boston 25 News

Garrett’s Space Offers A Bigger Space for Teens and Young Adults Navigating Mental Health Challenges

— Hour Detroit

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

— The Architectural League of New York

Rwandan architect redesigns urban development in Africa

— Deutsche Welle

To Be Done's Eastern Shoshone Cultural Hub project highlights the vitality of community design input

— Archinect

Building Cancer Care from the Ground Up in Rwanda

— Harvard Medicine

Garrett’s Space Breaks Ground on Transformative Mental Health Campus for Young Adults

— The New Sun Times

‘This place will save lives’: New mental health campus breaks ground in Ann Arbor

— NBC WDIV TV

Ground broken on Garrett's Space expansion

— WEMU 89.1

Nonprofit to break ground on center for young adults facing mental health challenges

— Crain's Detroit Business

AIA Elevate Awards 2025: Unbuilt Architecture, Merit Award

— AIA New Mexico

AIA Elevate Awards 2025: Architecture Design, Citation Award

— AIA New Mexico

Rooted in Tradition, Nature, and Community: Wellness and Healing Spaces from the North to the South Africa

— ArchDaily

Barelas Community Kitchen opens, offers hub for food entrepreneurs

— Albuquerque Business Journal

Amid Zoning Debate, Advocates Press for Roxbury Birth Center

— The Boston Globe

Zoning Board Made Wrong Call in Rejecting Roxbury Birth Center

— The Boston Globe

How can we amplify Indigenous Design?

— Metropolis Magazine

This building is designed to help its residents live a longer, happier life

— Boston Globe

Plan for new Mattapan complex aims to foster connection among children and senior adults

— WBUR

Home Building: Q+A with AIA President Shawn Evans

— Santa Fe New Mexican

MASS Design Group and The Architectural Team to design combined housing and library project in Boston’s West End

— The Architect's Newspaper

Future suicide prevention center outside Ann Arbor secures $373K in county millage funding

— MLIVE

MASS Design Group’s senior housing redevelopment fosters resident connections in Boston

— Think Wood

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

In Indian Country, Advancing Resilience Through Holistic Design

— Enterprise Community Partners

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

— Dwell

2024 SHN Architecture & Design Awards: Affordable Housing

— Senior Housing News

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

— Mellon Foundation