News + Awards

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

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

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

— Dwell

Istructe Structural Awards 2024

— Istructe

2024 SHN Architecture & Design Awards: Affordable Housing

— Senior Housing News

Global Model of Smart Green Building, Finalist

— Global Forum on Human Settlements

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

— World Economic Forum

Autodesk Design & Make: Best Building Award

— Autodesk Foundation

The world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

COTE Top 10

— COTE

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Commonwealth Association of Architects: Environmental Impact Award

— Commonwealth Association of Architects

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— ARCHITECT Magazine

WLA Professional Awards 2024, Built Large Landscape Design, Finalist

— World Landscape Architecture

WLA Professional Awards 2024, Cultural Landscape Award, Finalist

— World Landscape Architecture

CONSTRUMAT Sustainability Awards 2024, Shortlist

— CONSTRUMAT

CONSTRUMAT Awards 2024, Finalist

— CONSTRUMAT

Housing Justice, by Design

— ARCHITECT Magazine

New Brighton seniors’ facility adds dozens of units to let residents age ‘with dignity’

— WGBH, March 18, 2024

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

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

— Selamta

ASLA Professional Award: Analysis and Planning

— American Society of Landscape Architects

Berkeley Rupp Prize

— UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

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

— 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

MASS Design Group, Mikyoung Kim, Shigeru Ban Architects, and others throw their names in the hat to design a new library in Boston’s West End

— The Architect's Newspaper

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

12,000 architects came to S.F. This is what they said about the housing crisis

— San Francisco Chronicle

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

Monocle Design Awards

— Monocle

Building a Better World

— Harvard Magazine

CarbonPositive: Can We Halve Carbon in the Built Environment?

— Architect Magazine

Five key projects by Dezeen Awards judge and MASS Design Group's Kelly Alvarez Doran

— Dezeen

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

— Madame Architect

The 2023 WoW List

— Architectural Digest

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

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

— The Boston Globe

MASS: Seeking Abundance

— The Architectural League NY

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

— Madame Architect

See Affordable Housing at the National Building Museum

— Architects and Artisans

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine

Editorial: Building Resiliency

— Canadian Architect

Can Architecture Build Values, Too?

— The New York Times

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

— Southwest Contemporary

Principals at Six Top Firms Predict Where American Design Is Headed

— Metropolis

MASS Establishes a Model for Regenerative Construction in Rwanda

— Architectural Record

Moving Windmills

— CNN: Inside Africa