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Five Outstanding Examples of Industrial Adaptive Reuse

— Urban Land

Scenic Hudson unveils $43.7M Northside Hub as model for greener urban redevelopment

— Times Union

MASS Design Group turns historic New York factory into community hub

— Dezeen

Historic 170-year-old Alabama hotel saved from demolition

— Advance Local Media

Scenic Hudson’s Northside Hub Transforms a Piece of Abandoned History into a Promising Future

— The River Journal

Scenic Hudson opens new 'Northside Hub' in Poughkeepsie

— WAMC

The Conservation Fund saves the Historic Edistone Hotel in Downtown Selma

— Bama Buzz

Scenic Hudson Opens Northside Hub in Poughkeepsie, Transforming Abandoned Factory into Net-Zero Headquarters and Community Space

— Chronogram

Historic Standard Gage factory repurposed into Scenic Hudson's Northside Hub

— Spectrum News

Standard Gage building revival complete. What's taken shape at Scenic Hudson's Northside Hub

— Poughkeepsie Journal

See inside Scenic Hudson's new headquarters, the Northside Hub

— Poughkeepsie Journal

MASS Design Group transforms vacant manufacturing plant in Poughkeepsie, New York

— The Architect's Newspaper

Conservation Fund saves Selma’s historic Edistone Hotel from the wrecking ball

— Black Belt News Network

AIA Housing Awards 2025: Specialized Housing

— American Institute of Architects

MASS Design Group Transforms an Abandoned Hudson Valley Cistern Into an Underground Arts Venue

— Architectural Record

Poughkeepsie: Main Street Momentum

— Chronogram

2024 Oregon Architecture Awards: Merit Award

— AIA Oregon

The First Ever Mayors’ Institute on City Design, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hosts Special Session for Mayors and Tribal Leaders

— Press Release

2024 IES Illumination Awards: Merit Award

— Illuminating Engineering Society

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

IAUD International Design Award 2023: Housing and Architecture

— International Association for Universal Design

Building Responsibly

— AIA New York

Learning From Poughkeepsie

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Story in the Public Square

— PBS

Dutchess County youth center to cost about $70M to build

— Poughkeepsie Journal

Norrsken Kigali House / MASS Design Group

— ArchDaily

Building a Better World

— Harvard Magazine

Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield: Advocating for Disability Justice in Design

— Architect 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

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

— The Architects Newspaper

MASS Design Group’s Director Jeffrey Mansfield Shares His Top Five Recent Obsessions

— ARTnews

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

— CNN

Kigali's Inspiring Skyline

— CNN: Inside Africa

Jeffrey Mansfield on His 'Architecture of Deafness' Exhibit and Designing for Social Inclusion

— Hunker

Design for All

— Architectural Digest

MASS Design Group's Jeffrey Mansfield receives $50,000 grant for study into architecture for the deaf

— Archinect

This Design Director Is Bringing Awareness to the Architecture of Deafness

— Architectural Digest

MASS Design Group Is Reimagining the Spaces of Everyday Life

— The Wall Street Journal

WSJ. Magazine Celebrates a Decade of Innovation

— Associated Press

The WSJ Magazine 2020 Innovator Awards

— WSJ Magazine

WSJ Magazine Sets Virtual Innovator Awards With BTS, Jennifer Lopez, Michaela Coel, Phoebe Waller-Bridge

— Hollywood Reporter

How Deafness shapes our world

— Fast Company

Design School Hosts Panel on the Intersection of Voting and Design

— The Harvard Crimson

Historic Standard Gage buildings in city to be renovated by Scenic Hudson

— The Poughkeepsie Journal

The Mid-Century Misfire That Was ‘Slum Clearance’ Tore Down Much More Than Tenements

— New York Magazine

Fringe Cities is a poignant study of urban renewal, and its aftermath, in the small-American city

— The Architect's Newspaper

How four small cities are fighting the effects of urban renewal

— Curbed

Poughkeepsie’s Historic Trolley Barn Goes From Horse-Drawn Carriages to Downtown Art Hub

— Hudson Valley Magazine

YMCA: Poughkeepsie proposals narrowed; community meeting scheduled

— The Poughkeepsie Journal

AN rounds up our favorite coast-to-coast fall exhibitions of 2019

— The Architect's Newspaper

YMCA: Poughkeepsie proposals include community resource hub, aquatic center, art museums

— The Poughkeepsie Journal

Poughkeepsie artists open their studios this weekend for glimpse into creative process

— The Poughkeepsie Journal

$10M Poughkeepsie development to bring fresh food mart, food hall, brewery to city

— Poughkeepsie Journal

What's New on the Business Scene for Feb. 2 Poughkeepsie

— Poughkeepsie Journal