News + Awards

Instead of waiting for acceptance and appreciation, women in the AEC community are creating their own safer, more satisfying job sites

— The Architect's Newspaper

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

Design with Artisans: Weaving Connections in Rwanda: Opening Exhibition

— Pratt

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

— Boston Globe

Designing with Purpose: How Storytelling Empowers Architects to Lead Transformative Change

— Architect Magazine

From a desert to an oasis: Penn engages in ambitious greening effort in the Sahel

— Penn Today

Earthen walls for Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture by MASS Design Group

— Metalocus

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

— MLIVE

Building a sustainable campus for the world’s first climate-positive university

— Autodesk

7 ways the AECO industry can advance climate-positive design for a greener future

— Autodesk

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

— Think Wood

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

Istructe Structural Awards 2024

— Istructe

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

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Architect’s Philanthropist

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

— NPR

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

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

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

— ArchDaily

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

Participatory design in action

— The World Bank ZIRP Blog

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

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