News + Awards

Two Striking New Libraries, Inviting in Different Ways

— Curbed

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

— Archinect

Jha D Amazi on Collective Memory

— Future of the American City Podcast

Return to Freedom: Martin Luther King III and Embrace Boston Revisit Iconic MLK March

— Ebony

The U.S. can preserve its forests by building smartly with new and old techniques and technologies

— The Architect's Newspaper

The Plural Forms of African Landscape Architecture

— Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Grace Farms Holds Fourth Design for Freedom Summit

— Architectural Record

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

Barelas Community Kitchen opens, offers hub for food entrepreneurs

— Albuquerque Business Journal

Field Trips: A new approach to agritourism has architects working to more than just frame a scenic landscape

— The Architect's Newspaper

Design with Artisans: Weaving Connections in Rwanda: Opening Exhibition

— Pratt

Restoration Complete At King's Chapel Burying Ground

— City of Boston

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

— Architectural Record

USAID cuts Somalia Community Project Led by MASS Design Group

— MSN | Dezeen

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

— Architect Magazine

Poughkeepsie: Main Street Momentum

— Chronogram

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

— Penn Today

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

— The Architect's Newspaper

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

— Metalocus

Pro Bono Project: The Champion’s Walk at Corey Ingram Circle

— AIA NYS

MASS Design Group, Marble Fairbanks Architects Unveil Brooklyn Public Library’s New Lots Branch

— AIA New York

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

— Autodesk

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

— Autodesk

Modern Building Honoring African Burial Ground to Transform New Lots Library

— Brownstoner

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects to redesign library in Brooklyn on site of African American burial ground

— The Architect's Newspaper

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

Plans for restorative New Lots Library are unveiled in Brooklyn

— Archinect

New Lots Library redesign will recognize site’s legacy as an African Burial Ground

— 6sqft.

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects Share The Designs for the Brooklyn Public Library New Lots Branch, Honoring the Community’s African Burial Ground History

— Press Release

New Lots Library Redesign Honors African Burial Ground, Community Legacy

— Brooklyn Reader

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects Design a Library That Honors African Burial Ground

— Architect Magazine

Brooklyn Public Library Gets Major Overhaul

— Pix11 NY TV

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

Contemporary Memorials: Spaces of Engagement, Calls to Action

— Harvard GSD

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Commonwealth Association of Architects: Environmental Impact Award

— Commonwealth Association of Architects

WLA Professional Awards 2024, Cultural Landscape Award, Finalist

— World Landscape Architecture

WLA Professional Awards 2024, Built Large Landscape Design, Finalist

— World Landscape Architecture

CONSTRUMAT Sustainability Awards 2024, Shortlist

— CONSTRUMAT

CONSTRUMAT Awards 2024, Finalist

— CONSTRUMAT

How Architecture Can Learn from Native America

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Shaping Our Future: The Transformative Power of Public Memorials

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AIA Santa Fe: Concept Innovation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

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