News + Awards

'Embrace' sculpture unveiled on Boston Common ahead of MLK Day

— WCVB Channel 5

‘The Embrace’ is a tribute to love, justice, and the unsung

— 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

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine

Editorial: Building Resiliency

— Canadian Architect

Can Architecture Build Values, Too?

— The New York Times

Hank Willis Thomas Sees His Art as a Call to “Loving Action”

— Wall Street Journal Magazine

Reimagining UT’s East Mall — New campus initiative to honor the Precursors

— UT News

MASS Establishes a Model for Regenerative Construction in Rwanda

— Architectural Record

Moving Windmills

— CNN: Inside Africa

Circle of Champions Walk unveiled in Poughkeepsie

— Mid Hudson News

Poughkeepsie's Champions: Memorial to celebrate city's civic leaders, see what's planned

— Poughkeepsie Journal

‘In the heart of their hug’: Hank Willis Thomas on his ‘Embrace’ tribute to the Kings

— The Boston Globe

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Signals New Future for Gorilla Conservation, Education, Research, and Tourism in Rwanda

— Press Release

Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens

— Canadian Architect

Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity

— Architectural Record

Officials break ground on monument honoring Martin Luther King

— The Boston Globe

Inside Ellen DeGeneres’s Mission to Aid Gorilla Conservation

— Architectural Digest

Ellen DeGeneres Gorilla Conservation Campus Now Open

— KT Press

Ellen DeGeneres' Gorilla Conservation Campus Is Officially Open in Rwanda: 'the Honor of a Lifetime'

— PEOPLE

New Green Spaces Don’t Have to Lead to Gentrification

— ArchDaily

‘The Embrace,’ Boston’s long-awaited tribute to the Kings, will be unveiled on MLK Day 2023

— The Boston Globe

MASS Design Group Wins 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— Architect Magazine

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— Press Release

Boston's MLK memorial cleared by city Landmarks Commission

— The Washington Post

‘A monument to love’: MLK memorial clears final hurdle for construction

— The Boston Globe

Bank of America pledges $1 million to King Boston efforts, the biggest corporate gift so far

— The Boston Globe

The World’s Best Architecture Firms: Revealing the Winners of the 2021 A+Firm Awards!

— Architizer

A Racial Equity Monument, From Hank Willis Thomas, Is Set for Boston

— The New York Times

Justice is Beauty

— Home & Design Magazine

Under new leader, King Boston embraces a bolder vision

— The Boston Globe

Memorial rules are not set in stone

— Financial Times

MASS Design Group – Architecture Innovator of the Year

— e-architect

ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

— Landscape Business

MASS Design Group Named WSJ Magazine’s Architecture Innovator of the Year

— Archinect

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

King Boston seeks corporate donors to make memorial and economic justice center a reality

— The Boston Globe

Learning from Kigali: Lessons for climate-positive design

— Canadian Architect

Architects take Climate Action! Archinect talks climate emergency activism with built environment groups taking a stand

— Archinect

Building Industry Gets Serious About Its Embodied Carbon Problem

— Greentech Media

ASLA Professional Awards: Analysis and Planning

— American Society of Landscape Architects

MASS: Meet The Men, Women Who Have Changed The Face Of Architecture In Rwanda And Beyond

— KT Press

The blind spot of low-carbon buildings

— Corporate Knights

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

— The Poughkeepsie Journal

King memorial nearly ready for Boston Common as backer begins second effort to honor civil rights leader

— The Boston Globe

Beyond Net Zero

— rocagallery

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

— New York Magazine

TRANSFER Architecture Video Award

— TRANSFER

Why MASS Design Group Created a Corn Maze in a Small Indiana Town

— Architectural Digest

Love in the Public Square

— Architecture Boston

Do We Deserve to Heal?

— Architecture Boston

Exhibit Columbus 2019 celebrates the value of good design and community

— The Architect's Newspaper

Can Groundbreaking Architecture Spur Social Change?

— Departures

New Shaker Square Design Integrates Central Public Space With Neighborhoods

— WKSU

Volunteers spend the weekend planting corn for ‘Corn/Meal’ installation

— The Republic