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

— Boston Globe

Poughkeepsie: Main Street Momentum

— Chronogram

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

— The Architect's Newspaper

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

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

— MLIVE

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

— Think Wood

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

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

— 6sqft.

Plans for restorative New Lots Library are unveiled in Brooklyn

— Archinect

Brooklyn Public Library Gets Major Overhaul

— Pix11 NY TV

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

Contemporary Memorials: Spaces of Engagement, Calls to Action

— Harvard GSD

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— ARCHITECT Magazine

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

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

— NPR

Learning From Poughkeepsie

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Story in the Public Square

— PBS

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

— Berkeley College of Environmental Design

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

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

— ArchDaily

King’s Chapel in Boston reckons with complicated roots as it honors more than 200 enslaved connected to congregation

— The Boston Globe

On Boston's Freedom Trail, King's Chapel plans a dramatic facelift to recognize its ties to slavery

— GBH News

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

— Poughkeepsie Journal

Participatory design in action

— The World Bank ZIRP Blog

Building a Better World

— Harvard 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

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

Will the public embrace "The Embrace"?

— CBS News

MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas Unveil Boston Memorial to MLK and Coretta Scott King

— Architectural Record

Mayor Wu and Embrace Boston Announce Unveiling of "The Embrace"

— City of Boston

Meet The Embrace: New Monument Honoring MLK Jr. & Coretta Scott King Now Open to Public

— NBC Boston

Unveiling “The Embrace,” Boston’s Tribute to the Legacy of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

— Boston Art Review

MASS Design Group's touching Hank Willis Thomas MLK memorial commission debuts in Boston

— Archinect

A new sculpture and plaza on the Boston Common honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy

— Architect's Newspaper

‘The Embrace’ sculpture celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in Boston

— PBS News Hour

In Boston, 'The Embrace' Honors the Legacy and Love of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King

— Architect Magazine

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

— WCVB Channel 5

‘I see love and strength:’ King family delivers powerful speeches as Embrace memorial honoring MLK is unveiled

— Boston Herald

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

— The Boston Globe

A Striking New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Captures the Feeling of Love

— Architectural Digest

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

— The Boston Globe

AIA Santa Fe: Conceptual Work Innovation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

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

“A sacred space”: Architects and tribal community share a plan to protect Presidio’s Lipan Apache cemetery

— Marfa Public Radio

City of Presidio approves architectural designs for Lipan Apache Cemetery

— The Big Bend Sentinel

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

— Wall Street Journal Magazine

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

— Southwest Contemporary

One of the Most Significant Memorials on the Planet

— Architect Magazine

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Announces MCHAP Outstanding Projects

— ArchDaily

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

— The Boston Globe