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New Lots Library Redesign Honors African Burial Ground, Community Legacy

— Brooklyn Reader

Sustainable Building of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Istructe Structural Awards 2024

— Istructe

Autodesk Design & Make: Best Building Award

— Autodesk Foundation

The world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

Design is Human Awards

— Atlanta Design Festival

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Commonwealth Association of Architects: Environmental Impact Award

— Commonwealth Association of Architects

100 Best Architecture and Design Firms in the United States, Finalist

— Architizer

CONSTRUMAT Sustainability Awards 2024, Shortlist

— CONSTRUMAT

CONSTRUMAT Awards 2024, Finalist

— CONSTRUMAT

Arch30 Emerging Leaders

— Metropolis Magazine

PRX: Monumental

— PRX

How Architecture Can Learn from Native America

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Our work at MASS has taught us that building is more Verb than Noun

— Selamta

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

Landezine International Landscape Award

— Landezine

In Venice, a Chorus of Voices From Africa

— The New York Times

Thinking Through Material Flows

— The Architects Newspaper

BSLA Excellence Award in General Design

— Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Monocle Design Awards

— Monocle

Norrsken Kigali House / MASS Design Group

— ArchDaily

Five key projects by Dezeen Awards judge and MASS Design Group's Kelly Alvarez Doran

— Dezeen

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

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

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

— The Architects Newspaper

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

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

— CNN

Kigali's Inspiring Skyline

— CNN: Inside Africa

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine

Editorial: Building Resiliency

— Canadian Architect

Can Architecture Build Values, Too?

— The New York Times

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

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens

— Canadian Architect

Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity

— Architectural Record

Minneapolis College of Art & Design launches itself toward a 'campus of the future'

— Star Tribune

What Paul Farmer taught me about ‘dignity construction’ in health care

— The Boston Globe

MASS Announces Promotions in 2022

— Press Release

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

Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa Win 2022 AIA Gold Medal, The organization recognizes MASS Design Group with its annual Architecture Firm Award

— Architectural Record

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— American Institute of Architects

MASS Design Group Wins 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— Architect Magazine

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— Press Release

African Leadership University Opens Flagship Campus Designed by MASS Design Group

— Press Release

African Leadership University by MASS Design Group

— Architectural Record

National Building Museum Announces Two Important and Timely New Exhibitions on April 9

— Press Release

2021's Most Innovative Architecture Companies

— Fast Company

The 10 most innovative architecture companies of 2021

— Fast Company