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In Venice, a Chorus of Voices From Africa

20 May 2023 — The New York Times

Thinking Through Material Flows

18 May 2023 — The Architects Newspaper

BSLA Honor Award in Analysis and Planning

11 May 2023 — Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Monocle Design Awards

27 April 2023 — Monocle

Norrsken Kigali House / MASS Design Group

21 April 2023 — ArchDaily

Building a Better World

14 April 2023 — Harvard Magazine

Norrsken Kigali House

17 March 2023 — Archinect

Norrsken Kigali House

15 March 2023 — Architect Magazine

Love in Design: MASS Design Group's Senior Principal Katie Swenson on Home Making, Community Architects, and Feeling Others' Joy

7 March 2023 — Madame Architect

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

12 February 2023 — The Boston Globe

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

9 February 2023 — The Architects Newspaper

Will the public embrace "The Embrace"?

22 January 2023 — CBS News

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

18 January 2023 — City of Boston

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

18 January 2023 — NBC Boston

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

18 January 2023 — Architectural Record

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

17 January 2023 — Archinect

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

17 January 2023 — Boston Art Review

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

16 January 2023 — Architect's Newspaper

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

16 January 2023 — PBS News Hour

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

15 January 2023 — Architect Magazine

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

13 January 2023 — Boston Herald

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

13 January 2023 — The Boston Globe

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

13 January 2023 — Architectural Digest

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

13 January 2023 — WCVB Channel 5

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

12 January 2023 — The Boston Globe

MASS: Seeking Abundance

16 December 2022 — The Architectural League NY

Changing Narratives: MASS Design Group’s Noella Nibakuze on Pioneering Paths and Shaping a Rwandan Architecture

2 November 2022 — Madame Architect

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

19 October 2022 — CNN

Kigali's Inspiring Skyline

17 October 2022 — CNN: Inside Africa

Seeding A Wilder Future

12 October 2022 — Landscape Architecture Magazine

Editorial: Building Resiliency

1 October 2022 — Canadian Architect

Can Architecture Build Values, Too?

8 September 2022 — The New York Times

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

7 September 2022 — Wall Street Journal Magazine

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

17 August 2022 — UT News

Moving Windmills

11 July 2022 — CNN: Inside Africa

Circle of Champions Walk unveiled in Poughkeepsie

20 June 2022 — Mid Hudson News

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

17 June 2022 — Poughkeepsie Journal

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

16 June 2022 — The Boston Globe

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

15 June 2022 — Architect Magazine

Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens

1 June 2022 — Canadian Architect

Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity

31 May 2022 — Architectural Record

Officials break ground on monument honoring Martin Luther King

27 April 2022 — The Boston Globe

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

24 February 2022 — The Boston Globe

MASS Announces Promotions in 2022

10 February 2022 — Press Release

New Green Spaces Don’t Have to Lead to Gentrification

1 February 2022 — ArchDaily

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

14 January 2022 — The Boston Globe

MASS Design Group Wins 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

9 December 2021 — Architect Magazine

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

9 December 2021 — American Institute of Architects

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

26 May 2021 — The Boston Globe

Boston's MLK memorial cleared by city Landmarks Commission

26 May 2021 — The Washington Post

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

25 April 2021 — The Boston Globe

2021's Most Innovative Architecture Companies

9 March 2021 — Fast Company

The 10 most innovative architecture companies of 2021

9 March 2021 — Fast Company

Architizer A+ Firm Awards: Humanitarian Architecture

19 January 2021 — Architizer

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

14 January 2021 — The New York Times

Under new leader, King Boston embraces a bolder vision

27 December 2020 — The Boston Globe

Memorial rules are not set in stone

15 December 2020 — Financial Times

2021 AD100

8 December 2020 — The Architectural Digest

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

16 November 2020 — Archinect

MASS Design Group Is Reimagining the Spaces of Everyday Life

14 November 2020 — The Wall Street Journal