News + Awards

Plan for new Mattapan complex aims to foster connection among children and senior adults

— WBUR

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

— Architect Magazine

Home Building: Q+A with AIA President Shawn Evans

— Santa Fe New Mexican

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

In Dorchester, peace trail poles offer connection points for grief survivors

— WBUR

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

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

— MLIVE

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

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

— Think Wood

Boston gun violence memorial reveals people behind statistics

— Public News Service

Gun violence took their sons. Now these moms help others navigate grief.

— The Christian Science Monitor

Podcast: We We Wrote This - ‘A deeper sense’: In one interview, he found the story at the heart of a story

— Christian Science Monitor

In Tennessee, famed civil rights center Highlander to regain control of original land

— The Tennesse Lookout

Modern Building Honoring African Burial Ground to Transform New Lots Library

— Brownstoner

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe: The 2024 Architectural Service Award

— AIA Santa Fe

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

— The Architect's Newspaper

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 Design a Library That Honors African Burial Ground

— Architect Magazine

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

Brooklyn Public Library Gets Major Overhaul

— Pix11 NY TV

Gun violence memorial filled with mementos of those lost

— PBS News Hour

Education Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Sustainable Building of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

In Indian Country, Advancing Resilience Through Holistic Design

— Enterprise Community Partners

2024 Planet Positive Awards: Best Overall Decarbonization

— Metropolis Magazine

The Gun Violence Memorial Project turns art into action by showcasing remembrance objects families keep for loved ones they lost to gun violence.

— WHDH Boston TV

2024 Oregon Architecture Awards: Merit Award

— AIA Oregon

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

— Dwell

Istructe Structural Awards 2024

— Istructe

2024 SHN Architecture & Design Awards: Affordable Housing

— Senior Housing News

Global Model of Smart Green Building, Finalist

— Global Forum on Human Settlements

Memorial honoring lives lost to gun violence brings somber reflection to Boston

— The Suffolk Journal

How sustainable tourism helps protect mountain gorillas in Rwanda and strengthens communities

— World Economic Forum

In Far West Texas, a Sacred Burial Site is Reclaimed Through Partnership and Perseverance

— Mellon Foundation

The First Ever Mayors’ Institute on City Design, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hosts Special Session for Mayors and Tribal Leaders

— Press Release

Autodesk Design & Make: Best Building Award

— Autodesk Foundation

The world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

Design is Human Awards

— Atlanta Design Festival

New architecture chapter gets start in New Mexico

— Albuquerque Journal

2024 IES Illumination Awards: Merit Award

— Illuminating Engineering Society

MASS Design’s traveling gun violence memorial is now on view in Boston. It’s asking you to imagine the lives of victims.

— The Boston Globe

Highlander Folk School Fights to Regain Land

— Tennesse Lookout

September 16, 2024 - Zadie Smith, the Boston Film Festival, and the Gun Violence Memorial Project

— The Culture Show Podcast

COTE Top 10

— COTE

Contemporary Memorials: Spaces of Engagement, Calls to Action

— Harvard GSD

MASS Design Group debuts Gun Violence Memorial project at three sites around Boston

— Archinect

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AI-assisted campaign against gun violence that uses voices of deceased rallies in Boston

— GBH

Commonwealth Association of Architects: Environmental Impact Award

— Commonwealth Association of Architects

Down the Rabbit Hole on Highlander and Tennessee Preservation Trust

— Nashville Scene