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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

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

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

New Lots Library Redesign Honors African Burial Ground, Community Legacy

— Brooklyn Reader

Gun violence memorial filled with mementos of those lost

— PBS News Hour

In Indian Country, Advancing Resilience Through Holistic Design

— Enterprise Community Partners

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

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

— Dwell

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 world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

New architecture chapter gets start in New Mexico

— Albuquerque Journal

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

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

Down the Rabbit Hole on Highlander and Tennessee Preservation Trust

— Nashville Scene

Gun Violence Memorial Project coming to Boston

— Bay State Banner

Who Owns the Story of the Highlander Center?

— Nashville Banner

"Paris has had more than 100 years to prepare to host the Olympics"

— dezeen

MASS Design Group is creating a memorial for Japanese-Americans imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II

— The Architect's Newspaper

Memorial to gun violence victims, made of keepsakes, coming to Boston

— WBUR

Gun Violence Victim Families Donate Objects for Boston Memorial

— WCVB TV Boston

GBH News Instagram: The Gun Violence Memorial Project

— GBH News

Murder victims' families invited to contribute to creation of Boston memorials

— WCVB

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Housing Justice, by Design

— ARCHITECT Magazine

New Brighton seniors’ facility adds dozens of units to let residents age ‘with dignity’

— WGBH, March 18, 2024

PRX: Monumental

— PRX

How Architecture Can Learn from Native America

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Shaping Our Future: The Transformative Power of Public Memorials

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Architect’s Philanthropist

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

— NPR

Building Responsibly

— AIA New York

Sustainability Shapes Rwandan Conservation Project

— RIBA Journal

Learning From Poughkeepsie

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Story in the Public Square

— PBS

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

— Selamta

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

— Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Indigenous Environmental and Climate Justice Series: Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, MASS Design Group

— Urbanland

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