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Four Health-Care Projects by MASS Design Group in Africa

Beth Broome

July 6, 2020

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Upcoming projects in Liberia, Rwanda, and Nigeria offer widely applicable best practices.

Diagram of interventions on the Guggenheim Pavilion

MASS Design Offers Guidance for Adapting Hospitals on the Fly

James S. Russell, FAIA

April 29, 2020

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Working with Ariadne Labs and Mount Sinai Hospital, the architecture firm has released a free online guide for rapidly redesigning hospitals to protect health-care workers during the pandemic.

Ruhehe Primary School by MASS Design Group

Rwanda

Laura Raskin

February 15, 2019

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The transformation of a Rwandan facility by MASS Design Group’s African Design Centre is a model for local education.

National Memorial for Peace and Justice by Offers Powerful, Haunting Experience

Glenny Brock

April 27, 2018

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RECORD reports from the opening day of an evocative new memorial and museum in in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to victims of lynching.

Lynching Memorial Opening Thursday in Alabama

Miriam Sitz

April 25, 2018

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative in collaboration with MASS Design Group, opens in Montgomery on April 26, along with a museum.

Memorial to Victims of Lynching Planned for Alabama

Miriam Sitz

August 19, 2016

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More than 800 floating concrete columns will commemorate the dead and compel communities to remember the past.

Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village by MASS Design Group

Malawi

Miriam Sitz

July 1, 2016

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A short-term-housing village in Malawi by MASS Design Group provides safety and comfort for expectant mothers.

Ilima Primary School

A remote Congolese village promises to protect the rain forest in exchange for an innovative school building.

Laura Raskin

January 1, 2016

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MASS Design group is used to working in remote places. Building schools or health centers where there were none and training local labor is practically written into its DNA.