MBB is working with the Noel Pointer Foundation and NYC agencies to transform a vacant firehouse in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn into a new music school.
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MBB was engaged by Success Academy, a not-for-profit charter school network in New York City, to design an expansion of their Lower Manhattan offices to accommodate their growing team.
Read Full StoryMBB Partner Sara Grant spoke at “Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Taking Action,” a panel addressing how architects and designers can source building materials more ethically.
Read Full StoryAs part of our ongoing work with Congregation Rodeph Sholom and its PK-8 school, MBB designed a new terrace, playground, and solar green roof.
Read Full StoryMBB’s project for the Carnegie Global Ethics Hub has been named a 2024 Design for Freedom Pilot Project to eliminate forced labor from building supply chains.
Read Full StoryWhen our design team was introduced to Ascend, we learned about the school’s inspiring mission—and their desire to advance that mission through planning and design.
Read Full StoryHow can we reduce buildings’ embodied carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency at the same time?
Read Full StoryDesign as a Tool for Social Equity: UNICEF and Design for Economy and Utility by Fiyel Levent
Read Full StoryIn an interview with Madame Architect’s Julia Gamolina, Mary Burnham reflects on leading a women-owned architecture firm. Read “Design That Matters: Taking the Long View.”
Read Full StoryIntern Harry Hooper shares key experiences from his year-long experience at MBB and provides insight into what future applicants to the firm’s internship program can expect.
Read Full StoryWhat the Pandemic Can Teach Us About the Urgency of the Climate Crisis by John Mealy, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, CPHD
Read Full StoryInstitutions in the Crucible: Steady Values Amid Shifting Priorities by Taylor Aikin, AIA
Read Full Story“MBB Architects Renovates Historic Princeton Museum,” The Construction Specifier, April 20, 2020
Read Full StoryFaith & Form, Volume 52, Issue 3, “Cathedral of Sustainability,” by Jeffrey Murphy
Read Full StoryFor our project at the Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Center, one of MBB's goals was communicating Park Avenue Synagogue's mission in this new, multi-generational learning space. Mary Burnham and Amy Reichert discuss their collaborative efforts to translate Park Avenue Synagogue's values into the architecture. Follow the link to read the full article.
Read Full StoryAssociate and senior project architect Taylor Aikin contributed thoughts on defining sacred spaces through architecture in the most recent issue of Faith & Form. Follow the link to read more about designing houses of worship that can slip nimbly from sacred sites to community spaces without losing their identities.
Read Full StoryNew York Magazine, Daily Intelligencer, "What We Can Learn From the Restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral," September 11, 2015, Justin Davidson.
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