Höweler+Yoon has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience and a sensitivity to tectonics.
The memorial was spontaneously inaugurated as a gathering place for group and individual contemplation during the national protests against racialized violence in June 2020.
The firm's other work includes the 212 Stuart Street multi-family residential tower (Boston), the MIT Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and Float Lab, a public art installation and floating laboratory on the Schuylkill River (Philadelphia).
In 2003, the firm was commissioned to design an interactive public art piece for the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics.
[3] They went on to design the Boston Society of Architects Headquarters, the Sean Collier Memorial at MIT,[4] Sky Courts Exhibition Hall[5] (Chengdu, China), and Swing Time.