Assembly House 150 receives 2021 Great Places Award

The Buffalo News reports that Assembly House 150, a nonprofit art, design and construction incubator and learning center at 150 Edward St., has received the 2021 Great Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association. "We are honored to receive this international recognition," said Dennis Maher, the Assembly House's founder and executive director, who's also an artist and architecture faculty member at UB. "Assembly House is a magical place, where the spirit of a city and its people come together around the act of making and the art of craft," said Robert Shibley, dean of UB's School of Architecture and Planning.​