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People walk into a new burgundy, terra cotta-clad building next to a historic greenhouse

The Green-House at Green-Wood an Honorable Mention in The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design

11/5 Kim Yao and Neil Patel Lecture at Rhode Island School of Design

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10/20 Stephen Cassell Joins Greenbuild Panel on “Aesthetics of Electrification”

Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools Recognized with Metropolis Planet Positive Award

Watch – Stephen Cassell Discusses the New Virani Hall with Rice Business

People walk in front of a restored historic greenhouse and burgundy terra cotta-clad visitor's center.

10/16 Tour the Green-House at Green-Wood as Archtober’s Building of the Day

Listen – Adam Yarinsky and Kim Yao Featured on Issued for Construction Podcast

People walking towards a historic greenhouse and a new burgundy terra cotta-clad visitors center.

6/25 Tour the Green-House at Green-Wood with the Urban Design Forum and ARO Principals Kim Yao and Stephen Cassell

Aerial view of a forested landscape in autumn.

6/6 Visit Olana and the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape During the Cultural Landscape Foundation’s “What’s Out There Weekend”

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The Green-House at Green-Wood Wins a 2026 NYCxDesign Award

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Olana Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape Wins the AIA New York State Excelsior Award

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6/5 Tour Pace University’s 15 Beekman Street During SCUP’s “Pace Reimagined” Symposium

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5/14 Adam Yarinsky Joins AIA Brooklyn’s “Ask Me Anything” on Leadership

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4/21 195 District Park Cuts the Ribbon on New Food and Beverage Pavilion in Providence

Man walking in front of a historic greenhouse structure.

4/18 and 4/19 The Green-House at Green-Wood’s Public Opening

Kids running in front of a silver and blue school building

3/5 Kim Yao Lectures at Cornell AAP

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1/26 Kim Yao Discusses Architecture in a Time of Polarities at the Center for Architecture

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Knoll New York Flagship Wins 2025 Interior Design Best of the Best Award

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Olana Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape Recognized as 2025 Interior Design Best of Year Honoree

A tall tower, a school building, and a historic brick building at a busy intersection.

Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools Awarded Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Editor’s Pick

Watch – Kim Yao Discusses Inclusive Design and All-Gender Restrooms

Watch – Kim Yao Joins Center for Architecture Panel on Risk

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11/5 Stephen Cassell Presents “Architecture. Research. Office.” at Roger Williams University

Rendering of people running and walking by a gray metal dockhouse on the water

79th Street Boat Basin Dockhouse Recognized with Public Design Commission Award

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Listen – Stephen Cassell Shares the Green-House at Green-Wood on the American Building Podcast

Watch – Kim Yao and Stephen Cassell Discuss Bucks County Residence with Forbes

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ARO Principals Elected to the National Academy of Design

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9/30 ARO and NBW Discuss Interdisciplinary Collaboration with AIA Dallas

9/30 Kim Yao Presents ARO’s Mass Timber Projects with AIA Westchester + Hudson Valley

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9/22 Adam Yarinsky Presents “Architecture. Research. Office.” at UVA School of Architecture

9/10 Kim Yao Lectures at Oklahoma State University

Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools Recognized as NYCxDesign Early Education Project Honoree

Listen – Adam Yarinsky Interviewed by Second Studio Podcast

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V-Soleil Exhibit on View at MIT Architecture’s Keller Gallery through September 2025

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Watch – Madame Architect Presents: Dia’s Jessica Morgan with Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky at Dia Chelsea

ARO Principals Share Advice for Success in “Tips from the Top”, Published by Chronicle Books/Princeton Architectural Press, Out Now

Watch – Business Strategy + Communications Director Angela Estevez and Principal Adam Yarinsky in Conversation with Book Designer Miko McGinty at 192 Books in Chelsea

Listen – ARO Principals Featured on U.S. Modernist Radio Podcast

10/29 ARO Principals Lecture at Syracuse University

Group of people at ribbon cutting ceremony for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape

Governor Hochul Cuts Ribbon at the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape

Watch – Stephen Cassell Presents at Georgia Tech

Watch – Kim Yao Delivers the 2024 Cornell Goldsmith Lecture

“Architecture. Research. Office.” Book Out Now

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Nippert Stadium Featured in Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art Exhibition at Harvard GSD

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ARO Featured in Built By New York Exhibition at AIANY Center for Architecture

Y Stool Receives Honorable Mention in 2024 AN Best of Products

Architecture Research Office book "Architecture. Research. Office." designed by Miko McGinty Published by DelMonico D.A.P. Artbook

“Architecture. Research. Office.” (October 2024)

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Listen – Ana Miljački Speaks with ARO for I Would Prefer Not To Podcast

Rendering of the Rothko Chapel's new North Campus

Rothko Chapel Breaks Ground on Phase II of New Campus

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Watch – Stephen Cassell Speaks with Maria Claudia Clemente for the American Academy in Rome’s “Talking Architecture” Series

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Watch – Kim Yao Lectures on “Inquiry + Intuition” at the University of Miami School of Architecture

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Watch – Adam Yarinsky Lectures on “Art, Architecture, and Place” at the American Academy in Rome

Portrait of Stephen Cassell and Kim Yao against a gray backdrop

Watch – Kim Yao and Stephen Cassell join MIT’s Ahmad Tehrani Symposium

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Pace University Cuts the Ribbon on 15 Beekman

Photograph of Dominic Griffin against a gray backdrop

Watch – Dominic Griffin Presents Flatbush Ave Primary and High School at 2023 Passive House Network Conference

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Megumi Tamanaha Included in 2024 AIA Gold Medal Advisory Jury

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Adam Yarinsky and Stephen Cassell Announced as American Academy in Rome Residents for Fall / Winter 2023

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Milgard Hall Wins a 2023 DBIA National Award of Merit

Rendering of ARO Shingle wall covering in blue, with table and chairs in the foreground

FilzFelt Launches Four New ARO Shingle Products

Student researcher reading with toddlers in the new Barnard Center for the Study of Child Development

Barnard Center for the Study of Child Development Opens

FilzFelt Launches ARO Grid 5 and ARO Grid 6

Photo of Walter De Maria's landmark installation The Broken Kilometer

The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer Reopen Following ARO Conservation

ARO's Pumpkitecture tream poses with their winning pumpkin in matching tie-dye shirts

ARO Wins the Pritzker Pumpkin at the 6th Annual Pumpkitecture

Watch – Kim Yao and Megumi Tamanaha join Monograph’s Best Practice series

Christine Nasir, AIA and Dominic Griffin, AIA CPHD Elevated to ARO Project Directors

Rendering of the Frederic Church Center at Olana

Watch – Adam Yarinsky on Carbon Neutrality and the Olana Frederic Church Center

ARO Principals Stephen Cassell, Kim Yao, and Adam Yarinsky at the 2022 AIA Conference on Architecture

ARO Honored for 2020 Firm Award at AIA Conference on Architecture

Group picture of ARO team members at GrowNYC's Governor' Island Teaching Garden

Annual Day of Action

Kim Yao Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

John Flavin artwork on display at Dia Chelsea

Watch – ARO Joins AIANY Panel: Dia Chelsea Engaging Art and Architecture

ARO Selected for the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program

Watch ARO present at the 2021 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop

Watch – Kim Yao Receives 2021 AIA Medal of Honor

2021 Best Video for Daylight Hour

Watch – Stephen Cassell with BE-Ex presents Reimagining Midcentury Office Buildings to House the Future

Rothko Chapel at 50 Design Team Anniversary Lecture

Watch Adam Yarinsky and Team Present the Rothko Chapel

Watch a Replay of The Glass House conversation on the Rothko Chapel

2020 AIA Firm Award, ARCHITECT Interview

Pumpkitecture

Watch – Kim Yao goes live on Instagram with Interior Design’s Cindy Allen

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Watch – Neighborhoods Now Summit

Supporting Black Lives and Dismantling Injustice

Architecture Research Office ARO signatory of Architects Declare

ARO Signatory of U.S. Architects Declare

ARO named 2020 AIA Architecture Firm Award Winner

Kim Yao the new 2020 AIANY President

Rendering of Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools

Watch – The Team Presents Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools at Building Energy Exchange Archtober 2019

ARO 25th Anniversary

2016 Mad Engineers Prize at the 1st Annual Pumpkitecture