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8/6 Kim Yao Delivers Keynote at AIA Tennessee Conference in Nashville, TN
Panel presentation at the AIANY Center for Architecture
6/25 AROers Share Insights on Practice at the Center for Architecture, Hosted by the Emerging New York Architects Committee
Multipurpose room in mass timber visitor's center
6/14 Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky Join Panel Discussion at Olana in Hudson, NY
Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools Recognized as NYCxDesign Early Education Project Honoree
Listen – Adam Yarinsky Interviewed by Second Studio Podcast
Rendering of commercial office building reimagined as housing
Reimagined Midtown Offices for Housing in Elle Decor
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V-Soleil Exhibit on View at MIT Architecture’s Keller Gallery through September 2025
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ARO Office in Architectural Record
Photo of 4 people on stage in discussion. Photo credit: Don Stahl.
Watch – Madame Architect Presents: Dia’s Jessica Morgan with Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky at Dia Chelsea
Photo of rainbow play roof on the cover of Metropolis magazine. Credit: James Ewing / JBSA
Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools on the cover of Metropolis
Dusk view of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape. Credit: James Ewing / JBSA
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Think Wood
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4/9 Stephen Cassell Moderates Discussion about “Sponge Park: Gowanus Canal” Book at Housing Works, Organized by MAS
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3/27 Kim Yao Facilitates a Panel on “Scaling Circularity” at Grace Farms’ 4th Annual Design for Freedom Summit
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ARO Principals Share Advice for Success in “Tips from the Top”, Published by Chronicle Books/Princeton Architectural Press, Out Now
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Watch – Business Strategy + Communications Director Angela Estevez and Principal Adam Yarinsky in Conversation with Book Designer Miko McGinty at 192 Books in Chelsea
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Listen – ARO Principals Featured on U.S. Modernist Radio Podcast
Interior view of the lobby of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape. Credit: James Ewing / JBSA. Logo of the Architect's Newspaper in the upper left corner.
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in the Architect’s Newspaper
Photography of children play roof with rainbow flooring
3/13 Project Director Dominic Griffin Presents Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools at Passive House Empire State Chapter Meeting
Grid of images of buildings by different architects
3/8 Stephen Cassell Joins Architectural League Alumni for an Intergenerational Conversation at Rice University
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2/28 Rice Business School Building Tops Out with Beam-Signing Ceremony
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“Architecture. Research. Office.” in Bookforum
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Kim Yao Serves on Jury for AIANY 2025 New Practices New York Competition
Dusk view of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape. Credit: James Ewing / JBSA. White Oculus logo in upper left corner.
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Oculus
Interior photo of gymnatorium with elementary students playing with rainbow parachute. Photo by James Ewing / JBSA. White logo of Bloomberg CityLab in upper left corner.
Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools in Bloomberg CityLab
Exterior photo of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape. Photo by Nick Hubbard.
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in The Spaces
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“Architecture. Research. Office.” in The Dallas Morning News
Living room interior. Copyright Frank Frances.
Fifth Avenue Apartment
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Fifth Avenue Apartment in AN Interior
Photo aerial of the Rothko Chapel and Broken Obelisk
2/20 Adam Yarinsky Presents Rothko Chapel at Palm Springs Modernism Week
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2/10 Stephen Cassell Lectures at UT Austin School of Architecture
Back to Basics: Y Stool
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Rothko Chapel in The Architect’s Newspaper
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“Architecture. Research. Office.” is an Architectural Record Editor’s Book Pick for the 2024 Holiday Season
ARO Office in The Architect’s Newspaper
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Architectural Record
2024 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Editor’s Pick, ARO Office
Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools in The Architect’s Newspaper
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Wallpaper*
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Watch – Adam Yarinsky and Dominic Griffin Interviewed about Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools for Reuters
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Places Journal, Field Notes on Repair: 5, 2024
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12/6 Visit ARO’s Brooklyn Studio for the Architecture League’s First Friday
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The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in the New York Times
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Adam Yarinsky Featured in UVA’s Alum in Action
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11/6 Kim Yao Speaks at University of Washington
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ARO in Forbes’ Top 200 Residential Architects for 2025
Photo of ARO Principals (Kim Yao, Stephen Cassell, and Adam Yarinsky) with the logo for Syracuse Architecture in the top left corner
10/29 ARO Principals Lecture at Syracuse University
Group of people at ribbon cutting ceremony for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape
10/25 Governor Hochul Cuts Ribbon at the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape
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Watch – Stephen Cassell Presents at Georgia Tech
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Watch – Kim Yao Delivers the 2024 Cornell Goldsmith Lecture
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ARO in AN Interior Top 50 for 2024
A rendering of Lower Manhattan covered with “soft” infrastructure alternatives sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology
10/22 The Center for Architecture Revisits Rising Currents 15 Years Later
Photograph of street elevation of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah at night
10/10 Webinar “Sharing Sacred Spaces” to Feature Stephen Cassell and CBST
Aerial photo of construction site at groundbreaking event
195 District Pavilion Breaks Ground in Providence
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9/24 Kim Yao Speaks at AIA East Tennessee
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Kim Yao Interviewed by Cornell AAP
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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
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Y Stool Receives Honorable Mention in AN Best of Products, 2024
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79th St Boat Basin Dockhouse in the Commercial Observer
Rendering of Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools
Watch – The Team Presents Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools at Building Energy Exchange Archtober 2019