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Man walking in front of a historic greenhouse structure.

4/19 The Green-House at Green-Wood Opens to the Public

Architecture Research Office Series Light Pendants. White pendant lamps on a gray background.

Cooper Lighting: Architecture Research Office Decorative Pendants

Woman walking down a staircase wrapped in orange felt

Knoll New York in Interior Design

Kids running in front of a silver and blue school building

3/5 Kim Yao Lectures at Cornell AAP

Woman wearing black standing against a white wall

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

Colorful table and chairs in an orange room

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

Woman and man standing in a mass timber lobby

Olana Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape Recognized as 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

Man in a blue shirt sits against a gray backdrop.

Drew Powers, AIA Elevated to Associate

12/2 Kim Yao Discusses Inclusive Design and All-Gender Restrooms

11/15 Kim Yao Joins Center for Architecture Panel on Risk

Man wearing black standing against a gray wall

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

Planted entry court in front of a terra cotta building and a historic greenhouse.

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

Rendering of a people gathering at an elevated dockhosue

79th Street Boat Basin Dockhouse in Oculus

ARO in AN Interior Top 50 for 2025

Man walks on the sidewalk in front of a greenhouse

10/18 Tour the New Green-House at Green-Wood with Open House New York

Woman stands in front of large window looking out to a greenhouse.

10/10 Green-House at Green-Wood is Archtober’s Building of the Day

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

A woman and two men sit and stand in front of a white background

ARO Principals Elected to the National Academy of Design

Rendering of a metal dockhouse on a river with a woman running by

79th Street Boat Basin Dockhouse in Architect’s Newspaper

Red, one-story building with woods in the background and planted landscape in the foreground.

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

Photo of a man in a blue suit standing in front of a white background

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

9/10 Kim Yao Lectures at Oklahoma State University

Informational graphic for 2025 AIA Tennessee Conferences in Nashville

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

Close up detail photograph of green-glazed terra cotta brise soleil system

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

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

Graphic describing book conversation, with two headshots of presenters and book cover on purple background

4/9 Stephen Cassell Moderates Discussion about “Sponge Park: Gowanus Canal” Book at Housing Works, Organized by MAS

Photograph of a panel of 6 speakers onstage

3/27 Kim Yao Facilitates a Panel on “Scaling Circularity” at Grace Farms’ 4th Annual Design for Freedom Summit

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

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

Photo of signed beam being ceremonially placed on top of building structure

2/28 Rice Business School Building Tops Out with Beam-Signing Ceremony

“Architecture. Research. Office.” in Bookforum

Blue background with graphic text reading "New Practices New York 2025 VOICE"

Kim Yao Serves on Jury for AIANY 2025 New Practices New York Competition

The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Oculus

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

"Architecture. Research. Office." book on white background

“Architecture. Research. Office.” in The Dallas Morning News

Living room interior. Copyright Frank Frances.

Fifth Avenue Apartment

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

2/10 Stephen Cassell Lectures at UT Austin School of Architecture

Back to Basics: Y Stool

Rothko Chapel in The Architect’s Newspaper

“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*

Watch – Adam Yarinsky and Dominic Griffin Interviewed about Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools for Reuters

Places Journal, Field Notes on Repair: 5, 2024

12/6 Visit ARO’s Brooklyn Studio for the Architecture League’s First Friday

The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in the New York Times

Adam Yarinsky Featured in UVA’s Alum in Action

11/6 Kim Yao Speaks at University of Washington

ARO in Forbes’ Top 200 Residential Architects for 2025

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

Watch – Stephen Cassell Presents at Georgia Tech

Watch – Kim Yao Delivers the 2024 Cornell Goldsmith Lecture

Photograph of interior hallway of mass timber building surrounded by grey graphic frame with caption "AN Interior Top 50"

ARO in AN Interior Top 50 for 2024

“Architecture. Research. Office.” (2024)

“Architecture. Research. Office.” Book Out Now

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

9/24 Kim Yao Speaks at AIA East Tennessee

Kim Yao Interviewed by Cornell AAP

Photograph of student looking at exhibition of drawings in lobby

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

Blue background with blocky black graphic text

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

Y Stool Receives Honorable Mention in AN Best of Products, 2024

Rendering of a marina dockhouse on the water

79th St Boat Basin Dockhouse in the Commercial Observer

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

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

"I Would Prefer Not To" on a purple background

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

79th Street Boat Basin Dockhouse

Photo of Khalil Gibran International Academy under construction

6/20 Dominic Griffin Presents Khalil Gibran International Academy and PS 456 at the Passive House Network Schools Symposium

Photograph of a brise soleil made up of interlocking terra cotta units

Stephen Cassell Discusses V-Soleil and ACAW on Facade Tectonics’ SKINS Podcast

View of rear facade of the Mellon Foundation facade from the back garden. (c) Devon Banks

Mellon Foundation Headquarters

Rendering of students in a kindergarten classroom at Saint Ann's School

Healthy Materials at Saint Ann’s School in The Architect’s Newspaper

Rendering of the faceted brick facade of the new building for Rice Business

New Rice Business School Building in The Architect’s Newspaper

Photograph of Rice University officials shoveling dirt for groundbreaking

Rice University Breaks Ground on New ARO-Designed Business School Building

Photograph of two people sitting under a skylight looking at large paintings.

5/21 Adam Yarinsky Joins NYCxDesign Panel on Light as Architecture

Photo of people working at desks in an office

5/16 Visit ARO’s Brooklyn Studio With AIANY Women in Architecture Committee

Rendering of students and parents in front of a school building.

5/15 Stephen Cassell Speaks at NYSAIS Facilities and Operations Conference

Y Stool

Rendering of new Rice Business building by ARO

Rice University School of Business

Rendering of the Rothko Chapel's new North Campus

Rothko Chapel Breaks Ground on Phase II of New Campus

Rothko Chapel’s New Campus Phase II in Houston Chronicle

Photograph of new public school building under construction in Downtown Brooklyn

Khalil Gibran International Academy and PS 456 in The New York Times

Photo of a four people sitting and working at a table surrounded by views of a city

The Architect’s Newspaper Visits ARO’s New Brooklyn Office

Rendering of families entering a school building

Saint Ann’s School in The Architect’s Newspaper

Rendering of students and parents in front of a limestone building

Saint Ann’s School

Photograph of a toddler and two adult teachers in a playroom

Barnard College CSCD in Buildings Magazine

Rendering of a one-story building in a park setting

Providence Food & Beverage Pavilion Receives Final Approval

Portrait of Stephen Cassell against a gray backdrop

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

Photo of an open doorway revealing a person walking in front of a chalk wall

ARO Office

Rendering of renovated school building on Floy Bennett Field

Launch School on CBS New York

Portrait of Adam Yarinsky against a white background

12/5 Adam Yarinsky Presents ARO Case Study at Housing Opportunity Conference

Photo of people walking in and out of a 3-story brick building, and sitting on entry steps

Milgard Hall in Architectural Record

Photo of Kim Yao against a white background

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

10/27 Visit 15 Beekman at Pace University, Archtober’s Building of the Day

Rednering of people standing in a multipurpose room with a high table and chairs and a library

10/21 Visit ARO’s New Studio in Downtown Brooklyn During OHNY Weekend

ARO in AN Interior Top 50 for 2023

Photograph of Adam Yarinsky against a white background

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

Photo of students sitting and walking around a large ground-floor lobby

Pace University Cuts the Ribbon on 15 Beekman

Rendering of the primary school entrance at 100 Flatbush

100 Flatbush in Bloomberg Citylab

Photograph of Dominic Griffin against a gray backdrop

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

Portrait of Megumi Tamanaha against a gray background

Megumi Tamanaha Included in 2024 AIA Gold Medal Advisory Jury

Portrait of Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky against a white background

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

Portrait of Kim Yao standing in front of a white background

9/29 Kim Yao Delivers Keynote at AIA Dallas Empowering Conference

Photo of people entering and exiting Milgard Hall

Milgard Hall Wins a 2023 DBIA National Award of Merit

Portrait of a woman against a gray background

Nida Ekenel

Photo of two toddlers playing on a slide

Barnard College CSCD, 100 Flatbush Public Schools, and Launch School in Oculus

Portrait of of a woman against a gray background

7/31 Kim Yao Presents the University of Washington Tacoma’s Milgard Hall at SCUP 2023

Sofia Balters, AIA

Rendering of the entry to the primary school at 100 Flatbush

7/19 ARO and Alloy Join the Urban Design Forum for a Tour of the Alloy Block

Rendering of the new Welcome and Education Center at Green-Wood Cemetery, with the historic greenhouse in the foreground

The Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center in Commercial Observer

Rendering of people walking through the entrance to the new Education and Welcome Center at Green-Wood Cemetery

The Green-Wood Cemetery Breaks Ground on New Education and Welcome Center

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

FilzFelt Launches Four New ARO Shingle Products

FilzFelt Goes Behind the Design for ARO Shingle

Photograph of seven officials sitting in front of historic Weir Greenhouse.

The Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center Groundbreaking on News12

Rendering of the new Education and Welcome Center with burgundy terra cotta facade, surround historic Weir Green-House

The Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center in The New York Times

Photo people entering Congregation Beit Simchat Torah from the street

6/20 Stephen Cassell Leads Tour of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah for The Architectural League’s Annual Meeting

Daylight Hour

Social Equity Group – Progress Update

ARO Architecture Research Office ILFI Just Label

ARO an ILFI Just Organization

5/25 Megumi Tamanaha Joins NYCxDesign Panel on Designing for the Future of Work

Aerial rendering of the full Launch School campus

Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School on Pix11 News

Aerial rendering of Floyd Bennett Field and new campus for Launch School.

Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School

Photo of two people looking at material samples in a daylit office

Materials Working Group

Paper

Research at ARO

Timber

Terra Cotta

Close-up photo of glass fiber reinforced gypsum ceiling with integrated lighting

Precast Panels

Felt

Rendering of people sitting at tables in an enclosed courtyard

Harvard Medical School, West Commons

Flyer for Building HueSpaces Panel: The Legacy of Black Communities Built and Sustained

5/11 Kim Yao Joins Museum Hue for Building HueSpaces Panel

Ruso Margishvili

Pace University Announces the Opening of 15 Beekman in Fall 2023

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 six Y Stools assembled in a round

Adam Yarinsky’s Y Stool in Curbed

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

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

Photograph of a felt-wrapped meeting pod at Casper Headquarters

Casper Headquarters named one of Office Snapshot’s 25 Most Popular Offices

Rendering of the landscaped entrance to the Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center

The Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center in ARCHITECT

Rendering of the interior of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, showing the mass timber structure

Olana Frederic Church Center in The Art Newspaper

Rendering of the landscaped terrace at the new Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape

Olana Frederic Church Center in The Architect’s Newspaper

Rendering of the interior of UWT's Milgard Hall, showing mass timber construction

UWT Milgard Hall in Tacoma Weekly

University of Washington leaders cut the ribbon on Milgard Hall, inside the new HIPs space

University of Washington Tacoma Cuts Ribbon on Milgard Hall

Rendering of Rising Currents, ARO's proposal for green infrastructure for Lower Manhattan

Rising Currents on the Cover of EDF’s Solutions

Constructs, Making Houston Modern Review, 2021

Places Journal, Field Notes on Design Activism: I, 2022

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

ARO Wins the Pritzker Pumpkin at the 6th Annual Pumpkitecture

Rendering of the entrance to the new Frederic Church Center at Olana State Historic Park

ARO Mass Timber Projects in The Architect’s Newspaper

Photo of the Chicken Coop with drawer dropped down

Chicken Coop in Dwell

Rendering of the schools at 100 Flatbush

100 Flatbush in New York YIMBY

ARO in AN Interior Top 50 Architects for 2022

Two ARO Projects in The Architect’s Newspaper Mass Timber Special Section

Rendering of the Flatbush Avenue facade of 100 Flatbush

Adam Yarinksy in InsideHook

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

V-Soleil in ARCHITECT

Casper Headquarters in Office Snapshots

Group photo of Architecture Research Office

ARO in Architectural Record

Rendering of the interior of the new Education and Welcome Center, looking towards the historic greenhouse

Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center in Brooklyn Paper

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

Rendering of the entry to the new Welcome & Education Center at Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center in The Architect’s Newspaper

Rendering of the Frederic Church Center at Olana

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

Luke Winata

Maeliosa Barstow

Elizabeth Levy

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

Photo of a Dan Flavin installation at the entry of Dia Chelsea

Dia Chelsea in Robb Report

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

Annual Day of Action

View of the front desk in the felt-wrapped lobby of Casper Headquarter

Casper Headquarters in Interior Design

View of the entry lobby at Casper's Headquarters, wrapped in ARO Plank

Casper Headquarters in AN Interior

Providence Park Pavilion

View of Downtown Providence and the Providence River

ARO to Design New Park Pavilion in Providence

Section drawings of a traditional dumpling and ARO's improved dumpling

Building a Better Dumpling

Dia Chelsea featuring the inaugural exhibit - Ready Mix by Lucy Raven

Dia Chelsea in Oculus Magazine

Rendering of the primary school at 100 Flatbush from State Street

100 Flatbush in New York YIMBY

2022 Residential Design Architecture Awards Citation, Bucks County Residence

Sketches of American Headquarters of Alexis Lichine & Co

SOM Fellowship, The Single Building as Urban Intervention, 1985

2022 Preservation Houston Martha Peterson Award, Rothko Chapel