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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
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
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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
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Watch – Kim Yao Discusses Inclusive Design and All-Gender Restrooms
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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
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79th Street Boat Basin Dockhouse Recognized with Public Design Commission Award
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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“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
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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
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Watch – Kim Yao and Stephen Cassell join MIT’s Ahmad Tehrani Symposium
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Pace University Cuts the Ribbon on 15 Beekman
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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
Rendering of ARO Grid 5
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
Portrait of Kim Yao
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
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ARO Selected for the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program
ARO assembles a terra cotta sunshade
Watch ARO present at the 2021 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop
AIA 2021 Honors & Awards Luncheon
Watch – Kim Yao Receives 2021 AIA Medal of Honor
ARO wins Best Video for Daylight Hour
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
ARO Pumpkitecture Zoom Haunting
Pumpkitecture
Kim Yao Cindy Allen DesignBiz
Watch – Kim Yao goes live on Instagram with Interior Design’s Cindy Allen
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Watch – Neighborhoods Now Summit
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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