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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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6/6 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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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

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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 Interior Design Best of the Best Award

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

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

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Drew Powers, AIA Elevated to Associate

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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

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3/13 Project Director Dominic Griffin Presents Brooklyn Passive House Public Schools at Passive House Empire State Chapter Meeting

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

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2/20 Adam Yarinsky Presents Rothko Chapel at Palm Springs Modernism Week

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

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

11/6 Kim Yao Speaks at University of Washington

10/29 ARO Principals Lecture at Syracuse University

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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

“Architecture. Research. Office.” Book Out Now

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10/22 The Center for Architecture Revisits Rising Currents 15 Years Later

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10/10 Webinar “Sharing Sacred Spaces” to Feature Stephen Cassell and CBST

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195 District Pavilion Breaks Ground in Providence

9/24 Kim Yao Speaks at AIA East Tennessee

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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 AN Best of Products, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Rothko Chapel Breaks Ground on Phase II of New Campus

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Providence Food & Beverage Pavilion Receives Final Approval

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

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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

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

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

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Milgard Hall Wins a 2023 DBIA National Award of Merit

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

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

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

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FilzFelt Launches Four New ARO Shingle Products

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

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

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

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

Pace University Announces the Opening of 15 Beekman in Fall 2023

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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

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

University of Washington Tacoma Cuts Ribbon on Milgard Hall

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

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ARO to Design New Park Pavilion in Providence

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