Allison Arlotta, Author at ARO Architecture Research Office

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"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

Yiqing Wang

Stacy Su

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

Photo of the cast iron facade of an empty gallery

BLUM Selects ARO for New Tribeca Gallery

Rendering of families entering a school building

Saint Ann’s School in The Architect’s Newspaper

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

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

Michelle Schneider

Megan Christian

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 in an enclosed courtyard with a glass roof

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, AIA

Farai Matangira

Pace University Announces the Opening of 15 Beekman in Fall 2023

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 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

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

Bucks County Residence in Elle Decor Spain

Mammoth House in Elle Decor Spain

Ericka Song, AIA

Jay Schairbaum

Thom Chiu, AIA

Kim Yao Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

Knoll New York Refresh

Mammoth House in Architectural Record

Dusk view of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape. Credit: James Ewing / JBSA

Olana Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape

Architecture Research Office Collection

Knoll D.C. in Metropolis

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

Dia Chelsea featuring Lucy Raven's Ready Mix installation

2021 AIANY Architecture Honor Award, Dia Chelsea

Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse in Bloomberg CityLab

Knoll D.C. in The Architect’s Newspaper

2021 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design, Knoll D.C.

Dia Chelsea wins Interior Design Best of Year Award

2021 Interior Design Best of Year, Dia Chelsea

Rendering of ARO's reimagined Midtown Office Building for Curbed

ARO’s Reimagined Midtown Office Building in Oculus Magazine

Visitors sitting in the restored Rothko Chapel

2021 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, Rothko Chapel

ARO named one of AN Interior's top 50 architecture firms for 2021

ARO in AN Interior’s Top 50 Architects List for 2021

Knoll D.C. Showroom & Offices

2021 Docomomo US Award of Excellence, Rothko Chapel

Rising Currents in Curbed

ARO team assembling the terra cotta system

V-Soleil

Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center in Bklyner

UWT Milgard Hall in Seattle Daily Commerce

UWT Milgard Hall in the Seattle Daily Commerce Journal

Watch ARO present at the 2021 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop

Rendering of the entrance to 100 Flatbush

100 Flatbush in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

UWT Milgard Hall in the Tacoma News Tribune

Watch – Kim Yao Receives 2021 AIA Medal of Honor

View of Milgard Hall from the Prairie Line Trial by Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA

University of Washington Tacoma, Milgard Hall

UWT Milgard Hall on American Building Podcast

2021 Best Video for Daylight Hour

Bucks County Residence in The Magazine Antiques

Bucks County Residence in Aspire

Rothko Chapel in The Dallas Morning News

Allison Arlotta, Business Strategy + Communications Coordinator

Rothko Chapel in ARCHITECT

Reimagining a Midtown Office Building as Housing

Dia Chelsea in The New Yorker

A Post-Pandemic Vision for City Office Buildings, 2021