Architecture Design
The Architecture Design Award is given to an individual or firm for exceptional and exemplary work in public, commercial, or residential architectural design.
Winner: Architecture Research Office
Architecture Research Office is a New York–based firm led by Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky, and Kim Yao. Its work spans from strategic planning to architecture and urban design. Since 1993, the firm has worked with leading universities, cultural institutions, global corporations, government agencies, international fashion labels, and nonprofit organizations, utilizing research and analysis to drive the design. From a prototype for thousand-square-foot low-income sustainable housing to a proposal to reinvent the role of ecology and infrastructure in New York City, ARO uses design to unite the conceptual and the pragmatic within a strong, coherent vision.
Finalists
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| Dan Rockhill | Weiss/Manfredi |







