2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards

Setting the standard in design and sustainability

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Oregon Zoo Education Center

The 2019 COTE® Top Ten program highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. The COTE® Top Ten Plus designation denotes projects with exemplary performance data and post occupancy lessons.

To view previous recipients since 2017, visit the award program page. For program years prior to 2017, visit aiatopten.org.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Amherst College New Science Center

The Amherst College Science Center provides state-of-the-art facilities while reducing energy usage by 76 percent

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Asilong Christian High School

This is the story of a community imagining a different future for itself, by enhancing educational opportunities for the primary school graduates.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Daniels Building at One Spadina Crescent

The renovation and expansion of One Spadina Crescent for the University of Toronto’s school of architecture embodies a holistic approach to sustainable design.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Frick Environmental Center

The building and its four-acre site act as a gateway to Pittsburgh’s wooded 644-acre Frick Park and embody the neighborhood-to-nature ideal

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex

This cutting-edge facility is a major expansion of research at Northeastern University and provides a 234,000 sf home for four interdisciplinary disciplines

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Lakeside Senior Apartments

The building provides 92 permanently affordable homes for low-income and special-needs, formerly homeless seniors.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

North Transfer Station

To reach its zero-waste goal, Seattle needed a more efficient transfer station than the 1960s-era facility that stood on the site.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Oregon Zoo Education Center

The center—the fifth project funded by the zoo bond—provides a home base for thousands of children who participate in camps and classes.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

St. Patrick's Cathedral

The 21st-century renovation of St. Patrick’s Cathedral achieved a 29 percent reduction in annual energy use and stabilized significant historic fabric.

2019 COTE® Top Ten

Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center

Located on a previously abandoned farm site at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, the Bee Center is the first building of a new sustainable education campus

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Christian Columbres Photographer