The 10 recipients of this year’s AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Awards, announced today, range from a modern library in a Phoenix suburb to a spacious student affairs center at Tulane University in New Orleans. The committee selected the winners—each one an example excellence in sustainable design—from a pool of roughly 100 entries. According to an AIA press release, the jurors looked for projects that “make a positive contribution to their communities, improve comfort for building occupants, and reduce environmental impacts.” A list of the award winners follows below; look for complete coverage in the July 2008 issue of RECORD’s sister publication GreenSource.

Serving on this year’s jury were: Glenn Murcutt, Hon. FAIA, of Glenn Murcutt Architecture; Jason McLennan, AIA, CEO of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council; Susan T. Rodriguez, FAIA, of Polshek Partnership Architects; Gail Brager, PhD, a professor at University of California at Berkeley; Marvin Malecha, FAIA, 2009 president elect of the AIA and dean of the College of Design at North Carolina State University; and Rebecca Henn, AIA, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. The AIA will present the awards in May at its 2008 national convention in Boston.

AIA 2008 COTE Award Winners   Photo courtesy American Institute of Architects       Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery New Haven, Connecticut KieranTimberlake Associates Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center New York, New York BKSK Architects The Nueva School, Hillside Learning Complex Hillsborough, California Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects Macallen Building Condominiums Boston, Massachusetts Burt Hill Lavin-Bernick Center New Orleans, Louisiana VJAA Garthwaite Center for Science and Art, Cambridge School of Weston Weston, Massachusetts Architerra Environmental Education/Visitor Activity Center Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Discovery Center at South Lake Union Seattle, Washington The Miller/Hull Partnership Cesar Chavez Library Laveen, Arizona Line and Space Aldo Leopold Legacy Center Baraboo, Wisconsin Architects