Firms recognized this year for superlatively sustainable projects across a range of typologies include SmithGroup, Mithun, Lake|Flato, and Behnisch Architekten.
This year's honorees range from a public works building in Iowa City to the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans to a new school and library complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ZGF’s Federal Center South Building 1202 in Seattle, is the recipient of this year’s COTE Top Ten +—an award that recognizes one past Top Ten winner that has quantifiable metrics. The project, which provides office space for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is performing more than 30 percent better than ASHRAE 90.1. On Earth Day, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the winners of Committee on the Environment (COTE) awards. The goal of the program, now in its 19th year, is to recognize ten projects that protect and enhance the environment. For the third year in a row,