“Seattle-based projects shone bright this year in the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE)’s annual Top Ten Awards, with a climate-sensitive maritime education facility, the University of Washington’s first fully mass timber structure, and a new building at a K-12 day school that ranks as the largest Passive House academic project in the Western United States all being recognized for sustainable design excellence. Now in its 28th year, the COTE Top Ten Awards, which showcases buildings that set a high bar for “social, economic, and ecological value” were announced along with a slew of other project-based honors—the Healthcare Awards, Housing Awards, Small Project Awards, the AIA/ALA Library Building Awards, and the multi-typology Architecture Awards among them—during an awards gala held during this year’s AIA Conference on Architecture and Design in Boston.”
— Matt Hickman

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