TOP Ten Green Buildings: Ahead of Time

On Earth Day, April 22, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the winners of the 2019 COTE Top Ten Awards, which are conferred by AIA’s Committee on the Environment. Each year, the program recognizes 10 projects that integrate design excellence and environmental performance, with one winner being elevated to COTE Top Ten Plus—an indication of exemplary proven energy performance and post-occupancy lessons.

The 2019 winners include eight projects in the United States—ranging from a zoo education center, to university lab buildings, to a waste transfer station, to a famed New York cathedral—as well as a university building in Canada and a high school in Kenya.

Among these projects is the reconstruction of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, which has to be spoken with bitter irony, according to Nadav Malin, President of BuildingGreen, in celebrating a sustainable design award for the renovation of a major cathedral a mere week after Notre-Dame de Paris was devastated by a fire that was started, according to initial reports, by renovation activities. However, this is an invaluable experience that can be used in the restoration of one of the main symbols of the French capital.

 Materials provided by The American Institute of Architects

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