2022 ARCHITECTURAL EXCELLENCE COTE AWARDS
Projects selected for COTE honors have exhibited excellence in the AIA Framework for Design Excellence measures that indicate how buildings perform for the health and wellness of the occupants, communities, and the environment they serve. The jury recognizes projects deemed worthy of recognition with the following levels of distinction.
- The COTE Award of Excellence recognizes a project that demonstrates excellence across several measures of the AIA Framework for Design Excellence.
- Projects selected for a COTE Award are recognized for commendable achievement and/or goals aligning with one or more AIA Framework for Design Excellence measures.
- Projects recognized with a COTE Citation are cited with an honorable mention for achievement and/or goals aligning with one or more of the AIA Framework for Design Excellence measures.
Kinesiology Building
Award: COTE Award of Excellence
Framework Measures Recognized: Design for Resources, Change, Integration, Energy
Architecture Firm: Ballinger and Associate Architect, TMP Architecture, Inc.
Architecture Firm Size: Large (50+ employees/total staff)
Project Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Client: University of Michigan
Primary Use/Type: Education - College/University
Total Project Area: 217,533 sq. ft.
Cost ($USD/sq ft): $392/sq. ft.
Photography credit: Feinknopf Photography
Category: Preservation Architecture
A century ago, when Albert Kahn designed the University of Michigan’s Kraus Building, Kahn met their laboratory needs by adopting the innovations of factory design, aimed at maximizing daylight, to an academic setting. The cutting edge of science has moved on, and today the university’s fourth largest school is kinesiology. The university needed to consolidate the school’s programs, scattered across multiple buildings, into a single home with room for expansion.
Red Clay Passive
Award: COTE Award
Framework Measures Recognized: Design for Energy, Water
Architecture Firm: Bright Common
Architecture Firm Size: Small (2-9 employees/total staff)
Project Location: Kennett Square, PA
Client: -
Primary Use/Type: Residential - Single Family Detached
Total Project Area: 5,340 sq. ft.
Cost ($USD/sq ft): -
Photography credit: Sam Oberter
Category: Single Family Residential
Red Clay Passive considers how a site with a rich cultural past can adapt to a climate-variable future. By prioritizing generational resiliency strategies alongside low embodied and operational carbon, the project investigates how a home can utilize emerging technologies to engage in responsible development while connecting to its vernacular context. The result is a carbon sink – a project that sequesters more carbon than it uses from cradle to gate.
Tonewood Brewing Taproom
Award: COTE Award
Framework Measures Recognized: Design for Integration
Architecture Firm: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Architecture Firm Size: Large (50+ employees/total staff)
Project Location: Barrington, NJ
Client: Tonewood Brewing
Primary Use/Type: Other
Total Project Area: 15,052 sq. ft.
Cost ($USD/sq ft): -
Photography credit: Jeffrey Totaro
Category: Preservation Architecture
Tonewood Brewing Taproom is an adaptive re-use of a 1960s lumber yard in Barrington, New Jersey that creates a state-of-the-art craft beer tasting room and production facility. The project responds to the family-run brewery’s core values of quality, community, and sustainability.
Valdes STEM + Innovation Center
Award: COTE Award
Framework Measures Recognized: Design for Water, Ecosystems, Well-Being
Architecture Firm: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Architecture Firm Size: Large (50+ employees/total staff)
Project Location: Addison, TX
Client: -
Primary Use/Type: Education - K12 School
Total Project Area: 61,400 sq. ft.
Cost ($USD/sq ft): -
Rendering credit: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Category: Un-Built
With its collaborative spaces and dedicated labs for innovation and science, the project will empower a new generation of creative minds at Greenhill. A modular approach to classroom design will ensure spaces can adapt to changing use and technologies. And as a teaching tool, the building will provide tactile opportunities for students to learn about integrated sustainable design through its mass-timber structure, daylight autonomy, rainwater harvesting, and energy conservation.
Philadelphia Contemporary Gallery
Award: COTE Citation
Framework Measures Recognized: Design for Discovery
Architecture Firm: Atkin Olshin Schade Architects
Architecture Firm Size: Midsize (10-49 employees/total staff)
Project Location: Philadelphia, PA
Client: Philadelphia Contemporary
Primary Use/Type: Public Assembly - General
Total Project Area: 20,252 sq. ft.
Cost ($USD/sq ft): -
Rendering credit: Atkin Olshin Schade Architects
Category: Un-Built
Project Partner: The Gallery is supported by BEAM, who served as the project's schematic lighting designer. BEAM creates illuminating spaces to Live, Work, Reflect, Play and Learn. BEAM’s lighting design energizes interiors, enlivens facades and engages with landscapes in a manner that brings thoughtful purpose in its design.
A new permanent home for Philadelphia Contemporary is envisioned as a floating art gallery on the Delaware River between the Cherry and Race Street Piers. The 15,000SF two-story structure will be built on a barge that accommodates a lobby, guest services, galleries, performance spaces, an artists' studio, classroom, offices, and a café. The design of the Floating Gallery reflects a commitment to the site, the natural environment, and community engagement.
Vare Recreation Center
Award: COTE Citation
Framework Measures Recognized: Design for Equitable Communities, Economy
Architecture Firm: Architect of Record, Kramer + Marks Architects, /Design Architect, Ian Smith Design Group
Architecture Firm Size: Large (50+ employees/total staff)/Small (2-9 employees/total staff)
Project Location: Philadelphia, PA
Client: Rebuild, City of Philadelphia
Primary Use/Type: Public Assembly - Recreation
Total Project Area: 158,000 sq. ft.
Cost ($USD/sq ft): -
Rendering credit: Ian Smith Design Group and Kirk Fromm Design & Illustration
Category: Un-Built
Improvement design that encompasses a full city block for indoor and outdoor municipal neighborhood recreation space in a historically dis-invested and underserved African American community in South Philadelphia, PA.