Kudos to this year's COTE Top Ten Winners!

Congrats to everyone! Really love this crop of winners. Nice range of project scales, types, and locations. Great to see a couple of adaptive reuse projects, and especially good to see a couple of new firms on the list who I don't think have won before: Olson Kundig and Todd Ray's great DC-based firm, Studio Twenty Seven.   (I don't have the full list of past winners on my laptop, so if I'm mistaken about these firms not having won before, let me know.)  For those keeping count, see attached (crudely updated) spreadsheet with the multiple winners over the years. Lake|Flato now tops the list (again) with a whopping 12 wins in 12 years. (Show-offs.) LMSA and HOK now tie with 10 wins, and, as Nadav mentioned, LMSA won two this year. Double wins have happened only 8 times, and L|F, HOK, and LMSA each have done it twice. Perkins+Will and KieranTimberlake moved up a rung with 5 wins now, and three firms have entered the multiple win chart for the first time: SOM, WRNS, and WRL.  A lot to learn from these amazing projects and the great firms producing them.  Congrats again! Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow

Correction: Lake|Flato has won 11 times, not 12. Slackers!

Thanks! Big congratulations to the other winners (especially LMS who bagged a couple). We're super excited to get our first. 

Congratulations to all the COTE Top 10 honorees!! I’m continually amazed at what this group is able to do to move our practices forward. I look forward to additional analyses of the winning projects, now that it’s all public, to see how far the (vegan) cream of the crop has moved. The winners seem to be still heavily focused on public work. Many of the project descriptions include lots of PV, so I’m assuming a number of them are designed to net-zero; it’s also great to see multiple rehabs in the Top 10. I was a bit puzzled by half of the winners being located in California and am wondering if the criteria or judging skews the winners to mild climates or if CA really is the center of all things sustainable. -Kjell ................................................................. Kjell Anderson AIA, LEED AP Associate Director of Sustainable Design LMN 801 Second Avenue, Suite 501 Seattle, WA 98104 T 206 682 3460 lmnarchitects.com<%20lmnarchitects.com%20> From: V

Congrats all winners!  What an amazing line-up of projects.