2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards WinnersEach year, COTE Top Ten recognizes 10 projects that integrate design excellence and environmental performance. One winner receives the COTE Top Ten Plus award—an indication of exemplary proven energy performance and post-occupancy results.This year’s winners include 10 government, education, commercial, and community projects across the United States. Gensler received three awards for projects that focus on adaptive reuse and preserving embodied carbon; Lake | Flato received two awards for projects that have a particular focus on community. This year’s COTE Top Ten Plus Award winner is LPA’s Environmental Nature Center and Preschool, in Newport Beach, Calif., which uses innovative siting to connect the surrounding community to nature.Winners 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards |