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These 11 climate-resilient designs won in the 2025 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition
The future of sustainable architectural design was under the microscope again at this year’s AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition, and the results are in now: Ten winners and one honorable mention were selected in the annual challenge that tasked students to “design projects that use a creative and innovative, thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to provide design solutions that protect and enhance the environment” by “achieving net-zero emissions, adapting to resilient climate impacts, and addressing social and environmental inequities.”
The competition organizers, the American Institute of Architects‘ Committee on the Environment, in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, offered two categories for the first time this year, allowing first-year and second-year students to compete in Category I, and upper-level students in Category II.
Clemson University and the University of Waterloo managed to score wins with two teams each.
Take a look at this year’s winning entries:
CATEGORY I: FOUNDATION LEVEL
De-Clustered, Environmental Middle School in Pittsburgh’s Inner Fringe
