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Architectural Excellence COTE Awards
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The 2024 AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Design Awards program is accepting submissions through 11:59 pm Thursday, August 8, 2024.
The COTE Awards remains an opt-in program with a separate jury review and assessment. The Framework for Design Excellence Assessment**, the criteria for the awards program, is based on the AIA's Framework for Design Excellence.
The assessment criteria are identical to AIA Philadelphia Design Awards "Framework to Design Excellence Form" required for entry in the AIA Philadelphia Design Awards. If you are a Philadelphia firm participating in the AIA Philadelphia Design Awards or have participated in Philadelphia's Design Awards in previous years and have collected the assessment criteria from the "Framework to Design Excellence Form", we strongly encourage you to transcribe the identical assessment criteria into the state chapter assessment to enter your project in the COTE Awards program.
If you opt to enter your project into the COTE Awards program by completing and uploading the assessment, you will also be required to append the completed framework assessment to the "Digital Project Binder" upload. This will give the Design Awards jury the opportunity to review your project in the context of the framework measures. The assessment pages do not count toward the maximum page count.
Download and review the 2024 Architectural Excellence Design & COTE Awards Call for Submissions before starting your submission(s) for complete details including the submission process and required and optional jury review materials for submission to the Design and COTE Awards programs.
After creating an account and/or logging in to the submission site, applicants will be able to preview and save their submission(s) as they work to complete the submission. Applicants may log back in at any time to complete the submission before the submission cutoff date. Applicants will not be asked to process payment via PayPal until all required fields are complete, the submission has been added to the cart, and the applicant proceeds to checkout.
Please note that before starting your first submission, you must create an account. Subsequent submissions may be logged under the same applicant or different applicant accounts. If you participated in the Architectural Excellence Design, COTE, or Special Awards (2020 onward), the account you created via your e-mail address is still on file and retains your previous submissions/nominations.
If you cannot recall your password, there is a self-service “lost password” feature in the submission/nomination portal. If you cannot recall which e-mail address you or your firm used previously to register an account and manage your submissions/nominations, please reach out to Olivia at operry@aiapa.org or 717.265.3443.
**The assessment will be available for download in the COTE Awards segment of the submission form and on the assessment page of the submission site. Any technical updates to the assessment will be posted in these two locations.