Award Editions Frontend Portlet
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179 European cities in favour of public space Presentation of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018
award-results Portlet
Renovation of Skanderbeg Square
Tirana (Albania), 2017
The main square of Tirana has been renovated with multi-coloured paving made with stones from different parts of the country.
Developer: Bashkia Tiranë - Qeveria e Shqiperise
Authors: 51N4E
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Cuyperspassage
Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2016
A new underground tunnel, more than a hundred metres long and decorated with Delft Blue tiles representing fragments of Dutch naval history, provides cyclists and pedestrians with a connection from the old city centre to quays on the IJ River waterfront.
Developer: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Infrastructuur Verkeer en Vervoer
Authors: Benthem Crouwel Architects, Irma Bloom
Poblenou "Superblock"
Barcelona (Spain), 2017
A series of tactical urbanism operations has pedestrianised a "superblock"—nine blocks in the grid-designed Eixample district—in a pilot test of a future large-scale strategy for reclaiming public space from private vehicles and making it available for public transport, bicycles and pedestrians.
Developer: Ajuntament de Barcelona
Authors: Area d'Ecologia, Urbanisme i Mobilitat. Ajuntament de Barcelona
Dnipro (Ukraine), 2017
Several cultural groups of musicians, poets, and visual artists organise to carry out a temporary renovation of a Stalinist-era amphitheatre in the city's central park by means of crowdfunding, collaborative design, and "self-construction" teamwork.
Developer: NGO Kultura Medialna and citizens of Dnipro
Authors: STAGE : СЦЕНА community
Zollverein Park
Essen (Germany), 2019
After two decades of work, an old mining operation which was closed at the end of the twentieth century and subsequently declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site is now a large park combining industrial archaeology, green landscape, leisure installations, and cultural facilities.
Developer: Stiftung Zollverein
Authors: Planergruppe GmbH Oberhausen
PC Caritas
Melle (Belgium), 2016
Somewhere between a closed building and open space, an old psychiatric hospital pavilion has been partially saved from demolition to offer a peaceful refuge for patients, their families, and people walking in the public park surrounding it.
Developer: KARUS
Authors: architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, BAVO
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Street Square
A series of terraces introduced in a sloping hillside street provides accessible public spaces for the small houses of a former informal neighbourhood built on the top of the Turó de la Rovira.
Authors: bosch.capdeferro arquitectura
Play Landscape "be-MINE"
Beringen (Belgium), 2016
A landscape restoration project, including several play areas, of a rubble mountain on the largest coal-mining site in Flanders has created a landmark commemorating the industrial past of the place.
Developer: Municipality of Beringen
Authors: Carve, OMGEVING landscape architecture and urbanism
I'm a monument!
Berlin (Germany), 2017
One of the many vacant spaces resulting from major changes in the Postblock zone after the fall of the Berlin Wall has temporarily been endowed with new senses by appealing to the collective imaginary with a series of monuments to everyday items.
Developer: DSK Deutsche Stadt- und Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Authors: KARO* architekten – Antje Heuer, Bert Hafermalz, Prof. Stefan Rettich
Monument for an Open Society
Brussels (Belgium), 2018
The Canal Zone Abattoir site, a bleak industrial zone full of barriers, has been reconciled with the working-class neighbourhoods surrounding it by means of a versatile, open, monumental market which includes a farm-to-table restaurant.
Developer: Abattoir NV
Authors: ORG Permanent Modernity
Memorial 22/3
A circle of thirty-two birches has been planted in a clearing of the Sonian forest not far from the centre of Brussels to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks in the city on 22 March 2016.
Developer: IBGE Institut Bruxellois pour la Gestion de l'Environnement
Authors: Bureau Bas Smets
Community Kitchen in Terras da Costa
Costa de Caparica (Portugal), 2017
A participatory process involving the residents of a shantytown located in an agricultural and ecological reserve on the outskirts of Lisbon has resulted in the construction of a community kitchen, reinforcing social interaction and a sense of belonging.
Developer: ateliermob + Colectivo Warehouse
Authors: Ateliermob + Colectivo Warehouse
Third Garden
Florence (Italy), 2017
Neglected for more than fifty years, a natural riverside space in the old city centre has been opened to the public after temporary landscaping was carried out.
Developer: Regione Toscana Genio Civile Valdarno Superiore, Consorzio di Bonifica Medio Valdarno
Authors: F. Ciaravella, U. Daina, V. Fiore Studio ++
Renovation of the Himarë Waterfront
Himarë (Albania), 2016
The demolition of a retaining wall dropping sharply from a waterfront road has now connected the town and the Ionian Sea by means of introducing a gently sloping series of platforms planted with pine trees for shade.
Developer: Albanian development fund
Authors: Bureau Bas Smets, SON-group (architect of record)
Rehabilitation of the Alameda Manuel Ricardo Espirito Santo
Lisbon (Portugal), 2017
A garden square full of trees restores greenness to an old agricultural site which was badly damaged in the mid-twentieth century by the construction of a motorway and a proliferation of open-air car parks.
Developer: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Authors: JOSÉ ADRIÃO ARQUITECTOS
Connecting the Carmo Convent with Chiado
Thirty years after dozens of buildings were destroyed in a catastrophic fire, a new sequence of stairs, ramps and terraces linking Pátio B with the ruins of the Carmo Convent, Carmo Square, and the Santa Justa Lift has contributed to the restoration of the Chiado neighbourhood.
Authors: Álvaro Siza with Carlos Castanheira
Blue House Yard
London (United Kingdom), 2017
A process of participative design and construction involving students, local residents, users and professional carpenters has converted a disused spae and a municipal building into a productive, lively site with workshops for creative businesses, wooden shops, a space for local residents to meet, a bus converted into a café, and spaces for fairs and markets.
Developer: London Borough of Haringey, High Street Works
Authors: Jan Kattein Architects, Meanwhile Space CIC
Lea River Park
The creation of a park following the course of the Lea River from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to the Thames at Blackwell has overcome physical and social fragmentation caused by large-scale infrastructure while also recognising the industrial landscape which has been essential for London's economic development.
Developer: London Legacy Development Corporation (with London Borough of Tower Hamlets and London Borough of Newham)
Authors: 5th Studio
Recovery of the ENCI Quarry
Maastricht (Netherlands), 2020
The anthropic landscape of the ENCI quarry which supplied the Netherlands with cement for more than a century has been restored in the form of a large peri-urban park with spaces evoking water and vegetation.
Developer: Stichting Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij ENCI gebied
Authors: Rademacher de Vries Architects
The fold's Childhood
Meyrin (Switzerland), 2017
The drabness of open spaces in a modern industrial estate has been alleviated with a series of deep slashes in the ground which create a sculpture-landscape representing the topography of the Jura Mountains and offering children a space to play.
Developer: Ville de Meyrin
Authors: Gilles Brusset Gilles Brusset
Bringing gardens back
Moscow (Russia), 2017
Following old seventeenth-century walls for more than fifteen kilometres around the old city centre, parts of the Ring highway have been turned into gardens, thus reclaiming for pedestrians essential space which had been invaded by cars.
Developer: КБ Стрелка
Authors: Strelka KB
Refurbishment of vacant spaces in "Les Courtillières"
Pantin (France), 2020
The empty, poorly maintained spaces of the "Les Courtillières" resThe empty, poorly maintained spaces of the "Les Courtillières" residential estate which, like so many other projects of modern urbanism, had lapsed into social exclusion and spatial-social segregation have been refurbished in a project embracing the whole estate. idential estate which, like so many other projects of modern urbanism, had lapsed into social exclusion and spatial-social segregation have been refurbished in a project embracing the whole estate.
Developer: Ville de Pantin
Authors: l'AUC
A Square and a Playground below the Castle
Škofja Loka (Slovenia), 2017
Once used as an open-air car park, the area at the foot of the walls of a medieval castle has been transformed to include a square, a playground, steps, and terraced seating
Developer: Ravnikar Potokar d.o.o.
Authors: Ravnikar Potokar d.o.o.
Niel garden
Toulouse (France), 2016
After acquiring the abandoned Niel military barracks located on a small hill near the bank of the Garonne River, the Toulouse Council has transformed the land into a new city park.
Developer: Mairie de Toulouse
Authors: Michèle ORLIAC, Miquel BATLLE
Renewal of the Seafront Promenade
Vlorë (Albania), 2017
The deplorable state of the waterfront after decades of neglect and privatisation has been remedied with a white concrete promenade planted with Aleppo pines and linking beaches, a park, several sports areas, an amphitheatre, and a large paved terrace.
Developer: Fondi Shqiptar i Zhvillimit
Authors: Xaveer De Geyter Architects