The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition organized by seven European institutions with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities. The award, created in 2000, celebrates its seventh edition in 2012.
JOINT WINNER
Open-Air-LibraryMagdeburg (Germany), 2009
The residents of a socially depressed neighbourhood have organised to collect and share books in an open-air library that they have constructed, after a participative process, with prefabricated pieces from a demolished building.
JOINT WINNER
Den Norske Opera & BallettOslo (Norway), 2008
The roof of the opera house gently emerges from the waters of the port of Bjørvika to offer people who walk on it splendid views over the city and the fjord.
SPECIAL MENTION
Urban Activators: theater podium & brug GrotekerkpleinRotterdam (Netherlands), 2009
The insertion of a pavilion-cum-theatre programmatically revitalises the Laurenskerk cathedral square and articulates its relationship with the Delftsevaart canal.
SPECIAL MENTION
Paseo Marítimo de la Playa PonienteBenidorm (Spain), 2009
The complex strip of transition between the city and beach unfolds in a colourful repertoire of sinuous forms that is sufficiently powerful to order the seafront facade and confer on it a unitary character.
SPECIAL MENTION
Passage 56 / espace culturel écologique Paris (France), 2009
Popular initiative has transformed an abandoned passageway of rue Saint Blaise into a collectively-managed ecological garden.
SPECIAL MENTION
Casetas de pescadores en el puertoCangas do Morrazo (Spain), 2008
A row of fishermen's huts dynamises the breakwater of the port with an activity that is deep-rooted in the place and attractive to the eyes of passers-by.
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