Edition 2026
Finalists
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Zuidpark
Antwerp (Belgium), 2024
Zuidpark turns a car-parking space on Antwerp’s old docks into a metropolitan green lung, with a design that integrates biodiversity, recovers the water cycle and creates new neighbourhood spaces where local people can sit and spend time.
Developer: AG Vespa and Water-Link
Authors: Tractebel, Georges Descombes, Atelier adr
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Catalan Glories Square
Barcelona (Spain), 2025
With this transformation of the plaza, the cloverleaf interchange becomes a plaza-cum-park, consolidating a new urban ecosystem that integrates urban-scale mobility at a lower level to prioritize nature on the surface, offering a climate refuge and accessible green space for neighbourhood life.
Developer: BIMSA (Barcelona d'Infraestructures Municipals SA)
Authors: AgenceTER, Ana Coello Paisatge i Arquitectura, Meta Engineering - Quadrante
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Round About Baths
Logroño (Spain), 2025
Housed in an obsolete roundabout, the project proposes the installation of temporary public baths and a climate refuge for cases of extreme heat, challenging the meaning of road infrastructures to turn vehicle space into a place for people to meet and share at a human scale.
Developer: Festival Concéntrico
Authors: Leopold Banchini
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Peace Park
Vicenza (Italy), 2025
Vicenza Airport Ecological Park transforms the old airport into a 65-hectare landscape that uses nature-based solutions to organize water management, recover biodiversity and create new collective spaces.
Developer: Comune di Vicenza
Authors: EMF - Estudi Martí Franch, PAN Associati, ITS Engineering Company, Studio Franco Zagari
