The international jury has awarded the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space, in the General Category, to the “Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound” by archigrest and topoScape. The winner of the Seafronts Category is “Beach improvement and redevelopment of the harbour edge” by CREUSeCARRASCO and RVR Arquitectos.

The international jury of the Prize, with the architect, urbanist, and landscape and industrial designer Beth Galí as its president, values that the project Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound has been able to embrace the memory of this place through its materiality. Hence, rubble from the Second World War that has shaped the mound is transformed into concrete to create the park’s new structures

In the Seafronts Category, the jury considers that the project Beach improvement and redevelopment of the harbour edge in Porto do Son successfully achieves a twofold aim: renaturalising the seafront with dunes protecting the preexisting park and reconstructing the relationship between port activities and civic life in the town of Porto do Son by favouring direct contact between town and sea.

An initiative of the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, the European Prize for Urban Public Space has received this year, in its twelfth award, a total of 297 projects from 35 different countries. Last June, the international jury chose 10 finalist works, 5 in each category.

The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial honorary award which, since 2000, has recognised the best projects to create, transform, and recover public spaces in European cities.

The prize in the Seafronts Category is part of the Cultural Regatta, a programme of activities promoted by the Barcelona City Council on the occasion of the holding of the America’s Cup in the city.