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European Prize for Urban Public Space

The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition organised with the aim of recognising and making known all kinds of works to create, recover and improve public spaces in European cities.

Presentation of Finalists in the GeneralCategory

2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space

What are Europe’s best public space projects in recent years?  The teams responsible for the five works selected as finalists to the general category of the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Spacemet at the CCCB to present their projects to the jury, chaired by Beth Galí,  in a session open to the public and led by the Prize secretary, the architect Lluís Ortega.

“No Beach Here”

Opening session of the international workshop ETSAV-CCCB

Opening session of the workshop organised for ETSAV students which taking the Fòrum Baths as its starting point, aims to analyse the specific nature of seafronts and test new ways of appropriately facing and adapting to social and environmental challenges.

Beyond Besòs: Inhabiting the Seafront

Final session of the international workshop ETSAV-CCCB

Closing session of the workshop, with the presentation by ETSAV students of their proposals to rethink the ways of inhabiting the public space of Barcelona's waterfront in a radical way.

Beyond Besòs: Inhabiting the Seafront

Opening session of the international workshop ETSAV-CCCB

Opening session of the workshop by Carme Ribas and María Langarita,  organised for ETSAV students which aims at a radical rethinking of ways of inhabiting Barcelona’s seafront.

Dialogues about the Market

Elena Albareda and Toni Massanés

 The logistics and digitisation of commerce have made possible the coexistence, in the same stall, of products from nearby gardens and others from faraway parts of the world. Precisely because of this, the food choices we make in the market can transform distant territories with quite ...

Dialogues about the Table

Ada Parellada and Gustavo Duch

Do we still eat at the table? Are there changes in the way we sit together at the table? The places where we eat nowadays are increasingly diverse. The city today has intense, and often irregular rhythms thus obliging us to organise meals with other priorities and conditions. The table often ...

Dialogues about the Home

Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa and Francesc Magrinyà

Eat at home or eat out? The system of socioeconomic relations and perceptions of food in contemporary times have brought changes in the notion of centrality of the kitchen and dining spaces of the home in western culture, which to some extent, now belongs to the past. However, food has not ...

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European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018

Created by the CCCB in 2000, the European Prize for Urban Public Space has remained loyal to the underlying principles of recovering and improving public spaces in order to contribute to the democratic health of our cities.