The winner and finalists of the European Prize for Urban Public Space are known. The Beglian project FLOW by Jozef Wouters and POOL IS COOL was among the five finalists.
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.
Winner: Catharijnesingel
Utrecht (Netherlands), 2020
Restoration of Catharijnesingel removes vehicular traffic and brigns back water to rewild a new public space for the city and make it accessible for cyclists and pedestrians.
Developer: Gemeente Utrecht
Authors: OKRA Landschapsarchitecten
Finalists
FLOW
Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Flow, designed and built with the participation of fifty young people, is the first open-air swimming pool to be constructed in Brussels in forty years.
Developer: POOL IS COOL
Authors: Jozef Wouters, POOL IS COOL
Hage
Lund (Sweden), 2021
Lund Cathedral decided to use its properties to develop a public space that would be an alternative to the logic of rapid urbanisation in its surroundings.
Developer: Lunds Domkyrka (Lund Cathedral), Lunds domkyrka (Lund Cathedral)
Authors: Price & Myers, Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects
Gardens of Sporta pils
Riga (Latvia), 2021
A grassroots initiative for recovering an abandoned site becomes a new system, a model of public space that combines productive logics and non-domesticated nature as a new community space.
Developer: Artilērijas dārzi
Authors: Artilērijas dārzi
Saint Sernin Square
Toulouse (France), 2020
The removal of an open-air carpark becomes an occasion to restore eminence to place Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, by bringing back trees as the predominant feature of the vertical condition of the public space and establishing an area that can accommodate a range of public uses.
Developer: Toulouse Métropole, Toulouse Métropole
Authors: BAU (Joan Busquets, Pieter-Jan Versluys), MDP (Michel Desvigne), LEA, EGIS
