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5th European Prize for Urban Public Space

Son Başvuru Tarihi: 15 Mart 2008
İletişim
Adres: General registry Montalegre, 5 E-08001 Barcelona
E-posta: [email protected]
Web Sitesi: www.urban.cccb.org/priz...
Yarışma SonuçlarıWinner
Barking Town Square (London, 2008)
Author: muf architecture/art, Alison Crawshaw
Developer: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Special Mentions
centrum.odorf (Innsbruck, 2006)
Author: Frötscher Lichtenwagner, Idealice, Alice Grössinger (Landscape Architect)
Developer: IIG Innsbrucker Imobilien Gesmbh

Other People's Photograph (Folkestone, 2008)
Author and Developer: Strange Cargo Arts Company

Torre del Homenaje (Huescar, 2007)
Author: Antonio Jimenez Torrecillas
Developer: Junta de Andalucia, Delegacion de CulturaYarışma Bilgileri

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), The Architecture Foundation (London), the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Rotterdam), the Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna) and the Museum of Finnish Architecture (Helsinki) have called for entries for the Fifth European Prize for Urban Public Space, which is to be awarded in June 2008 in Barcelona.

Why Public Space?
Given the reductionism and programmatic simplicity of some of the large-scale urban projects implemented in Europe in recent years, and the risks of homogenisation and impoverishment of the urban landscape, we believe that promoting public space and making known the diversity of functions it can embrace and its intense, rich and plural character, is an ideal way of stimulating urban projects that aim to reinvent and enhance the structural role that public space has always played in European cities.

Conditions of Participation
In order to enter for the European Prize for Urban Public Space, the works must be presented for the award by the institution/s that has initiated the intervention, or by its author/s. Works or interventions in newly created or remodelled urban spaces that present for the Prize must be public property or offer free access to the public. The Prize covers all countries that form part of the continent of Europe, including islands. If it is desired to present interventions that aim to create areas within the city network, it must be born in mind that, apart from general considerations about the effect as a whole, the results achieved within these public spaces will be the ones specifically evaluated.

Since some urban interventions involve long periods of work before their completion, projects that have not been fully completed in 2006 or 2007 may also present for the Prize if enough phases have been finished so as to enable assessment of the urban repercussions of the intervention as a whole. In order to present for the Prize, the required documentation as specified in these rules must be submitted before the established deadline.

Selection Criteria
The criteria that will govern selection of the projects that are presented for the Prize will not be exclusively related with the quality of the work from a strictly architectural point of view. The jury will also consider other aspects that enable evaluation of the urban transformation that has taken place in the specific setting.

• Appropriateness of interventions to the functions required of public space, from those directly linked with citizens’ occupation of a space, through to those pertaining to the collective imaginary.

• Capacity of the interventions to favour a reduction of social fractures within the city and the elimination of physical and/or symbolic barriers in order to enhance quality of life for the inhabitants.

• Contribution of the projects in the domain of environmental improvement, in promoting public transport and innovation in the treatment of public installations, energy resources and urban waste.

• The degree of citizen participation and engagement in the conception, carrying out and subsequent maintenance of the space. Degree of acceptance by users.

• Transversal character of the planning concepts and/or objectives that have guided the Project (sociology, demography, history, architecture, economy, engineering, landscaping, anthropology, etc.).

International Jury
The jury that will decide the awarding of the Prize will be formed by a president and five members who have been proposed by the institutions that are jointly offering it. The jury will only take into account those projects that comply with all the conditions of participation and the Prize can also be declared null and void. Secretariat functions will be performed by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, which will designate the person who is to assist the jury and prepare the minutes of the sessions during the selection process of the Prize winners. The working sessions and deliberations of the international jury for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2008 will take place in Barcelona on 29 April 2008.

Schedule
15 January 2008
Opening of period for presenting projects
15 March 2008 End of period for presenting projects
29 April 2008 Meeting of the International Jury of the Prize
13 June 2008 Award of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2008Yarışma Şartnamesi
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