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The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial award established in 2000 to recognise public space projects. It is organised by the
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (also known by its acronym, CCCB) is an arts centre in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated in the Raval district, the Centre’s core theme is the city and urban culture. The CCCB organizes ...
together with six other European institutions:
The Architecture Foundation Founded in 1991, The Architecture Foundation is Britain's oldest independent architecture centre. It examines contemporary issues in architectural theory and practice, through a public programme that has involved exhibitions, competitions publicatio ...
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Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Architecture and Heritage City) is a museum of architecture and monumental sculpture located in the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro), in Paris, France. Its permanent collection is also known as Musée n ...
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Architekturzentrum Wien The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is a museum in Vienna, in the Museumsquartier. It is conceived as a centre for exhibitions, events and research into architecture and related topics, particularly the architecture and urban design of the 20th a ...
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Netherlands Architecture Institute The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) was a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, which comprised a museum, an archive plus library and a platform for lectures and debates. The NAI was established in 1988 and was ba ...
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German Architecture Museum The German Architecture Museum (german: Deutsches Architekturmuseum, links=no) (DAM) is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as ...
and the
Museum of Finnish Architecture The Museum of Finnish Architecture ( fi, Suomen arkkitehtuurimuseo, sv, Finlands arkitekturmuseum) is an architectural museum in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 1956, it is the second oldest museum of its kind (after the Shchusev Museum of Arc ...
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"European Prize for Urban Public Space"
, 1 May 2010
The number of nominations for the prize increased from 81 projects in 2000 to 347 projects in 2012, while the number of countries participating increased form 14 in the first year to 36 in 2012.Architecture Today
"Ljubljana/ Barcelona: Winners of the 2012 European Prize for Urban Public Space"
, 27 June 2012
Most entries have been received from Spain and only few from Central Europe.


List of award winners


References


Further reading

*Magda Anglès (2010) ''In Favour of Public Space: Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space'', Actar, {{ISBN, 978-84-92861-38-5 *Diane Grey (2015) ''Europe City: Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space'', Lars Müller


External links


Official website
Architecture awards European awards Awards established in 2000