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 announced the Fifth European Prize for Urban Public Space, which is to be awarded in July 2008 in Barcelona. The first European Prize for Urban Public Space was offered in 2000 and since then it has been awarded on a two-yearly basis with the aim of recognising and promoting activities for the recovery of areas of social cohesion in European cities through transforming and improving public space. The fifth award of the Prize is now announced in keeping with the aim of highlighting and making known the major works of creating and remodelling public spaces that have been completed in Europe between 2006 and 2007.

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.

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