The President of the Consortium of the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Merce Conesa, is pleased to invite you to the Award Ceremony of the European Prize for Public Space 2016 which will take place at the CCCB on Monday, July 4, 2016 at 6.30 p.m.

Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, will be participating in the ceremony, Enric Battle, President of the Jury for the 2016 Prize, who will announce the decision of the Jury and the authors and promoters of the prize-winning works. 

See 25 works shortlisted for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016. The finalists are from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, France, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Ukraine.

The Prize is an initiative of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), jointly with The Architecture Foundation (London), the Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna), the Institut français d’architecture / Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine (Paris), the Museum of Finnish Architecture (Helsinki), the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt) and the Museum of Architecture and Design (Ljubljana). The purpose of the Prize is to acknowledge and promote the public nature of urban spaces and their capacity to encourage social cohesion. It acknowledges and promotes spaces that are both public (open to everyone) and urban, with the emphasis on their relational, civic and democratizing nature.

We will be announcing all the winners on Monday, July 4, 2016.

The event will be live-streamed via the website 

Admission is free

Language: Catalan+Simultaneous translation from Catalan into English

Venue: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona 

The Auditorium

Top image © CCCB

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