topoScape + Archigrest, Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound

The international jury, chaired by the architect, urban planner, and landscape designer Beth Galí, has given the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space, in the General Category, to ‘Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound,’ a work of the firms topoScape and Archigrest.

The rubble from World War II that formed the hill was transformed into the concrete used to create the park’s new structures, which centered on adapting the mound area to the needs of park-goers. Given the difficult site, this meant providing footbridges and creating artificial ravines. As part of an education and dissemination mission, an open-air exhibition was put together with Warsaw’s reconstruction and the new landscape generated as themes. The project has reinforced citizens’ sense of belonging to the place, and gives the city a new green zone resilient to climate change.

In the Seafront Category, the jury distinguished ‘Beach improvement and redevelopment of the harbour edge of Porto do Son (A Coruña),’ by Creus e Carrasco and RVR Arquitectos.

This award is part of the Cultural Regatta, a program of activities organized by the Barcelona City Council to accompany the Catalonian capital’s sailing event, the America’s Cup.

The 12th edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, an initiative of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), brought in a total of 297 entries from 35 European countries. In June the jury drew up a shortlist of 10, 5 for each category.

Results of the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space

Creus e Carrasco + RVR Arquitectos, Beach improvement and redevelopment of the harbour edge of Porto do Son (A Coruña)