​Elevations of history and community safety win top honors at the 12th European Prize for Urban Public Space

The 12th European Prize for Urban Public Space has been awarded to two projects in Warsaw, Poland and Porto do Son, Spain that enhanced the civic experience of their respective locales through public space designs rooted in history, urban revitalization, and the spirit of community and place.The winner of the General category was 'Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound’ by the studios topoScape and Archigrest. The project adapted an existing mound of repurposed decades-old building rubble and detritus from World War II that had been turned into a Memorial to the country's resistance movement in the 90s, strengthening conditions to lead to a better understanding of the site and its importance to history.Read the full post on Bustler

​Elevations of history and community safety win top honors at the 12th European Prize for Urban Public Space

The 12th European Prize for Urban Public Space has been awarded to two projects in Warsaw, Poland and Porto do Son, Spain that enhanced the civic experience of their respective locales through public space designs rooted in history, urban revitalization, and the spirit of community and place.

The winner of the General category was 'Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound’ by the studios topoScape and Archigrest. The project adapted an existing mound of repurposed decades-old building rubble and detritus from World War II that had been turned into a Memorial to the country's resistance movement in the 90s, strengthening conditions to lead to a better understanding of the site and its importance to history.

Read the full post on Bustler