Five Public Spaces Are Vying for the Grand European Award and Most of Them Are Tearing Apart the City of the Car
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A roundabout became a public bath, a parking lot in Antwerp became a park, and in Barcelona much of the traffic was diverted into tunnels. Their common thread: less asphalt, more shade, water, and space for people.
A project developed in Logroño has been among the five finalists of the European Urban Public Space Prize 2026. It is ‘Bathrooms in the roundabout’, an intervention signed by Leopold Banchini for Concentric in 2025 that transforms an obsolete roundabout into an ephemeral public bath space and climate shelter against episodes [...] Concentric’s ‘ephemeral sauna’ in Logroño opts for a European prize
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