Orio SAREAK turns an obsolete sports bunker into a beautiful open plaza where sport, culture and everyday life are woven together. Inspired by Orio’s fishing-net heritage, it reconnects people, public space and local identity through a climate-sensitive, inclusive and replicable civic transformation for small European municipalities.
Connolly Barracks Reimagined represents a heritage-led adaptive reuse project transforming the former Officers’ Mess at Sean Connolly Barracks into a cultural, educational and civic hub with strong social integration, sustainability and placemaking outcomes.
The Blue Lagoon Rehabilitation is a national initiative by the Malta Tourism Authority, in collaboration with Mizzi Studio, to restore the ecological balance of Comino’s iconic lagoon within the Għajnsielem locality. Through an integrated, design-led regeneration approach, the project enhances visitor experience while protecting a Natura 2000 landscape uniting sustainability, accessibility, and long-term stewardship for future generations.
Lolland Municipality and the Nakskov 2030 initiative are in the process of revitalizing one of Denmark's most vulnerable towns with an urban development project in which tourism will create new opportunities for the town and help generate significant local economic revenue. An investment of €33 million, the project will focus on building renovation and cocreation, as well as creating an attractive experience route between the town's new harbour baths and Hestehoved Beach
In the village of Spycimierz, in central Poland, living heritage becomes a shared future. Built around the UNESCO-recognised tradition of Corpus Christi flower carpets, the initiative brings together residents, experts and local authorities to co-create the Corpus Christi Centre - an open, beautiful and inclusive place for culture, education and community life. Rooted in local identity and care for biodiversity, it turns tradition into a sustainable model of development for a small municipality.
Establishing a Participatory Youth Music Lab in the Historic Centre of Škofja Loka
The library will be housed in a former church and will be accessible during staffed and unstaffed hours. Besides lending library materials, it will also serve as a meeting place for study, meetings, and small-scale cultural activities.
The small building closed to the parking ground and the doctor's ordination will offer a wide range of infrastructure for the inhabitants, the patients, the guests, the tourists, the cyclists. They will find a public toilet, an ATM, a small shop for local agriculture products, a snack and drink automat, a shady space for recovery, an information tool about the community, a service station for cycles, a water station, a book change-station and a Bulletin board used as an analogue exchange.
The church of Lo-Reninge is being transformed into a living museum church where heritage, community, and spirituality converge. A participatory process surrounding the church policy plan is shaping a new future for the building: a heritage depot and public museum where religious and local heritage is preserved, researched, and exhibited. At the same time, part of the church will be preserved for liturgical activities and silence. This way, the church remains a place of significance—for the past,
U.B.A.G.A. aims to turn an ancient Ligurian hamlet into a vibrant Community Hub. It offers a unique cultural journey where a wide local tourism offer meets the original, unpublished artistic sketches that birthed the famous Ubaga Masks. Linked to other local municipalities, it’s a landmark for outdoor and art lovers. The project aligns with the NEB Compass through Aesthetics (beauty), Sustainability (circular recovery) and Togetherness (intergenerational solidarity and shared spaces).
