2017 Visible Award

The Public Jury of the fifth edition of the Visible Award, in collaboration with Lafayette Anticipations, took place at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, gathering over 200 people in a debate around the ten shortlisted projects.

On November 16th, 2019, the Public Jury of the fifth edition of the Visible Award, in collaboration with Lafayette Anticipations, took place at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, gathering over 200 people in a debate around the ten shortlisted projects. The jury occupied for a day—once again and since 2013—the conceptual and physical space of an actual parliament,

Puerta de Tierra (PDT) is a neighbourhood founded in the 17th century, located in the periphery of the historic urban centre of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital. PDT has a strategic and historical value in Puerto Rico. Its most important resource is its own people, who, for centuries, have struggled and survived adversity and injustice. Today, there is blight, noticeable urban decay, an ageing population, lack of ownership, and a disenfranchised young working class that fights to stay in their community despite an inequitable real estate market, which forces them either to leave or to remain in an isolated, poor, unsafe, and deteriorated urban ghetto.

Puerta de Tierra (PDT) is a neighbourhood founded in the 17th century, located in the periphery of the historic urban centre of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital. PDT has a strategic and historical value in Puerto Rico. Its most important resource is its own people, who, for centuries, have struggled and survived adversity and