estudioOCA has been selected as the landscape architect for one of the finalist teams to develop proposals for a new master plan that will regenerate the area surrounding the Bay of Pasaia in the Basque country of Spain. estudioOCA is part of the team of Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Sociedad y Terrirorio, S.L., led by architect and sociologist Jose Maria Ezquiaga. The team will be competing against the four remaining finalists Zaha Hadid, West 8, KCAP, and S333 Architecture + Urbanism.

The competition organizers announced the five teams that wrere chosen from the 47 teams that applied, including MVRDV, BIG, Dominique Perrault, Oriol Bohigas, Richard Rogers, Foreign Office Architecture, and Estudio Lamela. The five selected teams have been given four months to develop their proposals.