International Convention Center (CCIB)
This multi-purpose cultural building includes a very large auditorium, a multi-functional performing space, exhibition spaces, meeting rooms, and a restaurant and foyer, in addition to technical services, loading docks, storage spaces, and car parking on two levels. It was part of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona and has 45 translucent halls, spread over 3 floors, 2 mezzanines and a basement. The CCIB and the neighboring building Forum Auditorium (by Swiss architects Herzog and De Meuron), are linked to each other by a 20-meter-wide underground walkway. Mateo 'explains': “I have gone back to loving the precision of iron: normal, but monstrous, banal but not domestic, superhuman. The mega structure is seen proudly in the East façade, opposite the elegant neighbouring triangle. The bones are covered in the rest of the building.”
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