Venues

Day one

MediaTIC Building: c/ Roc Boronat, 117 (entrance by c/ Sancho de Ávila). First Floor

The Media-TIC building is the nucleus connecting the space between the Media and TIC clusters of the 22@Barcelona district, a meeting point for companies and professionals.

The building is in the shape of a cube and formed by large iron beams covered in a plastic coating of inflatable bubbles, which offer glimpses of the fluorescent structure of the building. The attractive covering also has a functional utility as a way of regulating light and temperature, primarily preventing 114 tons of CO2 a year from escaping from the building, and offering a 20% saving on climate control.

A highly personal creation of the Cloud-9 architect’s office, led by Enric Ruiz-Geli, the building seeks to be iconic in the digital world and a vehicle for the dissemination of new technologies, while being designed as a socially open civic space.

Media-TIC covers an area of 14,000 m2 with spaces for companies, research and training, and gives priority to spatial intercommunication, the interrelation with the 22@Barcelona district, of which it is a part, and the development of synergies as befitting a cluster space.

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Day two and three

Diagonal ZeroZero Tower: Av. Diagonal 0. First Floor

Diagonal ZeroZero Tower is the headquarters of the Telefónica company in Catalonia. It brings together all the company’s offices that used to be located in different parts of Barcelona and its Barcelona R&D centre. A total of 1,500 people are currently occuping the building.

The structure of this new, cutting-edge icon of the city has a rhombus-diamond form. The 24-floor building is 110 metres high, with generously proportioned spaces where there is a constant play of shimmering light. It’s built according to energy-efficiency and bioclimate criteria.The constructed surface area is of 25,353 m2 above ground and 8,621 m2 below ground.

Work began in August 2007 and delivered to Telefónica in january of 2011. 86 million Euros ware invested in the project.

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