PRBB Building

PRBB building

Right next to the Hospital del Mar, we can see Street Doctor Aiguader number 88, where there is a huge U-shaped building, a conical and elliptical. It is the PRBB (Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona), an enormous infrastructure opened in 2006, due to an initiative of the Government of Catalunya, the City Council and the University Pomepu Fabra, built by the architects Manuel Brullet and Albert de Pineda, both experts in public buildings. PRBB brings together six public research centers that are coordinated with each other, which has around about 1,100 employees, making the park one of the largest biomedical research centers in southern Europe. Its park is one of the largest biomedical research centers in southern Europe.

It is a large building partially covered with red cedar from Canada, which controls the effects of light which comes from the outside and which also lightens the structure. Because of this and due to its height and its stair outside structure, everyone that sees it is surprised by its 35,000 m2 on a plot of 7,000 m2. So we have a very modern and functional building, allowing a dynamic space.

It is with buildings like this, that we can see the will to provide the Barceloneta area with innovate buildings that manage to give the place a more modern identity.