Designed by the studio, MBM Arquitectes, this building was conceptualised to house activities intended to enhance the visibility and enormous impact of the elementary discipline that is design, which is key to revitalising Barcelona socially, culturally and economically, both at home and abroad.

Disseny Hub Barcelona is patently a new architectural icon for the city. It is also a modern facility, as evinced in the public precinct surrounding the building and featuring, among others, the BruumRuum! illuminated graphic installation, the work of David Torrents and artec3, and the Hypermembrane prototype, an R&D project developed in collaboration with Materfad which can be viewed in the lake in front of the building until next summer.

Management of the Disseny Hub Barcelona building is the result of public-private collaboration shared between the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, BCD and FAD. The conjunction of these three agents, benchmark entities in the design world, is unique in all of Spain and a rare occurrence internationally.