Spaces

The ESMUC is located in the new urban center of Plaça de les Glòries, next to the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya y a pocos metros del Mercat dels Encants and the Barcelona Museum of Design. We share headquarters with L’Auditori and the Barcelona Music Museum, in a large music center of 40,000 m², work of the architect Rafael Moneo.

The building was built between 1990 and 1999 on land that occupies two blocks from the Eixample. It is immediately recognizable by its sober and compact appearance, by the concrete grid that is repeated along the façade and the steel panels that give it its characteristic yolk colour. The central part of the construction is supported on columns, forming a passage that allows you to cross the building without having to go around it. In this space we also find the Llanterna, a monumental glass cube decorated by Pablo Palazuelo that acts as the atrium and true heart of the building.

Inside the ESMUC we find the concrete structure present on the façade and a maple wood cladding that transmits warmth and light to all spaces. The classrooms are acoustically isolated and have the necessary equipment and instruments to guarantee the quality of teaching.