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Opened
  
2004

Phone
  
+34 932 30 10 00

Province
  
Province of Barcelona

Forum Building

Address
  
Museu Blau–Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Parque del Forum, Plaza Leonardo da Vinci, 11-14, 08019 Barcelona, Spain

Similar
  
Museu de les Ciències, Parc del Fòrum, Montjuïc Communications Tower, L'Auditori - Barcelona, Castle of the Three Dragons

The Forum Building (Catalan: Edifici Fòrum, [əðiˈfisi ˈfɔɾum]; Spanish: Edificio Fórum), also known as Museu Blau de les Ciències Naturals, is an architectural landmark in Barcelona designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron),.

The building is triangular in shape, measuring 180 metres on each side and 25 metres in height, located within the triangle formed by Diagonal Avenue, Rambla de Prim and the Ronda Litoral.

It was the symbol of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures and the serious flaws that arose during its construction were widely covered in both the Spanish national and foreign press. The building has become a political bone of contention, with the opposition parties in both Barcelona Council and the Parliament of Catalonia demanding to know why it cost so much (of the order of US $144 m).

The building has an auditorium with a seating capacity of 3,200 and an exhibition hall covering nearly 5,000 square metres.

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