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The Cibernarium building in Calle Roc Boronat - Poble Nou, in central Barcelona, close to Glories and Agbar Tower. To be perfectly honest, after all the hype around the building and its lavish architectural solutions and design that I've seen and heard in social media, I was a quite disappointed. I mean, there's nothing really particularly interesting or aesthetically appealing to this building - in fact, the building actually looks like an outdoors bunker that would "erupted" from the underground and all of the sudden had surfaced. From the outside it looks like an ugly, lettuce-green structure of contrapted iron and inside its mostly like and open-spaced area with surrounding boxes or rooms on the ground floor and a central auditorium and classrooms on the 1st floor. The classrooms are crammed with desks, chairs, cables and white boards and desktops computers, in typical XX century traditional schooling spacial arrangements, and all these desktops and computer towers get in the way of visual communicarion between teachers and students and between students themselves. In a couple of courses I attended I actually had to rotate one screen and tower to the side to be able to see the teacher and the board. The good thing though is that the surrounding corridors on the 1st floor are very open-spaced and full of light with panoramic windows all around the big, wide facade of the 1st floor. The small break area is also cosy and inviting and the nearby terrace provides a breath of fresh air where you can step out into the open air and away from closed environments, although one can immagine that in busier periods throughout the day it might be small for so many people, especially for smokers. The most interesting thing is actually not the building but what goes on in it - the training programmes for IT, business, and soft-skills for people searching for a job, people of all ages who want to upskill their professional profiles or simply learn new skills. In that regard, this is the only institution (with its various locations around the city of Barcelona) of such nature that I've known about in several countries and whoch works with such intensiry and dinamics. All the trainings are for free and sponsored by the employment agency of the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona called "Barcelona Activa". I've attended quite a few courses and many are very interesting and useful and the majority of the trainers are quite professional and skilled. I rate the building with 3 stars because it's really nothing special to me both aesthetically and...

Un edificio con un diseño muy llamativo que transmite modernidad, llama la atención las membranas exteriores que supuestamente permiten una climatización inteligente.

Sin embargo, dentro del edificio la historia es muy distinta. En primer lugar los ascensores funcionan extremadamente mal, desde hace MESES es normal esperar minutos al ascensor (y hay 3 y nunca están ocupados!!!) y para más énfasis por algún motivo la zona de ascensores está situada "al aire libre" y entra muchísimo frío tanto dentro como mientras esperas el ascensor. Hace a uno preguntarse el porqué de la climatización "inteligente" si luego en el interior se encuentran situaciones así. Sin duda es el edificio peor climatizado que he conocido.

Otro punto destacable son los baños que son practicamente en su totalidad de interior negro y la luz que han escogido para iluminar apenas permite ver el interior.

En resumen, da la sensación de que únciamente se han preocupado de que el edificio parezca moderno y tecnológico por fuera y han descuidado los detalles más...

Very friendly staff want to open a business but stopped me in my tracks didn't give me any options just said I couldn't do it so back to the drawing board why is it so hard to do anything right here bizarre but I'm not going to give up thanks for...