Auditori Forum (CCIB)

Auditori Fòrum CCIB is Barcelona’s 3,084-seat concert hall inside the blue, triangular Fòrum Building at Diagonal Mar. The room places 2,341 seats in the stalls and 743 in the balcony, facing a 420 m² stage; its scale comes with a fixed-seat format designed for clear, full-room viewing. It is a concert space embedded in a civic building whose public life began with the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures.

Built for the 2004 forum

The auditorium arrived as part of Herzog & de Meuron’s Forum 2004 Building and Plaza. Their project ran from 2001 to 2004 on an edge-of-city site occupied by industrial installations, a residual water-treatment plant and a petrol station. The scheme arranged the auditorium, exhibition areas, foyers and restaurant on horizontal levels beneath a vast triangular body, giving the performance room an unusually architectural setting.

CCIB opened in 2004 for Barcelona’s Universal Forum of Cultures, with the Forum Building designed by Herzog & de Meuron. A later operational change shapes the current chapter: Fira de Barcelona has managed CCIB since November 2021. The auditorium and convention centre connect through an underground walkway, pairing concert presentation with the wider convention complex.

The seat is part of the experience

Programming treats the hall as a large seated stage for concerts, shows and public events, with bills spanning alternative, electronic, indie, Latin, folk, classical and pop. Expect a dedicated lobby, a 1,890 m² foyer and ten dressing rooms behind the stage. The official room plan emphasizes acoustics and visibility, making stalls versus balcony the central choice: proximity below, or a broad view across the stage picture above.