Exposed brick factory blocks and chimneys line a wide industrial grid, mixed with new glass office towers where the HBO Max series Ravalear placed its fictional investment fund.
What Poblenou looks like
Wide streets on a nineteenth century industrial grid carry blocks of exposed red brick, arched window heads repeating down each facade. Stone courses reinforce the ground floor corners on the older mills, and iron gates still close off the yards behind them.
, a former textile mill on Tànger at Llacuna, keeps its brick and stone facade and round arched windows behind a Universitat Pompeu Fabra campus sign. A glazed office tower rises directly behind it. A few blocks away, another mill now holds the art museum, its bare brick chimney left standing beside the museum's poured concrete wall.
On Llull, a chimney painted the same salmon pink as the building beneath it rises over a community centre, one gable end pierced with round windows under a stepped roofline. A former mill on Pujades keeps its full height factory windows and a ground floor garage bay, the letters IAAC lettered across the entrance where an architecture school now works.
Newer blocks along the same streets are grey rendered concrete rather than brick, but they keep the same loading bay at street level, delivery vans backed up to the kerb under the plane trees. runs the length of the grid from Avinguda Diagonal down toward the sea. crosses it at an angle, on an older line that predates the surrounding office towers.
Shot in Poblenou
The HBO Max series Ravalear placed its fictional investment fund's office in a tower in the 22@ district, filming scenes along Rambla del Poblenou and Carrer de Pere IV. The production used the district's mix of restored mills and new office towers as the clean, glass counterpoint to the crumbling Raval blocks the series is mostly set in.
Ravalear, 2026
Carrer de Pere IV
Ravalear filmed scenes for its fictional investment fund along this stretch of Carrer de Pere IV, where the office was placed in one of the district's 22@ towers. The source names this street and Rambla del Poblenou but not the specific building used.
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