The building located at number 36 Carrer de Balmes in Barcelona, better known as Fomento de Obras y Construcciones, was designed in 1924 by Jaume Torres i Grau. It stands within the block bounded by Carrer d’Enric Granados, Carrer del Consell de Cent and Carrer de la Diputació, with its principal façade opening onto number 36 Carrer de Balmes. It constitutes one of the finest examples of classicist Noucentisme in Barcelona’s architecture and currently houses offices and business premises. Built on a polygonal plot, the structure rises to five storeys (ground floor plus four upper floors). Beneath the cornice runs a narrow space allowing ventilation of the building’s “terrat a la catalana” (Catalan flat roof), visible on the façade through small rectangular openings. The plan is organised around three light wells —one central and two lateral— around which, together with the grand monumental staircase, the various rooms are arranged. The façade, constructed in Montjuïc stone, displays a clearly differentiated tripartite composition articulated by pilasters and is characterised by a sober monumentality achieved through a classical vocabulary, albeit with certain Baroque features. Each storey presents a distinct composition, consistently employing elements drawn from the classical repertoire to emphasise the building’s representative character. The ground floor contains the main entrance; its central bay is occupied by a doorway crowned with a broken triangular pediment and flanked by two segmental-arched windows. This type of segmental arch reappears on a larger scale in the lateral bays, forming two substantial portals. A narrow cornice line separates the ground floor from the upper storeys and serves as the base for the parapet balconies on the first floor. The openings on this floor are marked by their classicist composition, making use of Corinthian columns arranged in groups of three (one per façade bay), forming gallery-like structures that are repeated on the floor above. Separated from this by a Doric cornice, the next level also presents gallery-style openings, but here with Ionic columns crowned by alternating triangular and semicircular pediments. This superimposition of orders is interrupted on the third floor, which features a series of moulded rectangular windows (three per façade bay), separated from the uppermost level by a narrow cornice. The top floor is designed as a “solana” or arcaded gallery with smooth-shafted columns and Ionic capitals supporting a continuous entablature, above which are set the small openings of the previously mentioned Catalan flat roof. The building is completed by a large cornice with a Doric entablature, surmounted by four allegorical sculptures created by Josep Tenas.