Located next to the central headquarters of the Caja Granada Savings Bank, a building by the same architect, right at the point where the River Genil and the Granada beltway meet, rises the new cultural complex of the financial institution. It is a colossal prismatic concrete volume measuring 120 meters long and 60 wide, and which performs like a podium taking up the whole site assigned. On its western side, the center is rounded off by a ten-story screen building containing the library, the mediatheque, administration offices and a restaurant on the top floor, conceived as a large window with superb views of the Alhambra, Sierra Nevada and Sierra Elvira.

Access to the center is through a large platform located on the northwest end, through a monumental door that leads to the access courtyard. From there one directly reaches the museum, with an adjacent area for workshops and a warehouse. For its part, the ground floor contains the reception, the cafeteria, two bays for offices, a services module and a scenic space for different uses with retractable stands and capacity for 300 spectators, taking up the three bays of the southwest end. The first floor contains an area for temporary exhibitions and an independent access to the theater.

The compact character of the building has been achieved with an external enclosure built with exposed concrete walls and phenolic board formworks measuring three meters wide, in tune with the Caja Granada building. The screen building has only a few windows, located in the interior courtyards, with dimensions adapted to the large scale of the project. The predominant color in the interior is white, both in the finishes of the vertical walls – painted plaster –, as in the Macael marble surfaces of the floors, with a detailing that follows the modulation of the project.

The most significant space of the work is an elliptical courtyard whose axes coincide with the interior and exterior diameter of the Carlos V Palace in the Alhambra precinct. In its interior a helicoidal ramp of laminated steel organizes the circulations. The footbridge consists of a central rib, formed of a warped metallic profile with two lateral steel plates and concentric cross beams separated by one meter and placed consecutively along this rib. The backbone rests on six reinforced concrete buttresses, and it is topped by a ten millimeter thick light steel sheet.