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It is also called MACOSA Tower. It was built in 1882 by the architect Pere Falqués. It supplied water to the mouth and later to the industry. Today is a reminder of the industrial past of the Poblenou skyline. He inspired painters such as Calsina, Subirachs and Miquel Vilá. Building protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. It has a circular floor made of solid exposed brick. Divided into four parts by cornices of several overlapping rings. The lower level has large blind arches and smooth bands; and at the bottom open half-pointed arched doors and bull's-eyes. The second section has the same decoration and semicircular arched windows and bull's eyes. The third level is that of the 12,000 m3 tank with the same decoration, but with an external Catalan vault staircase that is supported by metal brackets. The last section puts KISSES in metallic letters. The tower ends in a cornice and a roof with a circular construction with a conical roof. The interior of the tower has a helical staircase with buttresses of Catalan vault. Attached to the tower is the House of the Valves with a basilica floor plan, without an apse, and a gabled roof with a cornice. It is of exposed stone with smooth bands. At the short ends a semicircular arch window opens. The long side opposite the tower is the main façade; the door is of semicircular arch with two pilasters.

At the end of the 19th century, water in Barcelona was a scarce commodity, with extreme droughts in 1875 and 76. In 1877 a project to raise water was published by the general society formed in the same year. The project is directed by Francisco Javier Camps Puigmartí. While Marseille had 420 l / inhabitant, Paris, Dijon or Glasgow reached 200, with this project Barcelona expected to reach 38.22 l / inhabitant, doubling the availability. The catchment was on the right bank of the river Besòs, 1 km from the sea and less than 4 km from Barcelona. Where the Damm Brewery had been. The analyzes were favorable. With an expected height of 80 meters and two tanks, one at 40 m and the other at 80 m. The water, propelled by the pumps of the House of Valves, passed through a gallery and went up the center of the tower to the top of the tank. On June 21, 1882 it was inaugurated. The unfinished tower was 51 m long and remained so. The company began a strong expansion, in 1882 the City Council granted permission to channel the promenades of Sant Joan, Isabel II and Aduana and Plaça Palau.

Due to the succession in 1889, the salinity increased and the supply to the city was suspended. This failure is associated with the death of Xavier Camps i Puigmartí in 1890. This caused Barcelona Besós Waterworks Company Ltd. was transferred, in 1895, to the Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona (SGAB). In 1922 the Girona family bought the tower to add to its foundry which was later called Material para Ferrocarriles y Construcciones SA, Macosa. For seven decades it supplied the cooling system, less during the war, when the company was collectivized and converted into an armament factory, and the tower served as a weapons warehouse with an anti-aircraft battery. Macosa disappeared in 1989 merged with Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima and GEC-Alstom. In 1993 the production was moved to Santa Perpètua de la Mogoda and the tower was abandoned. After the 1992 Olympics, the coastal front was reorganized on Diagonal Mar. The factory was dismantled and the Water Tower was isolated. Subsequently, the former workers of Macosa and the cultural and neighborhood organizations promoted the rehabilitation with the involvement of the administration and Aigües de Barcelona who took over the restoration in 2010. The budget was 3.5 million. The architects were Antoni Vilanova and Eduard Simó, with the collaboration of the geographer and historian Mercè Tatjer i Mir. The space has been turned into a museum and the transfer of the Poble Nou Historical Archive is planned

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