A mix between modern and vintage, ARCUB Gabroveni is built on the ruins of the former Gabroveni Inn, a historical monument in the centre of Bucharest. Consolidated, restored and extended, the 19th-century building was returned to Bucharest's socio-cultural-tourist circuit in 2014, when it became the ARCUB headquarters. It brings together the history of at least two famous inns in Bucharest: Hagi Tudorache Inn and Gabroveni Inn.

At the end of the 16th century, the houses built on this site were destroyed. The old Gabroveni Inn is first mentioned in 1739. On the ruins of the houses there had been a series of shops that the wholesaler merchant Tudor Hagi Tudorache bought and transformed into the Hănișor (The Small Inn), shortly after the earthquake of 1802. The great fire of 1847, which burned most of the capital, also destroyed Tudorache's Hănișor, which had already occupied the space between Lipscani and Gabroveni streets. The merchant's sons rebuilt the inn after the model of Hanul cu Tei (Inn with Linden Trees), with vaulted cellars for goods and shops on the ground floor, filled with lace, embroidery, jewellery and accessories of all kinds.

Urmașii lui Tudor Hagi Tudorache vând hanul în jurul anului 1870 lui Solomon Ascher, care îl redenumește Pasajul Comercial și înalță clădirea cu un etaj. Frații Hechtmann și Hasan Emanuel își stabilesc aici câte o manufactură, Gabriel David înființează o fabrică de spirt, iar fațada dinspre Lipscani devine sediul băncii Marmorosch Bank.

The descendants of Tudor Hagi Tudorache sold the inn around 1870 to Solomon Ascher, who renamed it Pasajul Comercial (Shopping Corridor) and raised the building by one story. The brothers Hechtmann and Hasan Emanuel set up a factory here, Gabriel David established a medicinal alcohol factory, and the Lipscani frontage became the headquarters of the Marmorosch Bank. The year 1955 brings the transfer of the building from the hands of the Ascher family to CENTROCOOP, and the inn is removed from the list of historical monuments of the Romanian People's Republic. During the archaeological excavations between 1967-1974, the first confusions about the identity of this building and the Gabroveni Inn appeared.

In 2009, ARCUB, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, started the Restoration and Extension Project of the Gabroveni Inn - Pasajul Comercial. The main objective was to restore and consolidate the old inn, without altering its representative elements. More than 300,000 bricks of the over 200-year-old walls were individually replaced and the metal moulded ornaments of the gate were reconstructed from scratch. The building was completed in 2014 and transformed into Bucharest's cultural platform - ARCUB, with a 200-seat performance hall, a workshop hall and a 50-seat studio hall, exhibition and conference halls.