ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/415288/arteche-high-voltage-laboratory-acxt-arquitectos Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Alarcón https://www.archdaily.com/415288/arteche-high-voltage-laboratory-acxt-arquitectos This building is a High Voltage Laboratory, for testing dielectric transformers up to 850 kV, which requires to be a diaphanous vessel of 57 m long, 30 m wide and 27 m high (inner dimensions), surrounded completely by a Faraday cage needed for the extremely precision measurements performed inside.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/296905/under-the-roof-foraster-arquitectos Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Daniel Sánchez https://www.archdaily.com/296905/under-the-roof-foraster-arquitectos The urbanistic legislation in Mungia, a town near Bilbao (Spain), forces the use in new constructions of a gable roof with tile, in order to keep an identifiable architectural style in the area. It is certainly good to seek architectural uniformity –experience has shown that without doing so it can lead to aesthetic crimes. But it does not preclude seeking original solutions to update existing typologies.

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