This telecommunications centre stands like a modern town gate at a crossroads in the spacious Olympic Village in Barcelona. A bridge spans the road and links the closed stone facades of the cuboid technical block to the elliptical office building with its shimmering aluminium cladding. The finely structured radio mast signals the building's function. At street level a glazed section in the monolithic technical block reveals the staircase inside. The wall's inclined plane allows the lower, stepped part of the perpendicular 'window' to project, producing interesting light and shade contrasts in sunlight. Nighttime illumination from within creates further dramatic effect.