The nuclear power industry is in need of some positive PR right now this recently completed museum located in Tarragona attached to the Ascó Nuclear Power Station invites the general public to visit. The building consists of an interpretive centre dedicated to exploring energy while also functioning as a visitor centre for the plant. Designed by the Girona based practice Arquitecturia who draw inspiration from the arid and inhospitable character of the surrounding landscape which is dominated by the mega-structure power station with its concrete cooling tower. Combining an abstract geometrical grid with the sculptural carving of external voids the architects have heightened the drama of the site and orientation. A limited palette of building materials which play on qualities of transparency and opacity accentuate the effect. The museum building is wrapped in vertical lengths of black-painted steel featuring a tall window framing a central row of double-height rooms. Two curved terraces slice through the rectangular plan to create the two concave walls, which are clad in translucent polycarbonate. The museum contains an exhibition hall, lecture room and meeting rooms, all accessed from a foyer at the front of the building.