Anarchimedean lattice is a complete algebraic latticeL with the property that for each compact elementc∈L, the meet of all the maximal elements in the interval [0,c] is 0.L ishyper-archimedean if it is archimedean and for eachx∈L, [x, 1] is archimedean. The structure of these lattices is analysed from the point of view of their meet-irreducible elements. If the lattices are also Brouwer, then the existence of complements for the compact elements characterizes a particular class of hyper-archimedean lattices.