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Winners unveiled at Galvanizing Awards 2010
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Sanaa-designed Rolex Learning Center opens
The Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland has officially opened and will function as a laboratory for learning, a library with 500,000 volumes and an international cultural hub for EPFL, open to both students and the public
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Built on the campus of EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the building is spread over one single fluid space of 20,000 sq m and provides a seamless network of services, libraries, information gathering, social spaces, spaces to study, restaurants, cafes and outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal “patios”, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, which required completely new methods of construction.
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EPFL is one of the world’s leading universities in technology and science, renowned for its innovations in research and learning. It is currently ranked number one in Europe alongside Cambridge in the fields of Engineering Technology and Computer Sciences. The campus, on a site overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps, brings together over 4,000 researchers, and 7,000 students, who work in a highly collaborative environment with international experts in engineering, science and industry.
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Japanese architectural practice SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and
Associates) was established in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. The firm’s most recent major project is the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In 2009 they designed the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion in London. Other notable projects include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa in Japan, and the Louvre-Lens in France, opening in 2012.
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