The Rolex Learning Center is a library and study building on the EPFL campus in Écublens, Lausanne. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA won the December 2004 competition, and the article notes they are 2010 Pritzker Prize winners. Construction ran from 2007 to 2009, and it opened on February 22, 2010 and was inaugurated on May 27. The article names no style or materials.
The building has 398,000 square feet (37,000 m²) of floor area on one floor above ground plus a basement. A large one-room space has floor undulations, curved patios and ten bubble rooms for seminars. It houses the main research library, a 600-seat Forum Rolex hall, a café, a food court, a restaurant and 860 study seats.
EPFL owns it. Swiss government funding and sponsors including Rolex, Logitech, Nestlé and Novartis paid the cost of 110 million Swiss francs. The article gives no hours.
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