New Rolex Learning Center will open next week in the Swiss Lausanne. The project of Japanese bureau SANAA.
Rolex Learning Center by SANAA
The centre is in a campus of sciences and technologies of university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the educational center will be accessible both to students, and for the public. The centre will function as training laboratory, library with 500,000 volumes and the international cultural centre.
Having extended on the area in 20,000 sq.m., the centre there is an extensive network of services, libraries, information, dialogue, training, with restaurants, a cafe and vacation spots on open air. The building is innovative on the structure and the form, and has demanded use of the newest technologies for its building.
Rolex Learning Center receives financing from the Swiss government and large businessmen of the country. Participation of company Rolex in the project is a fruit of long-term cooperation with university EPFL in which frameworks researches of microtechnologies were carried out in hour design.
Rolex Awards
It also is traditional for the company, always a having reputation of the philanthropist in the field of arts, a science, culture (award Rolex Awards for businessmen, initiatives in sphere of arts Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative). Among other financial partners of the project — the companies well-known all over the world; Logitech, Losinger, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis, and SICPA.
