Study Center EPFL in Lausanne by SANAA

At the end of 2004, the Tokyo studio SANAA defeated eleven other world-renowned architects in a competition for the EPFL educational center. You can recall all the projects - here. According to information from EPFL, construction of the winning design began this January. The new center resembles a double slice of Swiss cheese. In reality, however, it consists of concrete slabs 60 cm thick and up to 80 m long. According to the authors, it is “a place where virtual and physical elements come together to facilitate access to knowledge.” A publication about the educational center - here (4.5 Mb in French). Homepage of the educational center - here.
The first realization in Switzerland was completed by SANAA last year. It was a six-story administrative building WSJ-158 in Basel for the pharmaceutical company Novartis.