In June 2012 another international design competition was launched for a $25 million library and the redesign of the approved $15 million plaza by the council.
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With Abraham he also won the first prize (ex equo) in the international architectural design competition for the "Cultural Center" in Leopoldville, Congo in 1959 and the third prize in the 1958 competition for the Pan Arabian University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
For various international competition entries he has received the first or second prize: e.g. for Klösterliareal in Bern (1981), the University Library in Amiens (1991), the Synagogue in Dresden (1997), the Museum for Art and Design in Ingolstadt (2000) and the Museum of Medicine in Padua, Italy (2004).
There his neo-Flemish entry won a design competition against far more modern competitors like Hendrik Berlage and Otto Wagner.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004.
The building was designed by French architect Dominique Perrault who won an international design competition in 1992.