Red Factory

The Red Factory in Zurich is a former workshop, which now serves as a musical place and cultural center. The building owes its name to the fact that it is made of red brick and to the fact that the leftist party carried out a social campaign for its reactivation.

The Red Factory was built in 1892 for the Seidenfirma Henneberg company, according to the design of Carl Arnold Séquin-Bronner. After many transitions between different companies, in 1972 the city took over the factory and planned to demolish the building in order to widen the road next to it.

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland proposed to transform the factory into a cultural center and voters supported this solution. In 1980, protests took place due to the authorities' sluggishness in implementing the project. Under the pressure of public opinion, a cultural center was opened here at the end of the same year