The Geneva Palladium hall will only be able to host one concert per month – rts.ch

A major venue for concerts and dance evenings in Geneva, the Palladium has not always had to deal with sensitive neighborhoods. Long industrial, the site located opposite the concert hall first hosted a gas factory – whose explosion in 1909 caused the death of 12 people -, then the roads and finally the Geneva Industrial Services until their moving to the Lignon district.

Gradually abandoned, the site was taken over in 1996 by workshops, small businesses, including the first cycle messenger in the canton, a theater, concert halls and nightclubs as well as various shared places which form the collective called Artamis. In just over a decade, the district would become one of the leading scenes of alternative culture in Switzerland. At the end of 2008, the site had to be decontaminated then reassigned to housing, the adventure ends.

Four buildings will be built on the ashes of Artamis. The facade of one of them borders rue du Stand, just in front of the entrance to the Palladium.

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