Offices, schools and public buildings to film in Switzerland
10 of them, 9 with a photo and 3 with practical details the location publishes itself. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs.
Shooting in Switzerland pays back through the Filmstandortförderung Schweiz (FiSS) (20% (40% for minority co-productions and technical costs)): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Abbey Library of Saint Gall
Office, school & public building
Rococo library hall of 1767 in the abbey district of St. Gallen, with inlaid wood floors, galleried book walls, ceiling paintings and adjoining baroque abbey rooms.
Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio
Office, school & public building
Architecture school in Mendrisio built around a nineteenth century villa and park with newer teaching pavilions, listed among the Ticino film commission locations.
CERN
Office, school & public building
Particle physics laboratory at Meyrin on the French border, with 1950s office blocks, control rooms, assembly halls and underground experiment caverns on the accelerator ring.
ETH Zurich main building
Office, school & public building
Semper's 1864 main building of the federal technical university above central Zurich, with a domed hall, stone stairs, lecture theatres, laboratories and a terrace over the city.
Federal Palace, Bern
Office, school & public building
Seat of the Swiss parliament and government on the Aare terrace in Bern, a domed sandstone building of 1902 with two chambers, a lobby hall and a public square in front.
Palais des Nations
Office, school & public building
United Nations European headquarters in the Ariana park above Geneva, a 1930s monumental complex of assembly halls, marble corridors, council chambers and a modern extension.
Rolex Learning Center, EPFL
Office, school & public building
Single storey library and study building by SANAA on the EPFL campus at Ecublens, a continuous undulating slab with circular patios and long glazed sightlines.
Swiss National Museum, Zurich
Office, school & public building
Historicist museum castle of 1898 beside Zurich main station, with courtyards, towers, vaulted galleries and a 2016 concrete extension by Christ and Gantenbein.
USI Lugano campus
Office, school & public building
University campus in the Lugano district of Besso, with lecture blocks, courtyards and modern teaching interiors, entered in the Ticino film commission location catalogue.
Swiss Museum of Transport
Office, school & public building
Transport museum on the lake shore in Lucerne with halls of locomotives, aircraft, cable cars and cars, a planetarium and a large format cinema.
Offices, schools and public buildings elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 42
- Spain 31
- United Kingdom 31
- France 23
- Poland 18
- Austria 15
- Greece 13
- Italy 13
- Netherlands 13
- Bulgaria 12
- Croatia 11
- Czech Republic 11
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