Bâtiment des Forces Motrices

The Bâtiment des Forces Motrices (BFM) is one of Geneva's most extraordinary cultural venues — a 19th-century industrial building, originally designed to power the city's water system, that has been transformed into an opera and concert hall of unique acoustic beauty. The vaulted cast-iron interior, deliberately preserved in its industrial character, creates a setting of rare dramatic power. Opera performances, chamber concerts, jazz evenings, and private events inhabit this space with equal ease, the architecture adding a layer of historical resonance to every programme. The BFM regularly hosts OWNYTE-style exclusive evening events combining performance with intimate dining. For OWNYTE, BFM is the cultural experience of Geneva: a venue where the building itself is the spectacle, before a note has been played.