It formerly served as the headquarters of the Swiss industrial engineering firm Sulzer and was the first-ever high-rise building in the country.

[2] The Sulzer high-rise building is located in the Neuwiesen district of Winterthur on an open area west of Neuwiesenstrasse.

The development was originally intended to be a double high-rise complex, however the land plot purchased adjacently was never used for a second building.

After some major changes in the Sulzer Group took place in the late 1990s, the building became redundant and was unused for years, except for floor-by-floor rentals.

The company's sole shareholder was the private Foundation for Art, Culture and History, whose president at the time was Swiss real estate investor Bruno Stefanini.

Asbestos was removed, the building services were renewed, the thermal insulation was improved and the windows and elevators were replaced.

[12] In the evenings and mornings of the Advent weekends and at the New Year's Eve, the Sulzer building is illuminated from the inside on all sides according to the theme.