Red Square, Square on a university campus in Seattle, United States

Red Square, officially Central Plaza, is a broad open square on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. It is paved with red bricks and connects the Liberal Arts Quadrangle with the engineering and science areas on the lower campus.

The site once held a temporary government building for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and later became an open field known as Suzzallo Quadrangle. In 1969 the field was excavated for an underground parking garage, and the red bricks were laid over it.

Students often use the open space to meet, study, or hand out flyers, and the red bricks have become a symbol of campus life. The name stuck after a student newspaper editor persuaded everyone to call it Red Square.

The bricks become very slippery when wet, so watch your step after rain. The square is open at all hours and serves as a useful landmark for finding your way around campus.

Three brick monoliths stand at the northwest corner; one is a vent for the parking garage below, while the other two were added purely for looks. The name may also echo Moscow's Red Square, a nod to the student activism of the 1950s and 60s.