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Written by Ken Hamel
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
Swimming Pool at Daniel Libeskind's Swiss "Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre"
Pointy edges? check... Prone to expensive repairs? likely... Vertigo inducing interior space? absolutely... Daniel Libeskind, the architect behind the Denver Art Museum's eclectic 2006 addition, extends his portfolio with a new Belmar style mall on the outskirts of Bern, Switzerland. The quasi-urban "Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre" opened earlier this week and includes "55 shops, 10 restaurants and bars, hotel, multiplex cinema, fun bath with wellness and fitness center and senior residency." Let's hope the commercial establishments that will inhabit the new mall have a good stomach for the maintenance headaches that Libeskind's unconventional (yet inevitably endearing) design has wrought on the DAM.
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