Westside Mall, by Studio Daniel Libeskind. (image by Ute Bauer)
Completed in October 2008, the Westside shopping and leisure complex in the outskirts of Bern is Libeskind’s first finished building in Europe, purely dedicated to a commercial program. The architecture and design of the building has strong similarities to Libeskind’s museum projects like the Jewish Museum Berlin or the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück.(source: waybackmaschine, Website Studio Libeskind, from Sep.22, 2001)"Ever since I began architecture, I had an abhorrence to conventional architecture offices. There was something about the atmosphere of redundancy ,routine and production that made me allergic to all forms of specialization and so-called professionalism. Ten years ago we founded our office in Berlin as a result of a decision, an accident, a rumor on the street and began an unimaginable journey down a path on which we are still traveling."
Westside offers a book shop devoted to the architecture of the shopping mall and the architecture of Daniel Libeskind.
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