Westside is a shopping and leisure center in Brünnen, on the western outskirts of Bern, designed by Daniel Libeskind. It was completed in October 2008. The article describes the complex as crystalline and says its window pattern evokes Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin. It gives no start date, opening date, owner or dimensions.
A steel-concrete skeleton supports a wooden facade. The center is built over a motorway and overlooks an S-Bahn station. Cuts in the roof bring daylight into two plazas, one facing the Brünnen landscape and linked to the bath, the other beside the hotel and cinema. It has shops, restaurants, a swimming pool, conference spaces, homes, a hotel and fitness centers.
Critic David Rogers said it was not integrated into the city and hurt the center, while Barbara Holzer defended it. Peter Keller of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung said it suited its surroundings. The article gives no hours.
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