This innovative Westside building, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, is a shopping center, multiplex cinema and restaurant, hotel and conference centre, adventure pool, spa and fitness center – all in one. The facade of the large building is encased in Robinia wood, which blends in the complex with the countryside to the west. The crystal blocks that form vertical platforms in the shopping centre, break through the right-angled system of the building like massive rocks and bathe the interior with daylight. "There's nothing like this anywhere else in the world," explains Daniel Libeskind. "This seamless coexistence of shopping centre, senior citizens' residence, hotel and leisure facilities in harmony with nature and buildings in the old part of Bern close by is unique." www.westside.ch