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...turbines and steamboats standing eerily silent. Then, in 2000, Schiffbau - a 19th century shipbuilding plant - was gutted to make way for a restaurant, jazz club and cluster of theaters. Today, nearly all of the area's brick-clad buildings have been repurposed as bars, shops and galleries, flanked by chic loft apartments. It's a transformation that's helping to turn Switzerland's largest city from a buttoned-up financial capital into something approaching a fashionable metropolis. In the past few years, Schiffbau has seen the addition of popular new bar Nietturm, tel: (41-44) 258 7077, with striking views...
...would have envisaged a hand-stitched hemp-fiber bag or mud-colored recycled stationery. But these days, the state of the planet is a broader concern, and the line between green goods and those of the regular kind is blurring. Here are four products that will make you look chic while feeling righteous...
Prefab housing. The very name conjures up boring little boxes that might be cheap but hardly chic. But now a whole range of sleek, modular factory-built designs are hitting the European market. The cutting-edge domiciles are quick to assemble, energy efficient and fitted with cool customized features. Here's a peek at some of the more intriguing prefab abodes and holiday hideaways. THE LOFTCUBE - STUDIO AISSLINGER www.aisslinger.de Inspired by Berlin's postwar high-rises, the Loftcube can be craned or helicoptered onto your rooftop as an open-space pied-à-terre or office. The "personal home container...
...brightly colored arched ceiling. Throw in the steady beat of minimal techno and house and a mixed-age crowd, and you've got one of central Berlin's hippest watering holes. Wuergeengel 122 Dresdener Strasse, wuergeengel.de A Kreuzberg institution, this old-fashioned, wood-paneled bar trumps the pretentious chic often found in new locations in the former East Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. It's elegant drinking in a rough part of town. Green Door 50 Winterfeldtstrasse, greendoor.de Ring the bell on the aforementioned door to get in, and sit at either the long wooden...
...While that may be a tad hyperbolic, the cooking of chef Michele Pavanello will certainly have you fumbling for superlatives. Dishes like sea urchin spaghetti, or Stracchino cheese and Parma ham with saut?ed mushrooms on a rosemary crisp lure a glamorous crowd, as do the sea views and a chic dining room with furnishings by the likes of Arne Jacobsen and Antonio Citterio...