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  • 8 October 2014
  • Berlin

  • 6 minutes

Business / Retail

Bare essentials

Bikini Berlin is a newly redesigned complex mixing retail, culture and creative thinking about the public space. Once a fading relic of the Cold War, intelligent ideas from its new tenants are helping to redefine the shopping mall model.

  • Film-maker
    • Asami Ohkubo
  • Producer
    • Gillian Dobias
  • Correspondent
    • Kimberly Bradley

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