A doggedly hip shopping and design hub tries to inject life into a once-symbolic corner of Berlin

摘要

A few years ago, if you'd passed by the Zentrum am Zoo complex along Budapester Strasse, you would have been greeted by a friendly face. A glass-encased advertisement for a nearby Chinese restaurant framed a grinning portrait of German actor and comedian Harald Juhnke, gleefully tucking into a meal of Peking duck. The sign, anchored to a rounded, ground-level column of an aging building of some repute, had become an unassuming and unlikely landmark of the City West district.