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Rooms, rooftops, restaurants, and spaces worth understanding before you book or build around them.

Industrial hall at Berlin Atonal 2015 with lighting and a crowd

Rooms built for something else

The most talked-about events of the last few years are happening in places designed for heat, cargo, cars and exhibitions. Here is what they have in common, and what to ask before you book one.

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The Great Hall at Alexandra Palace filled with beds and soft lamplight during Max Richter's SLEEP

Max Richter's SLEEP: 900 beds and an eight-hour lullaby at Alexandra Palace

On 5 and 6 September 2025, Max Richter marked ten years of SLEEP by filling the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace with beds and playing until the light came up.

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Projected visuals and a crowd inside the Berlin Atonal festival hall in 2015

Berlin Atonal: five days of noise in a power station

Berlin Atonal fills the concrete halls of Kraftwerk Berlin with commissioned sound, projection and installation. Here is what the room does to the programme.

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The white Integratron dome in the Mojave desert at Landers, California, with palms and a wooden fence

The Integratron: a sound bath under a wooden dome in the Mojave

George Van Tassel said visitors from Venus gave him the plans. What he built in Landers, near Joshua Tree, is a 38-foot dome where quartz bowls now ring.

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The interior of Bar Basso in Milan with a long bar and warm lighting

Bar Basso: where Milan Design Week goes after dark

Every Salone del Mobile, the design world ends up at Bar Basso in Città Studi. The reason is a room, a drink and a crowd that spills onto the street.

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The Rosa Bonheur guinguette in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, seen from across the lawn

Rosa Bonheur: the guinguette inside Paris's wildest park

Rosa Bonheur sits inside the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in the 19th arrondissement, a terrace above the waterfalls that does Sundays as well as anyone in Paris.

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Guests in loungers watching a screen on a rooftop with the London skyline behind them

Rooftop Cinema Club, Peckham: a screen above Rye Lane

The roof of the Bussey Building in Peckham reopened for summer 2026 as a cinema, bar and, in tournament season, a place to watch the match.

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Berlin skyline and TV tower at sunset seen over a wooden fence from the Klunkerkranich rooftop

Klunkerkranich: the rooftop garden on a Neukölln parking deck

Klunkerkranich sits on top of the Neukölln Arcaden shopping centre. It is a garden, a stage and a place where underground Berlin meets the skyline.

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Rooftop event space with city skyline at dusk

Hidden Gems: Rooftop Venues in Downtown

Discover the most breathtaking rooftop venues our city has to offer. From sunset cocktail hours to starlit dinners, these spaces redefine urban elegance.

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