GERMANY ISSUE 89 Oct 2007

East: restaurant, bar, lounge and hotel.

Design hotel and bar hot-spot East features 125 rooms, lofts and suites in one of Hamburg's most innovatively daring structures. Housed in a former iron foundry, the hotel blends gastronomy, hospitality and nightlife around a three-storey restaurant. Four interior pillars tower over what was the main factory hall, while dramatically lit sections of the original foundations divide the candlelight restaurant area. Guests are also welcome to visit the hotel's private cinema.

Rooms display futuristic, curving forms and bright tones in a cosmopolitan, transcontinental design language. They all have king-size beds, cable TV, telephone, minibar, safe, PC socket, shower or full bath, and separate WC. The hotel now also offers apartments for long stay guests.

Opening at the end of the year will be an exciting new sporting and spa club.