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SI-Centrum (in
German)
Restaurants
at SI-Centrum
Marktplatz
Time Square
Brasserie Le Jardin
Wiener Kaffeehaus
Don Giovanni
Intermezzo Bar
The Dubliner Irish Pub
Die Wienstube
Bistro Ecco
Backstage/Phantom Bar
Hausbrauerei Schloßturm
Biergarten Schloßturm
Kaffeeösterei Café Olé
Patisserie Lenôtre
Sylter Fischmarkt
Enoteca
Vampir Bar
Hit-Radio Antenne 1 Caféteria
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ere's a sneak preview of the ILDA 2000 conference site. Click on
any of the photos for a full-sized view.
SI-Centrum complex
The SI-Centrum ("Center") complex features hotels,
themed restaurants, hotels, movies, theatre and shopping. It can
best be described as "Disney meets Broadway with a German
accent."

One of the two hotel towers at the SI-Centrum. A
horizontal and vertical photo were joined to make this panorama,
explaining the large gray gap at lower left.
There are two hotels, the
Copthorne SI Classic (a tall squareish building not shown here) and the Copthorne SI Standard
(the tall oblong set of buildings shown above).
When you go to check in, be sure you are at the correct hotel --
Classic or Standard. Otherwise, it will take some walking to get
from one to the other!

A dusk view of the theatre complex across the street from the
hotels. On the top of the building at left can be seen two signs
with white and red neon. These are for "Disney's Die Schöne
und Das Biest", a German production of "Beauty and the
Beast".
The "MaxX Filmpalast"
building houses six movie theatres, all of which are showing
American films like "X-Men" dubbed into German. Although
the name implies IMAX, there is no IMAX movie theater at the
SI-Centrum.
The final theatre,
currently showing the play "Tanz Der Vampire" ("Dance
of the Vampire") is located on the hotel side, near the Hotel
SI Copthorne Classic.

A view of the nearby B27 highway and countryside, taken
from the 10th floor.

The Pangolin Meeting will take place here in the Brighton
conference room (Konferenzräume). It is very easy to find. Here are
directions:
One of the main
restaurants in the SI-Centrum is Time Square. (It is not Times
Square but Time singular. This is because there is a pendulum-type
wall clock which dominates this open-air atrium-style restaurant.)
The Time Square restaurant is well-marked, at the Hotel Copthorne SI
Classic end of the Colonnaden shopping walk. Next to Time Square is
a curving staircase and a bank of hotel elevators. Either walk up
the stairs or take the elevators to the next level up. From the
stairs, turn left; from the elevators, turn right. You will see the
Berliner room almost immediately.
In the photo panorama
above, the windows on the right look out over the Time Square
restaurant. Through the windows on the left, you can see the
"Beauty and the Beast" logos on the theatre across the
street.
ILDA Trade Show, October 6

The ILDA Trade Show takes place in the Berlin
Konferenzräume. Shown above is the entrance, in the UG
underground shopping plaza which goes between the hotel-Colonnaden
area, to the Broadway and movie theaters.

The photo above shows Harald Bohlinger and Lutz Bartl of HB
Laserkomponenten standing with a hotel representative in the area
that will be the Pangolin booth.

The world headquarters of DaimlerChrysler is almost
directly across the street from the SI-Centrum. Note the large
rotating Mercedes-Benz logo. It is illuminated at night; perhaps the
ultimate status symbol.
There is a Mercedes-Benz
shop in the UG underground shopping plaza, so you can get your fix
of three-pointed-star themed merchandise.
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