Downtown, the intricate complex of rooftop galleries and terraces on the Cities Service Building is being renovated into a three-story lounge and restaurant.
The rooftop viewing gallery has closed for the day when I visit, but at least missing the world-famous view has saved me a few euros.
John Matthews Hatton designed the center, using recessed glass-block walls and a rooftop observation gallery with parabolic arches that support a cantilevered canopy on the roof.
Mr Robinson, an "entrepreneur, author and anthropologist", pledged that the giant shed would include an "intimate restaurant with a changing programme of chefs in residence, an armchair cinema, a 3D printing and fabrication lab, a rooftop garden, galleries and a dozen atmospheric spaces hosting events in everything from photojournalism to ceramics, from breaking news to works of fiction".
On the grid of streets running northeast of Berea you can eat Ethiopian food in a weekly market, drink cocktails on a rooftop, browse galleries and boutiques and witness the area's dynamic reinvention on a guided tour.
It has lively club nights or, for calmer moments, a bookshop, art gallery, rooftop bar and chic minimalist restaurant.
The car was displayed on the rooftop of a gallery building here in Chelsea, against a backdrop of wooden water towers and blue September skies.
It is also here that acclaimed chef Luke Dale-Roberts has two restaurants: The Test Kitchen (book months in advance to sample his hugely inventive menus) and his glass rooftop bar and gallery, The Pot Luck Club, serving small plates.
Meta House (meta-house.com), a large art gallery, rooftop cinema and restaurant housed in a gleaming white 500 sq m space in the heart of the city, has been at the forefront of raising the profile of Cambodia's contemporary artists.
