Chambers hopes to turn the lower levels of the station into a museum and exhibition space, and build a restaurant and rooftop bar higher up.

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Beyonce posed for pictures with local schoolchildren while Jay-Z puffed on a Cuban cigar, and then they popped into another restaurant that boasts a rooftop terrace with a sweeping view of the harbor.

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Part of designer-turned-restaurateur Sir Terence Conran's new Boundary Project, which also includes a French fine-dining restaurant, rooftop bar-grill, and 17 hotel rooms in a converted Victorian warehouse, Albion serves gussied-up British pub fare to artsy neighborhood types.

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The communal areas are filled with fun: table tennis here, a pool table there, and there is a fine rooftop bar which doubles as the hostel's restaurant.

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All residents, both in the apartments and the hotel, have access to the Cowshed Spa and gym, rooftop pool, Cookhouse restaurant, House Tonic bar and a screening room, but the apartments offer extra amenities such as grocery delivery and a fully stocked kitchen, as well as reduced rates for longer stays.

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The owners, Jamie Vipond and Matthew Bohner who also run the rooftop Mexican restaurant Alma double as woodworkers, and, according to a server, built the place.

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