This is Bracknell's "The Market": easily the grandest and most ambitious structure ever created by mankind. It's so big, you can't fit it into one picture; or even two pictures. The image below represents about 13% of the total surface area of the front wall.
Ever mindful of its commitment to space age technology, Bracknell's town council installed huge gravity modulating machines next to the front doors, shifting the gravitational force inside the building through 90 degrees such that the outside wall you are looking at now became the ceiling. Once powered, the inside of The Market became, instantly and literally, the largest vertical market in the world. Within hours of opening, the back wall, i.e. the floor, became a bustling, air conditioned shoppers' paradise several hundreds of acres in size: a bustling hive of constantly eating customers humming about on moon scooters, fast food, weapon dogs, designer labels and electronic gadgets. Within a year of opening, The Market won the CBI's award for the best venue for consumers to wander about aimlessly trying to find something to buy a bit newer and more "awesome" than the same sort of thing they and their friends already have but which will certainly be superseded within a few months by another thing nearly the same but a bit newer and more "awesome".
Sadly, having served the Bracknellian community loyally for almost 50 trouble-free years, The Market is due to be demolished. A terrible disaster resulting from a power cut caused the gravity modulators to fail and approximately 2,000 moon scooters fell hundreds of feet into an enormous stack of broken wheels, handlebars, nuclear power units, half eaten burgers, horrifically hot apple turnovers, electronic gadgets and flaccid, jelly like corpses. It took International Rescue at least two episodes of Thunderbirds to clear the mess. There are, as yet, no plans to rebuild The Market.
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