The tented market, Swindon

I took a quick trip into Swindon after work to pick up some last minute essentials for "O" to take on her DoE expedition on Saturday and Sunday. We were supposed to be going to Blacks- but it is now a Clarks shoe shop!

It was such a beautiful day that even the tented market looked exotic....


More info on the market:
In 1991, Thamesdown Borough Council decided to move the market it back to its original location, and Urban Space Management won a competition to find a development partner to design, build and manage the new market. That partner was Architen Landrell.

An innovative and dynamic design was an essential part of the brief, and USM’s response was a steel-framed fabric–roofed tented structure that has become a landmark for miles around. The building was completed in six months, and its five peaks represent the fairground that was always part of market activity in country towns. The forty units comprise a wide variety of traders, from the staple to the exotic, and there are additional stalls and a performance space in the pedestrianised area outside the building

The building has remained very much the same today as it was when it was built in '94.