No Fixed Abode

It took less than an hour and I have finished it all before Christmas eve. With the Christmas shopping out of the way I had a look around a city that in places is so familiar but in others completely unrecognisable. The geography itself, not just the buildings and facades, has changed. I found myself wandering and wondering around the new shopping mall. You may have seen it on TV or in the papers, probably titled “Another Example of the Ridiculous”. I could go on about how it is the new hub of globalisation, or the biggest shrine to consumerism in the city but I found myself strangely lost in the architecture. Curves on curves and circles in circles. Blobs and lots of them. Ergonomic design gone huge. Exactly what is it all made of?! I am not sure but I was reminded of failing to realise anything out of Fimo as a kid. A novelty piece that I am sure will end up as dated and repulsive as the former Bull Ring was, quite soon. I may be wrong but that will mean a metropolitan world of giant glass, steel and polymer clay blobs.