The Events Venue brief proposes a unique marriage of shopping and exhibitions. The Halls are comparatively small (5200 sqm) and will draw on the rapidly growing market for consumer focused exhibitions. As a civic object this brief places the building somewhere between a department store and town hall. The form is defined by a large metallic ribbon, which defines all of the parts of the programme. This sinuous form starts in the existing South Mall as a sculptural form, then becomes an internal ceiling, the roof of a public plaza and halls and at its end forms the back wall of the building. The bright yellow Gallery beam provides an urban focus to what will become the Leisure Hub of Bluewater. It can be seen on entry from the outside and is then in view from the South Mall across the Plaza. This will be a large, bright and vibrant space with restaurants at its perimeter. The focus of the space is a broad public stair with places to sit and enjoy the activities of the Plaza. A concourse on the first floor provides crush space for the Halls and Cinemas. The Halls are treated as black boxes to provide a relatively neutral environment for the theatre of the exhibitions.