Nottingham, UK

The central focal point of the City is Old Market Square which is the largest in the UK and is dominated by the Council House, which replaced The Nottingham Exchange Building, built in 1726. This was built in the 1920s to display civic pride, ostentatiously using baroque columns and placing stone statues of two lions at the front to stand watch over the square. The Exchange Arcade on the ground floor is an upmarket shopping containing high-end boutiques. Portland Stone was used to construct the Council House and Exchange Arcade.