 Construction workers put the finishing touches to the store |
The finishing touches were being put on Selfridge's newest department store in Birmingham. About 15,000 aluminium discs have been added to the outside of the unusual building to make up the "skin" of the store.
Selfridges will be one of two anchor stores to form part of the new �500m Bullring retail development in the city centre.
The 150-outlet complex is being built on the site of the 1960s Bull Ring shopping centre which was demolished in 2000.
The new Selfridges is designed to resemble a sequinned dress and is the work of architects Future Systems, who also devised the space-age media centre at Lord's cricket ground.
The Bullring retail development is expected to be opened in September.
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