RISING reverses common sense.

This monolithic structure was an abandoned supermarket when I arrived, but with the addition of a multi-storey car park and a makeover it's become the Japanese version of an entertainment centre.

Upon walking through the doors you are assailed by a wall of sound, a deafening cacophony which can only mean one thing - a pachinko parlour. This is the insanely popular art of feeding thousands of ball-bearings into a machine and watching them bounce down in the hopes of scoring prizes. The empty seat you see here is an anomaly that lasted only a few seconds... dozens of people were waiting for spaces to open up, despite the entire floor being covered with identical machines.

Given that this is an entirely new structure, and that it's name is supposed to be an acronym, you would have expected that a little English-checking at the planning stage wouldn't have gone amiss... I have a feeling that since it got through a spell-checker it was deemed correct!