Royal Exchange Theatre

The Royal Exchange is marked by a vast, classical stone exterior that looms over the city center, but its most striking interior feature is a seven-sided steel and glass theater module that appears to hang suspended in mid-air. Built between eighteen sixty-seven and eighteen seventy-four, this structure once functioned as the largest trading hall in the world. Thousands of cotton merchants gathered here every week to negotiate deals that made Manchester the heart of the global textile trade.