The Banke Bazaar is a crescent structure built on a man-made plateau. It transitions between the Slope and Low Valley, where past collaborative efforts were employed to move enough earth to form a flat region for the market and meeting-place to be built. Its sandstone formation foots the Slope and tops the Low Valley. Two arms reach from the central three-story structure to nearly circle a domed rotunda. The tops of the colonnades are walkways, where one can always relax on its benches among potted flora and observe the people coming and going below. During celebrations they are topped with revelers, near bursting into the full courtyard below. The rotunda is often a meeting place excepting such celebrations, when it often houses live bands. Its copper roof glints warmly in the sun, as do the copper eaves of the main structure, the top story of which is a covered walkway and porch. The covered interior of the arms of the colonnade are continuously filled with people bartering and selling jewelery, figurines, chickens and hingles, cheeses, and anything else for all occasions. It is a community shopping center for all tribes.

The main structure is roofed traditionally, with sweeping roof lines that slope upward. The warm sandstone columns are large, bulging creatures footed with round designs, and topped with more angular icons, carved with geometric designs and painted with bright oranges, reds, and yellows. The underside of the roofed colonnade is painted in angular, geometric patterns in a similar palette, sometimes with the occasional green or blue. The muted palette is almost an apology for its excessively vibrant company.

"Pheasant here! Bring home this big, beautiful bird! Stew him in a pot! Roast him in the oven! He'll feed four famished family members!"

"Four indeed! That sound exactly right for what I need."

"Good woman, that seems a generous deal. Will you at least take some of the blackberries? They are from my own plot, and easily replaced."

"In fact, if you have a taste for gardening, we might make arrangements for regular trade of seeds and supplies. I often have guests for meals and the meat is a welcome addition to the fruits of the field."