Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre

The corridors divide each floor into four areas further subdivided into spaces for shops of a flexible size.

At the ground floor level, sunk below the pavement level, the shops open onto the road sides as well as to the internal passage. The outward setting is limited by a pedestrian terrace with access down ramps or steps from the pavement level or directly from underground facilities.

The top shopping floor is lit by natural light through rooflights (screened by fibrous plaster louvres) and there are large openings in the floor through which light penetrates to the floor below. Car parking space is provided in the basement.

Four vertical service cores containing stairs, service lifts and lavatories are located in a central position on each of the four areas at every level. Two of these vertical cores rise above the shopping level to provide access to an eleven-storey office tower, which is set back from the roads to overcome noise.