The vestibule originally led to a pedestrian retail arcade running through the center of the building.
Last spring, he began converting it to a two-story retail arcade.
Currently, the building is used as offices, with a retail arcade on the ground floor.
In September 1937, while the building was still under construction, the University held a competition to design friezes for the ground level retail arcade.
The second level of the retail arcade, the basement restaurant and the observation tower are no longer open to public access.
The ground level retail arcade is still in use and several office levels are still occupied.
A number of the buildings are to be connected with retail arcades.
There are traditional retail arcades and markets such as the one at Obor.
The ground floor housed a retail arcade and the top three floors were offices.
When his plans for rebuilding settled upon a retail arcade, its name seemed obvious.