Pierre d’Avoine Architects

London

Pierre d’Avoine Architects was commissioned to prepare designs for the transformation of the Elephant and Castle roundabouts and transport interchange by the Government Office for London, The Architecture Foundation and the London Borough of Southwark. We developed the concept of an ‘urban pier’ which allowed safe, unhindered pedestrian movement above the traffic and provided a venue for shopping and festive events. This was combined with a programme for refurbishing the environment of the roundabouts including resurfacing of the ground plane as a ‘carpet’ to form a new ‘room in the city’.