Similar to the building's model, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, the passage is delimited by street facades drawn inwards.

As a second construction phase, the arm of the arcade gallery from the rotunda to Neumarkt was built shortly afterwards, so that the floor plan was expanded to an L. It was not until 1963-65, when the exhibition center Messehaus am Markt of the Leipzig Trade Fair was built, that the third arm of the arcade gallery was added to Petersstrasse, creating today's T-shape.

The upper floors offer, among other things, space for offices, the Sanftwut cabaret and an art room measuring 250 m2 (2,691.0 sq ft).

The arched portal at the passage entrance is flanked by two life-size female figures in robes carrying grapes and a vase.

[7] "These events went down as spectacular criminal case in the German economic history and are reminiscent of the unrestrained private investments during the building boom in the early 1990s".

[9] In december 2023, activists of the Last Generation (climate movement) sprayed paint on the christmas tree in the rotunda of the Mädler Arcade Gallery.