The building is located at one of the last riverside properties in the Lujiazui Financial District which symbolizes like no other area the economic growth and rise of China with iconic buildings like Jin Mao Building and the Shanghai World Finance Centre. The project is developed by Foxconn as a prime office building. The design architect Kris Yao Artech created a comparatively transparent façade with high quality standards fulfilling the thermal requirements in Shanghai.

The building envelope is designed with an externally ventilated double-skin façade with a unitized outer skin and a window wall as the internal façade. The outer skin features the panel mullions, transoms and the entire panels with different angles creating a very distinct pattern. The distance between the exterior façade and the interior façade varies between 300 mm and 600 mm. The mullions of the outer skin are vertically inclined by 72.49 degrees, whereas the transoms are horizontally (in-/outside) off-set by 15.95 degrees. The entire panel is inclined by 94.93 degrees. Everything is repeated in a zig-zag pattern, creating a very distinct geometric pattern highlighted by the different daylight situations. In order to achieve the appearance requested by the architect, very close tolerances of the butt joints were respected throughout installation. Special static requirements such as increased wind loads had to be met.