The project is located on a key site in the Lujiazhui financial and trade district in Pudong, which the Chinese government has designated as an Asian center for international banking and commercial interests. The program of this 95-story project is contained within two distinctly formal elements, a sculpted tower and a podium.

LERA’s structural design calls for a megastructure consisting of composite perimeter columns, one at each corner of the rectilinear base and six as the floor plan morphs into a six-sided form at higher elevations. Diagonal perimeter braces zigzag up the faces, connecting mega-columns vertically and connecting steel belt trusses horizontally. The building has a reinforced concrete services core, which interacts with the exterior framing through outrigger trusses that span from the core to the belt trusses.