It was designed by architects George Chakhava and Zurab Jalaghania[1] for the Ministry of Highway Construction of the Georgian SSR and finished in 1975.

[2] In July 2010 the building was the site of a contemporary art exhibition, "Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back".

George Chakhava (გიორგი ჩახავა) studied architecture at the State Polytechnical University in Tbilisi and graduated in 1949.

Since then he has worked as an architect with his own studio and realized projects in Georgia as well as in Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Latvia.

The inspiration for his architecture was "the unique nature of my country with its individuality and beauty of each region in harmony with mountain villages",[5] the design is also greatly influenced by El Lissitzky and Suprematism.

Between the earth and crowns there is a lot of free space for other living beings, which create one harmonious world with the forest.

Le Corbusier worked theoretically on the "house on pilotis" and realized this idea for example from 1947 on in the Unité d'Habitation.

A current example is the Musée du quai Branly by Jean Nouvel in Paris, where a garden lies beneath a building.

He also divided the cores and office areas in vertical and horizontal elements as an antithesis to the American concept of the skyscraper.

Based on the use of fairfaced concrete and the sharp, geometrical volumes, the building can also be considered as part of the Brutalism movement.

Between Brutalism and Structuralism similar buildings were also built in other countries, for example the Yamanashi Communication Centre in Kofu by Kenzo Tange or Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie, both finished in 1967.

[9] There is a version of some of the structural ideas of this project in the "Tree of Life" (Árbol de la vida) building in Lecherias, Venezuela, by Venezuelan architect Fruto Vivas.