It was opened in 1978, its height to the roof is 140 m, and its total architecural height is 150 m. Chałubińskiego 8 (originally known as Intraco II) was designed in the International Style by Wojciech Grzybowski, Jerzy Janczak, Jerzy Skrzypczak, Halina Świergocka-Kaim, and Jan Zdanowicz.

It was constructed between 1975 and 1978, by a Sweden-based BPA Byggproduktion AB, in the location of the former Warsaw Pomological Garden, that was destroyed in the World War II.

[1][2] The building was envisioned as the headquarters of the Bank Handlowy, and the international trade hub, as well as a part of the Western Wall, an architectural complex, that also includes the LIM Center.

It has 46 storyes, and additional two underground, and the total usable area of 70,000 m².

[4] Together with LIM Centre, it forms the Western Wall architectural complex.