The building was designed in the Neoclassical style, featuring cornices, arches, columns and a hexagonal pavilion on the roof, which may be a reference to the Tiger Balm bottle.
[1] The building is among the few pre-World War II structures in Singapore to feature a flat roof.
[3] Aw Boon Haw soon filed a lawsuit against a medical hall of the same name which had been established earlier at nearby 132-134 Tanjong Pagar Road, demanding that the older business change its name.
[1] On 10 August 1961, a fire resulted in the building resilted in the destruction of $3,000 worth of Chinese medicinal products.
[10] On 4 December 2019, American fast casual chain Shake Shack announced that it would be opening its second Singaporean outlet in the building.