The frontage of the building was designed in the style of English renaissance, and comprised a row of arches on the building's ground floor, colonnades on three floors, and an ornamental cornice projecting seven feet.
Both the floors and the walls of the building were made of different types of marble, and the ceiling was decorated with mosaics.
[1] The proposal for a new building in Collyer Quay was made by the Union Insurance Society of Canton in February 1922.
[1] The official opening ceremony of the building was held on 26 September 1925 at noon.
[9] Tenants of the building at that time included Boustead & Co., the Far East Shipping Company, Ben Line Steamers, Fraser and Company, Peat Marwick and Mitchell, and Suckling and McDonald.