[4] The architectural style was understated elegant conventional mall, with flooring continually updated until its present condition of polished Indonesian marble and granite.

The architecture roughly imitated Dutch colonial large-scale warehouses with extensive steel-truss interpretation of Dutch structural timberwork for an innovative illuminating central skylight (double-glazed for minimizing heat transfer) and featured three airy floors of shopping with a narrow open-floor gallery (made safe via decorative fencing).

Originally, the site was a random mixture of open fields, slums, middle-class dwellings and traditional warungs and eateries.

It was a hated eyesore that generated vast amounts of litter, untreated stormwater and traffic congestion.

PIM 3 was developed in the second half of 2016, after the success of closing the roof of Pondok Indah Residences.

[7] Above the connection bridge between PIM 3 and 2, there is an open-air public space and a small flower garden called "Love on Top" (LoT).