It sits on the historic site of the East India Docks and is currently occupied as a multi-use innovation campus with both education and office space.

Following the dock's closure in 1967,[1] the site was redeveloped in the 1990s as an office campus providing disaster recovery space for businesses at Canary Wharf.

Recognition that businesses were increasingly being "priced-out" of the City of London and tech-capital Shoreditch[2] motivated the site's transformation into an affordable workplace.

[4] Extensive landscaping was instigated along existing waterways and plans submitted to construct Europe's longest open-air swimming pool.

British artist Scott King designed the building's facade, referencing the socialist Project Cybersyn and pictorial depictions of Utopia.