The building was designed by Georg Varhelyi and Carl-Axel Acking.
The facade of the building has been renovated many times, but has kept its characteristic decorations with blue-gray details.
On the corner towards Folkungagatan there was an entry to the Medborgarplatsen metro station on the Stockholm metro already from the beginning, and there was an office of the Stockholm Savings Bank with a direct entrance from the street and the hotel lobby.
The Federation of International Bandy was founded in a meeting at the hotel in February 1955.
The small hotel bar has a concert stage.