[10] The urban planning classification and the distinctive architectural expressiveness resulted from the choice of location, the functional requirements and the applied building technology processes.

[11] The name Wintergartenhochhaus refers as well as the name of the street to a garden laid out there in 1809 which its owner Christian August Breiter let furnish with green houses (in German: Wintergarten) for exotic plants.

[12] The building was built on the site between Schützenstraße (formerly Hintergasse) and his former garden complex, which in the first third of the 19th century extended to the Back Gate of the town's fortification – roughly to the junction with today's Chopinstraße.

In the course of the development of the Ostvorstadt at this point with the Krystallpalast (Crystal Palace)[13] and residential buildings, the two hotels "Continental" and "Stadt Rom"[14] were built at the end of the century near the station at the beginning of Wintergartenstraße.

The urban-architectural draft from the years 1967/1968 comes from Horst Siegel together with Ambros G. Gross, Frieder Gebhardt, Georg Eichhorn, Hans-Peter Schmiedel and Manfred Zumpe.

The draft processing and implementation planning was in the hands of Frieder Gebhardt, Hartmut Stüber, Reinhard Vollschwitz, Achim Schulz and Friedhard Schinkitz.

Due to the difficult ground conditions, it had to be erected in a concrete floor trough, which required subsoil drilling down to a depth of 50 m (160 ft).

[18] In it were the "shopping center at the main station"[19] (self-service department store), the restaurant "City of Dresden"[20] with 220 seats, a post office and a "Mocha milk bar".