Lyons being the partner in charge and architects Frank Linden and Aubrey Hume also assigned to the job.

[2] The building comprises 184 apartments and sixteen retail outlets, three of which are designated as cafés or restaurants.

The architects' use of white concrete was intended to be sympathetic to older civic buildings which dominate the city centre.

[2] According to the Royal Institute of British Architects' Book of British Housing, the flats were intended to house professionals, and as a result "every detail was designed for a quality finish including the powerful, sculpted form of the building".

[3] Wyndham Court received an Architectural Design Project award in 1966 and was Grade II listed in 1998[2] despite opposition from the local press.