Initially designed as a rectangular building , the plan was changed when it was set out at site. A disused well was found in the front corner where the building was planned. The owner, a Parsee lady, did not want to build over the well that she considered sacred. The building was, therefore, re-designed.

The front corner was cut away and concaved to provide an entrance to the building from a forecourt. The wall of the garages on the front edge of the plot is stretched across the full width of the site . The wall is provided with two entrances - a wide square headed car entry and narrower arched pedestrian opening. The wall defines the edge of the forecourt through which the building is entered.

The building is designed for a single apartment on each floor. As was usual at the time, the apartments are large and intended for well-to-do families with live-in domestic help. The entry to the apartment is through a vestibule in the middle with living and dining room facing the street and the principal bedrooms to the rear of the plot. The main bedroom is oriented seawards and is apsidal as is the verandah outside it. The entry, which is at a lower level, accommodates parking and servants' rooms as also a two bedroom apartment.

Balconies echoing the curve of the building enhance the corner. The convex verandah of the first floor apartment forms an elaborately detailed and ornamental entrance canopy. These features, along with the design of verandah railing and lettering on the compound wall, make a remarkable facade which is modern. The marble flooring patterns in the entrance hall and the decorative door to the lift are suggestive of Art Deco.

Subsequent changes include a penthouse apartment, trellis work over the garages, apsidal verandah at the rear and alteration to the front wall of the forecourt . These do not however mar the original design.