The department store stands next to the Tauentzienpalast, one of the most successful commercial buildings of the 1920s designed by architects Bielenberg and Moser, and the KaDeWe department store by Schaudt from 1906/07, which was renovated in the 1950s by architect Soll. The volume of the six-story structure comprises two facades, which are monumentally and decoratively framed by a concrete structural system. This is made of prefabricated parts, where columns span a height of 23 meters at the bottom. These concrete columns kink at the fifth floor and retreat twice by 1.5 m backward to imitate old hip roofs or to bring their mass closer to KaDeWe in the urban space. The inner facade of the building, whose load-bearing frame is represented by a prestressed reinforced concrete structure, consists of simple glazing extending the full height of the floor. In front of it and between the columns hangs a curtain made of steel and wavy glass. It is suspended at an angle (still vertically in the upper sections) and protrudes 3 meters into the street like a canopy. The mutual penetration of the vertical concrete structure and the glass wall (which is meant to give the multinational clothing house an individual and symbolic expression) appears, considering the context and tension of the place in the shopping area, urbanistically and architecturally satisfactory.