There are several Team Disney buildings throughout the Walt Disney Company, the first of which is the Team Disney Building in Burbank with its Seven Dwarfs as pillars. Michael Eisner's request of architect Michael Graves (who also did the Swan and Dolphin resorts at Walt Disney World) was fairly simple: "I have only one requirement. I know I'm going to drive to work and park my car every day. I want you to make me smile, because I know I'm going to have an extraordinarily difficult day."
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki was called upon to design the Team Disney building in Orlando. Isozaki offered three concepts—a mid-rise complex in the shape of fans as well as a high-rise design. When Michael Eisner chose the low-rise concept, Isozaki agreed that it was also his favorite, and Isozaki then set to work on what that concept would look like.
In Beth Dunlop's book, Building a Dream: The Art of Disney's Architecture, Disney's head architectural leader, Wing Chao, said Isozaki "came back with this yin-yang theory of positive and negative space, with a central tower that was very powerful, sculptural, looking toward the sky."