The impact of the block is blunted by a curved podium with a facade of plate glass set into glass bricks.
The slab itself is formed from a steel armature of standardized elements, yet the building still makes a less memorable claim on the ideal of standardization than its much less standardized 1920s precedents, let alone its more polemical cousins, the Pavillon Suisse and the Cité de Refuge.
The apartments are double-height and have terraces made from cantilevered extensions of the slabs... The slabs in turn protect the facade from the elements and support colored awnings against the rays of the sun. There was a tentative beginning here of the idea of a sun-shade facade.'