What kind of building "style" should be used in the Alps? This question has been persistently answered with a combination of Engadine houses and "jumbo chalets" since the 1960s. However, another alternative tradition, which became popular in Engadin around 1870, after disastrous fires in Zernez and Lavin, has a more contemporary appeal. Builders from the south imported tall houses with elegant proportions, upright window shapes, and flat roofs to the high valley. The two new tower-like houses on the western periphery of St. Moritz have been constructed according to this tradition. Here, they are able to resist the architectural currying to a supposedly foreign taste.

The two houses are slightly staggered, relative to one another, so that neither block the other one's sunlight, nor obstructs the view. Combined with the warm grey plaster of the facades, the French windows, with white metal frames and aluminium blinds, conspire to lend the houses a reserved appearance. The prominent, large-scale panorama windows on the corners of the building also bear witness to a historical tradition. They represent the contemporary interpretation of the so-called "balcun tort", the false balcony, in the language of modern architecture.

One enters the building via an entrance hall in the foundation plinth, which spans both towers; the hall also acts as an expansive foyer. The funnel shaped skylights spread daylight around the entrance hall, while the parking lots are illuminated by artificial light from the showcases on the walls. The diverse apartments always span an entire floor and are aligned to all four points of the compass. Thus, every apartment offers an unhindered view of the village, the Iake, the French Church and the Margna.