The new building is six storeys high, rising in parts to eight storeys and forms a large city block, giving a clear definition to the surrounding streets. It adopts a typology typical to Munich of a block with a large shared garden enclosed at its centre.

Apartments are configured in groups of two and three around a stair and lift, with most planned as through flats with an aspect to the garden and the street. All the flats have large projecting balconies. Entrances are on the street sides, with connections at the ground floor to the garden side. The block also includes a kindergarten with a playground. The façades are made with painted render: Green on the street side, and yellow on the garden side.

The façade along Welfenstrasse follows the shallow curve of the street and is shaped with shallow bays that reflect the organisation of the apartments around regularly spaced stair and lift cores. The street-level entrances, and the façades in green render above, have been carefully designed to give this large building a scale and detail that is appropriate to the proportions of the street. The internal cores lead to shared roof terraces and all apartments have balconies onto the quieter side of the courtyard.

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