Designed as a corporate headquarters for Great West Life Assurance after they outgrew their Lombard Street premises, the large office building was designed by a local firm Moody and Moore in conjunction with the Toronto firm of Marani and Morris. The vast facade to Osborne Street is broken by the projecting main entrance with a glased stairwell. One wing of the front facade is slighly stepped back to show the stairwell. The building has an interesting pavilion storey on top of tye central block.

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The marble facing to the ground floor was added by means of visually linking this building and its later neighbour built in 1985 as a corporate headquarters. This building is now the home of Canadian operations.