The project is an interplay of art and architecture. Its making investigates the overlap of both fields and looks for what each has to offer in developing the final product. By looking at the building as an object of art and studying the way the light records itself onto it and animates it, the architects were able to transcend the conventional building typology to achieve a product that is closer to a painting than a sculpture. By questioning the idea of the frame, the building doubles its envelope and creates a rigid external structure that clearly defines it and allows for a much freer internal core which moves inside its edges, recalling Henri Matisse’s representation of the mythological figure Icarus's plunge from the sky into the sea, with Icarus floating freely against a royal blue nighttime sky, defying the sun and forces of gravity. The choice of a bright white color for the frame helps it contrast with the dark glass of its heart and captures the sunlight movement. By strongly reflecting on one side rather than the other, it fragments the building and allows it to be read as a series of planes that create playful and powerful geometric forms reinforcing the idea of a painting. The sun is not the only contextual framework highlighted by the building, but glimpses of the city are also offered whether through the open splits between the heart and the frame or in its blurred reflection on the building surface. The city becomes part of the building design: the site no longer purely serving as a pedestal for its host becomes a frame within a frame where moving cars, pedestrian flows and planes flying high in the sky are pictured and outlined as part of the building activities. The human scale is forgotten and all references to scale are challenged. The building’s slim form and squarish proportions moves it away from the conventional tall and narrow highrises as well as from the low-rise buildings of the adjacent sites. The bold gesture of its facades transcends the application of local technologies and shall require the reliance on new and innovative approaches for its creation.