This thirty-story residential building in Bangkok responds to its rich context in a variety of ways. In scale, it is sympathetic to both the city skyline and street life. It provides welcome climate control strategies, and it incorporates elements of traditional Thai architecture that marry it to this regional context.

Thailand's traditional architecture and its tropical river-delta climate inspired the building's fabric like texture. Many of the region's buildings have a rich basket weave of trellises and screens, and this building captures that quality, not in a literal way, but through the use of trellises and interlocking rhythms of balconies and roof terraces. The shading devices help cool the building and filter intense sunlight. The windows are set deeply into the building's frame, protecting them from sun and rain and allowing for cross-ventilation. The building's stepped profile permits double-height spaces at the exterior of some of the apartment's living spaces, encouraging airflow and ventilation, and helps to mitigate direct heat gain. The building's concrete-frame structure, with concrete panel infill and white tile cladding, also helps to deflect the sun's heat and protect the interior spaces.

For Frank Williams, The Terrace represents an approach to global design that does not replicate traditional architecture, but interprets it in a Modern vein that will allow the new building to respond to and embrace its environment.