From Nanjing Road and Huaihai Road to Xujiahui, the Metro Line 1 coincidently connects the three busiest commercial circles in Shanghai, and on the crossroad between Huashan Road and Hongqiao Road located in Xujiahui commercial center, there stands a landmark building, the Twin Office Towers of Grand Gateway, which is the first Twin-Tower Commercial Building in Shanghai.

The office building rises up to the height of 230 meters with a total of 50 floors. Each of the two towers of Grand Gateway takes the same tetragonal prism shape with circular corners, where the exterior wall of the entire building applies with silvery white glass curtain wall, conspicuously reflecting the lofty quality of a luxury business building. The Grand Gateway is designed by Callison, which ranks one of the top ten architectural design firms in the world. The building gives a comfortable and grand feeling in its appearance, which harmoniously integrates the soul of western and eastern culture, and with its modern function, its also accommodates the aesthetic sense over times . The Twin-Tower of Grand Gateway has become the status engraved with the features stand in the Xujiahui District.

Xuhui District gathers a cluster of universities and colleges including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, East China University of Science & Technology, etc. as well as over a hundred scientific research institutes and academies such as Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai Branch, etc., which embrace this district as a highly concentrated talent resources. The transportation system of metro, light rail, viaducts, inner ring routes, city arterial roads, etc. makes Xuhui District one of the areas in Shanghai where there is the most complete transportation network. A five-minutes drive will take you to Yan'an Road or the Inner Ring Route Viaduct and 20-minutes drive to Hongqiao Airport and just 40-minutes drive to Pudong International Air Port. The strong regional extending and expanding ability forms the multitudinous effect of worldwide enterprises in this area, which makes this place favored by a lot of domestic and foreign large-scale companies. Currently some multinational companies including ABN AMRO, Adidas, Yum! Restaurants China, Microsoft China, Exxon Mobil Corporation, , etc. as well as many of the headquarters of the Yangtze River Delta enterprises have strived to settle in Xujiahui. And the rising of the Twin-Tower of Grand Gateway provides a 64,000-square-meter first-class office area of international standards catering for the urgent need of Xujiahui Commercial Circle, where high-end office buildings are in extreme shortage.