The city hall reconfigured several city blocks, as if to symbolically locate it in the middle of a square, much like a courthouse. Organized along a cross-axial plan revolving around a six-story, light-filled central rotunda, the brick-clad cubic building has four identical facades. Similar to its now-demolished Colley-designed predecessor at the water-front, which signaled the civic endorsement of modernism, the new city hall represents the arrival of Postmodern in Corpus Christi.