As it plays a transitional role in its urban context, the Bank One Building creates a link between the rich architectural past of Fort Worth and its high tech business environment of today.  Contextually, the Bank One Building is situated between an area of restored 19th Century buildings to its East and Modernist slabs on its West, allowing it to appear visually taller than its historic neighbors and shorter than its modernist neighbors. The building is multi-faceted, housing exceptional office space with the best of electronic communications infrastructure, while at the same time creating a rich pedestrian experience of shop windows, awnings, and patterned brickwork.

Its façades are a blending of simplified ornament and elaborated grid. Ornament relates it to the historic buildings and emphasizes its verticality, but is executed mostly in flat patterns of polychrome brick. The brick patterns, made with four different colors of brick, also produce horizontal accents. The window grid is modulated to make the building more open in the center and more solid at the corners and small adjustments to window planes in the base and slightly projected brick corbels and cast stone cornices create a traditional base, column and capital composition.<>