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Oklahoma City - Devon Tower
1012:
Does anyone have any thoughts about the new skyscraper being built in Oklahoma City? Love it, hate it...? I didn't see anything at this site about it, so I thought I'd start this new thread.
http://okc.about.com/od/attractionsandevents/a/okcdevontower.htm
327:
Kinda basic, inoffensive. OKC deserves a signature building at this point. This one will do. I prefer Key Tower and Queen City Square.
MayDay:
It's another corporate tower by Pickard Chilton (architects of Atlanta's Symphony Place, Chicago's 300 North LaSalle and Nashville's Pinnacle); they do a good job at producing pleasantly designed (aka non-envelope pushing but tasteful) office towers. One of their founders was a senior associate with Cesar Pelli, and like Pelli's earlier work, they stick to relatively simple massing with "high gloss" facades like you see here:
westerninterloper:
Tulsa has Oral Roberts Univ, and now OKC gets its own Crystal Cathedral.
C-Dawg:
I like it, though it seems way too big for Oklahoma City. Their current height leader isn't much bigger than Toledo's. I'm shocked at these numbers:
908 ft., 50 floors, 1.8 million square feet
There must be some serious dough in that city to build something this gigantic. Square footage is actually more than Key Tower, and it's about the same height. I think this would be better suited for a city like Cleveland (surface lot on Public Square) or Cincinnati. I can't believe this is being put up in OKC. It's going to be nearly twice the size of anything else in the city!
And really think about it, 1.8 million square feet. That might be close to the size of Downtown Akron. I hope OKC has high occupancy rates so they can absorb this much new space. I have no idea what the surface lot situation is in Downtown Oklahoma City, but I suspect this office space would be better dispersed between a couple smaller towers.
My general attitude is density before height. I'm not as impressed with skylines as I used to be. They give a city flash, but not substance. While this will certainly make a statement for Oklahoma City, is that all it really is? Sort of a "Don't sh!t on Oklahoma, we've got a big building."
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