Anyone know if the area above the "V" on the webcam view will be an open area for viewing or something like that? Perhaps to do with the restaurant?

In the plans those places are called 'lanterns'. My guess is they will be the location of something used for illumination of the crown or as some kind of visual feature. I guess we will know when they get around to putting the glass in to see if it is inside or outside.

Does anyone know what that construction is by the Sandrige building? Or if there is any? I heard a while back that they were building something but never heard anything else about that subject .....

See the Sandridge thread

It seems that very little is going on at the top of the tower.

It seems that very little is going on at the top of the tower.

While it is much slower, things are definitely changing. Below, you can see the gradual changes happening at the top throughout July (sorry, not as cool as the videos that are posted).

July 2
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lchV63vgRCE/Tg-dxAltKZI/AAAAAAAANvY/BKAj2VGqzZw/116_5051.JPG

July 11
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-magQrpKbba4/ThuadFplRLI/AAAAAAAAN0U/2M-XXbTyax0/116_5053.JPG

July 18
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rB-DM2rq3Tg/TiUKa5JBXkI/AAAAAAAAN18/DoyOcE4MeLI/116_5055.JPG

July 24
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-13WNajgcujk/Tix4GfJOxpI/AAAAAAAAN38/qty7s1LF5dQ/116_5072.jpg

Aug 1
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NNEAx5vBnUk/TjdvjXTa78I/AAAAAAAAN4s/Br5_CiChHFM/116_5074.jpg

Now that we are into the crown, there are effectively four level-type stages left to go before the building tops out.

They each will look similar in that they will appear to have a floor/roof but they will be for mechanical and/or just ornamental.

Hopefully they can still complete one a week and top out by the end of this month.

Sorry for my rather poor add-ons to this photo but this is what I'm seeing:
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r170/OkStateBBall78/DevonRendering5-2.jpg
+3 more floors?

On that last picture from shawnw, it looks like there is a tall steel beam that is taller than any floor height would be. It would be more likely that the mechanical levels are one big steel area that is a part of the crowns structure. I bet that steel beam sticking up is the maximum height of the skeleton frame of the building. That beams height just looks about right with respects to how tall the building should be. I took two straight lines with the pictures, which one aligns with the V beams and the other line is aligned to the beams that are on each side of the 3 faces of the building. And where those two lines cross each other, is where the crowns tip is and it is just a millimeter or so taller than that steel beam. Interesting, if that beam is the tip!!

Or that beam is exactly the height of two stories of the mechanical room!! Does anyone think that we will start seeing a lot of these beams shoot up quickly. Steel work is faster than concrete and all the bends of the structure at the crown will be cooler to see being built.

it will be bittersweet though. cranes will go down soon, no more structure rising, but at least we will be moving closer to people moving in and a more active streetlife downtown.

I don't think that picture from OKCis4me is accurate. Look at where the V beams meet the center columns!!! It takes 3 floors for the V beams to meet it, and in the real pictures, it only took 2 floors for them to meet. Meaning under the drawing, the V beam meets the center beam on the ceiling of the 50th floor, where the actual buildings has them meeting on the 49th ceiling

it will be bittersweet though. cranes will go down soon, no more structure rising

This is so true. I think some of us are going to have withdrawals from having tracked this project for so long.

I've noticed that I'm often disappointed when something is completed... That the thrill of imagining and watching it be built is actually more fun than the finished product.

The good news is there are plenty of other projects plus lots more to come. But there is nothing quite like a high-rise and I hope there are more in our immediate future.

On that last picture from shawnw, it looks like there is a tall steel beam that is taller than any floor height would be. It would be more likely that the mechanical levels are one big steel area that is a part of the crowns structure. I bet that steel beam sticking up is the maximum height of the skeleton frame of the building. That beams height just looks about right with respects to how tall the building should be. I took two straight lines with the pictures, which one aligns with the V beams and the other line is aligned to the beams that are on each side of the 3 faces of the building. And where those two lines cross each other, is where the crowns tip is and it is just a millimeter or so taller than that steel beam. Interesting, if that beam is the tip!!

I believe what you are seeing is the concrete boom and not a steel beam. The pictures before the last show it bent over with the sections all folded nicely.

I actually look forward to it being done, having invested an incredible amount in the progress. Even when the crown in finished, they still gotta deconstruct the bucket hoists and add windows all the way down and also the points where the cranes attached.

Also, it will be very, very cool to see what develops in the Garden Wing in terms of restaurants and even retail. And I can't wait to actually be able to go inside the rotunda, go to the top and see the restaurant, see how the addition/renovation turns out with the Colcord, etc.

There are still plenty of things that will be unfolding for at least a year after the building tops out.

And by then, I hope we have at least one other high-rise to be tracking.

does anyone know how tall it will be when it reaches full height?

As requested by Thunder, here are two pictures from the air I took this afternoon. They have pretty poor quality, they were taken with my cellphone camera.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/img2011080200272.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/811/img2011080200271.jpg/

You can click the photo to display the large versions.

Enjoy.

Another point: Almost nothing ever in the history of OKC will take this long to build. Everything else will seem like it pops up overnight.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/oklahomacityskyline7-13-2011sig.jpg

I don't think that picture from OKCis4me is accurate. Look at where the V beams meet the center columns!!! It takes 3 floors for the V beams to meet it, and in the real pictures, it only took 2 floors for them to meet. Meaning under the drawing, the V beam meets the center beam on the ceiling of the 50th floor, where the actual buildings has them meeting on the 49th ceiling

Holm, it's a rendering. It was released by the company. If you look back a few (or several) pages at some high quality still frame shots from some of UnFrSaKn's videos, you'll notice the floor that the very bottom of the V starts in is labeled as the 47th floor, hence the last completed floor is the 50th, not the 49th. Also, that thing that looks like a steel beam is in the very place as the concrete pumper, which they're probably still using to seal the roof.


This is so true. I think some of us are going to have withdrawals from having tracked this project for so long.

It was like this for me after BPS was completed. At least the IPF will be starting soon enough and I can go on with the next big project!

I believe what you are seeing is the concrete boom and not a steel beam. The pictures before the last show it bent over with the sections all folded nicely.

Those pictures were taken a week apart from each other, and that beam is perfectly straight. The boom has joints and is not solid and would be impossible for a boom to be that straight up the air. But I see now that the boom could be leaning away from that view and appearing to be straight. My mistake!!

does anyone know how tall it will be when it reaches full height?
Jeez, it is going to be around 850ft. From what I recall, Devon said the official height would be around 844ft. Sorry, it has been asked over and over.

OKC4me, I am not questioning what level we are on man, I know that the 50th floor is almost complete and the two mechanical floors are to be started very soon. I was just saying that how the beams and columns are coming together in reality is different from that picture. My argument is that drawings V beam is more vertical or more acute then in real life. Your yellow line is correct, in terms of where construction is, I just noticed that the beams were crossing each other a level below then the pre-construction drawings. Understand?

The thing your seeing as a straight steel beam is 100% a concrete boom. The boom is bent over towards the camera which appears to be a beam but it's actually just the way the boom is positioned.

I corrected myself!! Mistake

OKC4me, I am not questioning what level we are on man, I know that the 50th floor is almost complete and the two mechanical floors are to be started very soon. I was just saying that how the beams and columns are coming together in reality is different from that picture. My argument is that drawings V beam is more vertical or more acute then in real life. Your yellow line is correct, in terms of where construction is, I just noticed that the beams were crossing each other a level below then the pre-construction drawings. Understand?

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I look at the angle in which the legs of the V are going and I don't see how there can be 3 or even 4 more levels as Pete was saying. I can only see two more possible levels, but who knows, ya know?

Does anyone know how tall the Devon tower is currently?

Milan, the tower is closing in on 800 feet.

Does anyone have any picks of what the inside of the tower will look like?

And once the tower is completed, are they going to let people visit it?

Another point: Almost nothing ever in the history of OKC will take this long to build. Everything else will seem like it pops up overnight.

Except for the Whole Foods building. LOL

Except for the Whole Foods building. LOL


The good news is there are plenty of other projects plus lots more to come. But there is nothing quite like a high-rise and I hope there are more in our immediate future.


And by then, I hope we have at least one other high-rise to be tracking.

I was thinking more along these lines.

Maybe construction of the Devon Tower has stopped in some places, due to the heat. It seems it would be very hot for workers 700ft in the air, with no air conditioning, and when its 111 degrees outside!

Maybe construction of the Devon Tower has stopped in some places, due to the heat. It seems it would be very hot for workers 700ft in the air, with no air conditioning, and when its 111 degrees outside!

There is probably a good 30 mph wind up there and being so far removed from the street it will be much cooler. Over in the garden wing would be a different story.

8-3-2011

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-1.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-2.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-3.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-4.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-5.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-6.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/August%202011/devontowerprogress8-3-11-7.jpg

Great pictures, Wil. Thanks.

Are these Vs going to connect with each other making a 3 point top with the highest vertice right above the center line of the inditions? If so, they have a lot more height to go. It is also interesting that Vs are not the same on all three sides (look closely at photos 3 and 4 above). In addition to yellow beams, the floor in photo 4 is rounded. That makes me think at least this one V will be outside the building, and probably the other two as well since there is no place to attach the glass to.

From today:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon8311.jpg

The V's on each 3 faces will not meet each other. Before the V beams started, there were 5 columns on each face of the building and the center one split making it the V. The V beam has just now crossed the second and fourth columns and then the V beam is supposed to eventually connect to the two outer columns of each face at the very top.

Wow!!! I do see a difference in at least two of the V sections. But I think this is proving my point from last week, that on the top 2 floors, there will be an opening in the floors so that we can see up to the crown from the 49th level, and on the 50 level we will be able to look over a balcony/atrium to the floor below. My only question is on picture 1, On the 48th ceiling (49th floor) the concrete slab is going all the way out to the V columns. While the other pictures are showing the steel support beams, that will hold the window panels, and the concrete slab does not reach all the way yo the edge. Therefore, I see what you are saying about how the steel support beams will stick out from the edge, because the concrete slab is all the way to the edge. Unless, somehow, the windows will connect to the concrete slab on that 48th level, and then they will add the steel support beams on the above floors.

The V's on each 3 faces will not meet each other. Before the V beams started, there were 5 columns on each face of the building and the center one split making it the V. The V beam has just now crossed the second and fourth columns and then the V beam is supposed to eventually connect to the two outer columns of each face at the very top.

In addition to the V shape, they are also leaning in towards the center of the building because they are following the taper. I don't see the indentions following the taper though. That means the Vs will be able to connect right at the center of the indentions which will create a 3 point crown.

It would end up looking like this except with three sides instead of four:

Two Prudential Plaza in Chicago.

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/chicago27.jpg

Even though it appears they've slowed down a bit on the construction, it's still amazing how fast this thing has gone up. Contrast this to the restaurant going up in Norman (on the lake next to Chili's) that's been under construction for probably 5 or 6 years. These guys on the tower do more in one day than the builders on that restaurant have done over a period of years. Maybe when Devon Tower is finished, a few of the workers can donate a few hours to go down to Norman and finish that eyesore in a single day.

They'll probably be up the the "V" with glass within two weeks. I doubt if this will be completely topped out by the end of the month. Instead of being how it was most of the way up, the glass around the "V" and crown will be a little trickier to install, slowing it down further.

I've got some photos here that I was given the "go ahead" on showing them so here they are and enjoy!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6141/6006493464_2a2d4a1274_b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/6005951963_1a56249520_b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/6006484738_16c3a93362_b.jpg

Is that on the elevator or crane?!

It's a view from Crane 1

It's a view from Crane 1

You are amazing!!!

I'm happy the Crane Operator received permission then passed it onto you for posting on here. Its nice that Devon allowed that, because some of us go out there to help record the project into history.

Picture #1 shows you exactly why the current level (roof) is taking so long (with all the wood forms and rebar that they have to put in to tie the building together at the top). That's why the concrete boom is still up high. Once that's all done, they'll probably move on with the crowns.

First time I've ever gotten vertigo from a photograsph!

So they're basically just finishing the roof first, then the crown.

Even though it appears they've slowed down a bit on the construction, it's still amazing how fast this thing has gone up. Contrast this to the restaurant going up in Norman (on the lake next to Chili's) that's been under construction for probably 5 or 6 years. These guys on the tower do more in one day than the builders on that restaurant have done over a period of years. Maybe when Devon Tower is finished, a few of the workers can donate a few hours to go down to Norman and finish that eyesore in a single day.

That restaurant in Norman is being built by a single person who is taking ZERO loans to build it. As he gets money, he does a little more. That's a very poor example to use.

That restaurant in Norman is being built by a single person who is taking ZERO loans to build it. As he gets money, he does a little more. That's a very poor example to use.

Maybe he should take out a loan, finish the building and move his office supply business there.

Awesome pictures today! Thank you to the persons taking them, the persons posting, and the persons giving permission to use the crane view photo's!!!

William, what kind of camera are you using in those shots today?

I recently was walking around OU's stadium and went to the upper deck. You can clearly see the tower from the westside looking NW. I need to take my camera next time. The eastside upper deck would have an even better view of it.

Still hoping they use the red LED's and light up the tower during/after OU games.

Lets not incorporate college colors into the evening displays of the Devon Tower. Thunder blue?! Now that will work!

Those pictures from the crane are awesome!

Those pictures from the crane are a good example of one of the "Good things that have happened due to OKCTalk"! Where else is anyone in town going to see these great pictures? And all of the rest of the pics that different ones are kind enough to post here. Thanks to all of you but especially the person on that crane!!!

However, they will not meet in the center of the indentions! The indentions will stop basically 2 levels from now, but the 3 sides of the building will continue going up and the V beams are going to meet the straight columns on the very ends of the sides. Just look at some drawings, the V beams will come to the Corner of the indentions, not meet together in the center.

My Devon Tower source told me about the The last crane jump height(1,080'ft) over Two Months ago and low and behold He/She was right,He/She even told me about The Resturant before it was Public and that turned out correct!Hopefully His or Her's "Monster Tower" rumors come true!

My Devon Tower source told me about the The last crane jump height(1,080'ft) over Two Months ago and low and behold He/She was right,He/She even told me about The Resturant before it was Public and that turned out correct!Hopefully His or Her's "Monster Tower" rumors come true!

"Monster Tower", as in, another company building downtown? Boy, I sure hope so!!

However, they will not meet in the center of the indentions! The indentions will stop basically 2 levels from now, but the 3 sides of the building will continue going up and the V beams are going to meet the straight columns on the very ends of the sides. Just look at some drawings, the V beams will come to the Corner of the indentions, not meet together in the center.

Thanks. So the crown will not look like any of the renderings we have seen to date?

If they secretly changed the way the crown will be, is that legal or illegal? Will they be required to report the design change to OKC? There hasn't been any official reports of such change.