^^ Best skyline view I have seen in awhile. This viewpoint may be the new signature view of downtown Okc.

This first angle is my fav,but The second would be The best postcard view for OKC IMO,photos by Thundercitizen! http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/826/dsc0005rb.jpghttp://img844.imageshack.us/img844/3426/dsc0001iq.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5255467319_1d06723a62_b.jpg
from cameron_405

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameron_405/5255467319/

This should go on the Wikipedia page.

I've lived within 5 miles of downtown most of my life. Waiting for food inside a restaurant, I glanced over towards downtown and could make out the skyline over another restaurant sign and trees and I was so proud of the progress. You really can see the impact from just about everywhere. Up until now, the skyline became just another ordinary thing you don't even notice, although it's usually visible. I've always been on the south/southest side so it's the same view from my videos and the one from the river.

At 30 Floors it is pretty exciting to realize that we have only 20 more floors to go. Additionally in 6 more floors we will exceed the floor count history for OKC! The only record this building will still leave to Tulsa will be greatest number of floors with Williams tower topping out at 52 floors. I guess we can leave that to the next tower of significance that will be built in Okc. I dream that it will consist of a two tower solution with one being dedicated to Hotel and Residence tower, and the main tower being some serious class A office w/ a nice corporate anchor tennant and plenty of room for additional corporations and or smaller companies to locate to and make a home in Okc. Exciting times to be had for sure!

My company MD Building Products will be making parts for the atrium. Extruded aluminum and some fabrication of some sort. I do not have a clue what the pieces will do or even where they will be located in the atrium.

Unofficially, the tower is already equal to or higher than the Chase Tower perceived by the thousands of citizens traveling nearby. I can see it on 29th in Del City being so super bright. It is very much like the guiding light from heaven afar.

It does appear taller from the distance than the chase building from either side of town.


Unofficially, the tower is already equal to or higher than the Chase Tower perceived by the thousands of citizens traveling nearby. I can see it on 29th in Del City being so super bright. It is very much like the guiding light from heaven afar.

Just curious, but I wonder if it would be possible to redo/refurbish the exterior of the First National Building? It so dingy looking!

Unofficially, the tower is already equal to or higher than the Chase Tower perceived by the thousands of citizens traveling nearby. I can see it on 29th in Del City being so super bright. It is very much like the guiding light from heaven afar.

That's exactly where I was when I looked. I was getting something to eat.

Here is the Devon Tower flickr Group Pool website sent to me by cameron_405!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1466704@N25/pool/

We have some amazing photographers!

^^Cool Thank's for posting!

At 30 Floors it is pretty exciting to realize that we have only 20 more floors to go. Additionally in 6 more floors we will exceed the floor count history for OKC! The only record this building will still leave to Tulsa will be greatest number of floors with Williams tower topping out at 52 floors. I guess we can leave that to the next tower of significance that will be built in Okc. I dream that it will consist of a two tower solution with one being dedicated to Hotel and Residence tower, and the main tower being some serious class A office w/ a nice corporate anchor tennant and plenty of room for additional corporations and or smaller companies to locate to and make a home in Okc. Exciting
times to be had for sure!

Pretty sure the building on ORU's campus in Tulsa is 70 stories...

Pretty sure the building on ORU's campus in Tulsa is 70 stories...

Tulsa's tallests (http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=300)

No, it's 60.

Pretty sure the building on ORU's campus in Tulsa is 70 stories...

Cityplex Tower - 60 floors, 648 feet in height

Driving away from Crest on Reno, the Devon Tower really do stand out of the skyline!!! Then it appears again across city line into Del City (after all those trees), the Devon Tower!!! I got a nice HDD video camera today and its such a perfect day to go out there, but I'm very sleepy now. Still, I have to learn how to play with this gadget.

Cityplex Tower - 60 floors, 648 feet in height

Ok, well either way the 52 stories @heart was saying dor the tallest is wrong. Thanks for clarifying us though.

Thanks for the correction I forgot about Cityplex

Do some people forget there's a way to search all of human knowledge at the blink of an eye?

I got tricked. I looked online for reviews, it is actually SD. I dunno why it has HDD on it. Panasonic SDR-H85 showing 80 GB (HDD) and was told its High Digital Definition. :-( Its really SD and I wanted to do a nice video on this tower.

Great pics! looks like they are starting the 30th floor. By my calculations the tower is 471' (6x21+23x15) so 2 more floors and it will become the tallest in okc by february 10th! Someone please correct me if I used innaccurate numbers.

Height at 30 Floors........

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTIONSTATUS-1-25-11.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/C-CONSTRUCTIONSTATUS-1-25-11.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/B-CONSTRUCTIONSTATUS-1-25-11.jpg

And here's a shot of the tower from last Friday (1/21/11):

http://i929.photobucket.com/albums/ad131/LordOfDeception/DTower12111.jpg


OKCMacGruber, Is this pic from your office in Chase and is the construction cam deal going to work out?

It wasn't MacGruber that proposed the idea of a webcam in his Chase Tower office, it was another poster.

And we are still working on it and expect it to happen in the near future; that vantage point would be higher than shown above.


Those are awesome sketches architect!! Thanks for sharing them.

Flew in last night, on the drive home imagined the view with the finished tower......WOW! cant wait...

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/ViewfromSW.jpg

Hello - long time lurker and first time poster. I own a webcam and work in the Chase Building on a fairly high floor. I will see about setting up the cam up here for you guys. It may be a bandwidth issue, but at the very least, maybe I can figure out how to send still pictures every hour or somesuch. Anyway, I would post a pic I took today with my iPhone from where the cam would be located, but apparently, I need to be a member longer to do that. Coming soon, I guess!

Sorry ChaseDweller, my bad.....the Chase Cam will be an awesome viewpoint.

HDD=Hard Drive Disk

I think I have that same (or definitely similar) camera and L O V E it. Have fun with your new toy.

Do some people forget there's a way to search all of human knowledge at the blink of an eye?

I was on a mobile device and didn't feel like Googling, but knew there was a tower with more floors than what @heart claimed.

Devon should top Chase around the time I do the February video update.

I got tricked. I looked online for reviews, it is actually SD. I dunno why it has HDD on it. Panasonic SDR-H85 showing 80 GB (HDD) and was told its High Digital Definition. :-( Its really SD and I wanted to do a nice video on this tower.
HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive. Your camera stores its movies on an 80GB hard disk instead of tape (or flash memory). Guess you should have looked at reviews before buying.

That's exactly where I was when I looked. I was getting something to eat.

Pete should sell OKCTalk t-shirts and then you can wear them around town so you know when we bump into each other.

I have been trying to calculate, just like others, the height of the tower at this point by multiplying the number of floors, etc. One thing caught my attention is that we know that the level heights are around 20 and 15 ft. But what about the concrete between the floors and ceiling. it has to be 3-5 ft thick, and is that included in the floor height that is already given?

holm, the thickness of the floor/ceiling is definitely included in the height of each level.


On a completely different topic, I received more details about the lighting for Devon Tower.

I was able to confirm the LED lighting will be only in the three "indentions" and the crown. I was told that they could have easily (from a construction standpoint) added the same to the entire building, but it was very expensive. But originally, Devon was only going to have white lights in the indentions then decided to add color as well, and there will be virtually an unlimited amount of colors and programming effects for the sides and crown of the building.

They will be doing a test of floors 10+ in a couple of weeks and hopefully we'll know the exact dates soon.

And I was also told that the current and future tests are only run on about 50% power and that when they go full-bore, all that lighting will be incredibly bright.

I think it will look better with lighting only in the crown and "indentions".

Since we are in a blizzard I thought I would give you the sunrise from atop the Devon tower.

I was told this is from the top of the 30th floor.

http://www.rhodesdesigns.com/Sunrise_Devon_Tower.jpg

Awesome pic!

thanks for the great pic!

We need a pic like that today with all the snow on the ground!

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/DevonConstructionCam16.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/DevonConstructionCam17.jpg

Looks like she survived. I was probably the only one on here who happened to drive past it on I-40 after a total waste of effort getting to work for a futile hour of trying to move cars out of the garage at Will Rogers. It was definitely a unique view through the blowing snow and the glitter of the interior lights as you pass.

Why were you trying to move cars out of the garage at WRWA?

Here is one from the last snow we had.
http://www.rhodesdesigns.com/LastSnow.jpg

Cityplex in Tulsa mentioned a few posts ago...I remember as a kid hearing about Oral Roberts' "vision" for a 777 foot tower with 77 stories to be constructed at 7777 South Lewis. Didn't quite make it but still an impressive structure. Pretty sure my mom sent him a check back then.

Cityplex in Tulsa mentioned a few posts ago...I remember as a kid hearing about Oral Roberts' "vision" for a 777 foot tower with 77 stories to be constructed at 7777 South Lewis. Didn't quite make it but still an impressive structure. Pretty sure my mom sent him a check back then.

Interesting, I think CityPlex measures 648'.....

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-2.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-2a.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-2b.jpg

^^ Very nice! This really shows how tall Tulsa really is compared to OKC!And of course shows what The Devon Tower will soon pass!

Why were you trying to move cars out of the garage at WRWA?

Work for Avis.

Interesting, I think CityPlex measures 648'.....

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-2.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-2a.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-2b.jpg
Really nice, would it be too much trouble to add the finished Devon to the end of this rendering so we can see current and finished comparison side by side of these.

Really nice, would it be too much trouble to add the finished Devon to the end of this rendering so we can see current and finished comparison side by side of these.Or maybe just a near transparent finished extension to it's current status. The graphics are great...thanks Architect.

Some pre-snow photos via Paul L McCord Jr's Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plmccordj/page3/

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5300/5402457248_4dbfc79fb0_o.jpg

^^ Very nice, thanks for posting! If you right click, "view image", you can zoom in. High resolution pic!

Thanks guys... Those are my photos.

^^Nice pic's!I love that one three posts' above!

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/CONSTRUCTION-x.jpg

That's a huge bi***!

January 25
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p314/Dulahey/IMG_1351.jpg

February 4
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p314/Dulahey/IMG_1380-1.jpg
This morning's shot isn't zoomed because light was low and I didn't have a tripod with me. So it's a little blurry. I really wanted a snow shot though.

that snow shot is awesome

I'd like to get back to that January 25th shot, 70's I mean...

i'd like to get back to that january 25th shot, 70's i mean...

for sure!!!!

Here's another one I took on my way home during the moderate snowfall.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p314/Dulahey/IMG_1384.jpg

Hard to tell from the cam but it looks like they may be fixing to raise crane 2.

Hard to tell from the cam but it looks like they may be fixing to raise crane 2.

Confirmed, it is going up!

Confirmed, it is going up!

KOCO just showed a live shot of downtown at the end of their newscast and it looked as tall or taller than Crane 1 from the angle they showed.