Devon Plans Downtown Skyscraper

[OUGrad05]

I think something like this would be cool...we don't have a cone building in this part of the country...iconic...multicolored.

BTW, it is the SwissRE building in London.

I'd prefer not to have a 650 foot ***** in downtown OKC. But thats just me...

[Kerry]

I'd prefer not to have a 650 foot ***** in downtown OKC. But thats just me...

Where would you prefer it?

[Superhyper]

I could give you a few ideas, but i think this is a family friendly forum

[TaurusNYC]

Where would you prefer it?

Funniest thing I heard all day. Thanks, Kerry.

[centaurian]

If they build the "Energy Tower" oil derrick. maybe

Devon should pick a design something like a gas pump shaped building.

[architect5311]

Another cool building in the same city:

What exactly makes a building like this "cool"?

[architect5311]

I think something like this would be cool...we don't have a cone building in this part of the country...iconic...multicolored.

BTW, it is the SwissRE building in London.

Yes, the building design inspired by a glass faberge' egg...............Bad Architecture.

[jbrown84]

It is pretty much the most iconic non-historic building in London.

[CuatrodeMayo]

What exactly makes a building like this "cool"?

If you really have any expertise in architecture, you know how loaded a question like that is.

[architect5311]

If you really have any expertise in architecture, you know how loaded a question like that is.

I don't know this building, but it looks like a large scale regurgitation of Richard Roger's and Renzo Piano's Pompidou Center.

Are these expressions of architecture something we want to see in Oklahoma City? A building dropped into the skyline like the alien mothership. The Blue Tower, the SwissRE, the expressed building systems in the other building? Or do we want to see something which responds to the people, the context, Oklahoma City, etc.....?

More loaded questions.

[architect5311]

Now this is cool...............

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...aerialview.jpg

[flintysooner]

Weird and shocking seems to me to be the closest we can come to creative and original. Have to come back in 75 or 100 years and see how the buildings we are building today fare. We still have a kind of short term thinking on buildings I think.

[SOONER8693]

I just returned from a trip to take my oldest daughter and her family home to Wheeling, WV. Going we passed through Tulsa, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Columbus. Returning, Columbus, Cincinnati. Louisville, St. Louis, and Tulsa. I saw some very nice skycrapers and skylines. Cincinnati has a very cool looking skyline set on the river and a building that reminded me a lot of our FNC. I looked it up on Emporis, it is the Carew Tower. Two buildings that really stood out as eye-catching, and "iconic" I guess, were the Chase Tower in Indy and the Aegon Center in Louisville. I am computer stupid, or I would post those in pictures. Maybe someone who is computer savy could do that. The most impressive skyline to me, overall, was Columbus. But, I must say, the Aegon Center in Louisville was very, very impressive and immediately draws ones attention.

[Chicken In The Rough]

Cuatro..., that looks like something out of Blade Runner. Very cool building, but a little too imposing for me.

[Caboose]

What exactly makes a building like this "cool"?

That building looks unfinished, like it is in the middle of construction. I do not like it.

[David Pollard]

Now this is cool...............

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...aerialview.jpg

That is actually quite impressive. Of-course I think anything that would replace that scandal of a parking garage would be an improvement! When I see the beautiful buildings in historical photos that that horrible thing replaced, I get sick to my stomach at the loss.

Having said that, the building you have really ingeniously patched into the skyline is a bit bulky for my taste. It distracts too much from the views of the fnc. If a skyscraper does eventually replace the parking "carbuncle" I hope it is slimmer and placed slightly to the east.

[soonerfever]

Sooner8693 I hope this is the two buildings you were talking about.

Chase Tower Indy


Aegon Louisville

[SOONER8693]

Exactly. Thank you very much.

[Kerry]

architect5311 - If that was supposed to new Devon Tower you have it in the wrong place. It needs to go one block West on the Galleria Garage site. Other than that - it is pretty cool.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Now this is cool...............

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...aerialview.jpg

My suspicions were confirmed...



lame.

[ourulz2000]

please tell me that's not a leaked rendering...

[soonerfever]

please tell me that's not a leaked rendering...

It's in the wrong spot, so I doubt it.

[Richard at Remax]

if you squeezed up the sides and popped it up another 200', then it would good I think. Not in the location of the photo but in the proposed tower location.

[Architect2010]

Actually...that is a great spot for a new tower also. Fills in an empty spot in our skyline and replaces a mediocre buiding that shouldn't exist in our downtown. I also like how a tower would hide the ugly backs of the First National Center buildings...

What is that? Did you make that yourself Architect5311?

[edcrunk]

this is prettty dope... moving skyscraper by those b@st@rds in dubai.

YouTube - The first skyscraper that will be first building in motion