Devon Energy Center

[DelCamino]

Pics from Sept. 23, 2010 - looking east into construction site.

[therondo]

Awesome pics! Thanks DelCamino!!

[kinggober]

Thanks Del! It's also amazing that you took these in the future on 9/25

[okcmomentum]

Had an interesting conversation today that shed light on some details that I had only heard as rumor before. The source was very credible as they are doing work on the site. Floors 49 and 50 will indeed be some type of a private restaurant. Devon apparently had been in conversation with the Petroleum Club but it sounded like things went south and it now will most likely be a private Devon restaurant with banquet rooms, etc. Similar to the Petroleum Club now. The auditorium will have a 27 foot screen on the inside and a 50 foot screen on the outside. All the office floors in the tower will have "quiet" rooms complete with plush lounge chairs and dimming lights. Security will be insane. Each office on the perimeter of the office floors will have badge access. Buttloads of cameras of course. All the floors will have a raised floor. I think that was about all the information I was able to pull out of them.

[DelCamino]

Thanks Del! It's also amazing that you took these in the future on 9/25

heh...yeah, you caught me before my edit. That's what happens when you look at an old fashioned paper desk calendar that's turned to the wrong month.

[Platemaker]

Today:
4th floor windows started.

My sexy mug...

[okclee]

This building is already dominating our skyline and it is only a third of the way in terms of height!

I think I am just now getting a better perspective on how truly massive this tower will be in our downtown, and I drive by it daily.

[OKCisOK4me]

This building is already dominating our skyline and it is only a third of the way in terms of height!

I think I am just now getting a better perspective on how truly massive this tower will be in our downtown, and I drive by it daily.

Wholeheartedly agree with you. When you think of the small space it takes up (that which used to be the parking lot) it seems really small, but when you get that mass rising up into the sky, it really shows how huge it is. From certain high point areas that I like to view it from northwest of downtown, I'd say that it looks to be wider than the Chase/Cotter Tower!

[therondo]

This place is going to transform our skyline in such a way that alot of us who were born and raised here from my generation (I was born in 85) can't understand unless they are avid travelers (unlike myself) who have witnessed such transformations in other cities! My excitement is unbearable for I have never experienced such a change in my lifetime other than the mental gratification of suburban sprawl! (I was raided in Luther so seeing a Walgreen's pop up among newly built subdivisions was amazing to me!)

[kinggober]

Pete, could you give us an update on the webcam? Thanks!

[dmoor82]

This building is already dominating our skyline and it is only a third of the way in terms of height!

I think I am just now getting a better perspective on how truly massive this tower will be in our downtown, and I drive by it daily.

Not even a 1/3rd yet!not even a Quarter way up in height but close!

[OKC@heart]

I sent Pete a Private message asking for more information and an update as to when we might expect the camera to come back up. I will let you know if I hear anything...

[clz46]

just a small update from the Skyline cam. All three of the cores are up it appears with 2/3's of the forms done. Still the tower crane has not lifted. The camera is covered with rain so nothing can be seen now but the bleary lit up building. The building is really beautiful at night. Kinda surreal with it all white against the single lights from cars, street lights, stop lights changing colors etc. in the background. The top 3 completed floors are dark but the tower plus the building between the tower and parking garage (white van) are all ablaze.

[Thunder]

Someone need to investigate the white van and try to get it out of there. It is really creepy.

[Dustin]

I am having withdraws...

[HOT ROD]

Not even a 1/3rd yet!not even a Quarter way up in height but close!

I was going to say that too, dmoor. The tower isn't even 1/4 of the way up yet, but already making an impact. Imagine if the cladding facade was already at the 10th floor, it would be among the prominent buildings in town already. ...

Very very much appreciate the still pics, thanks much guys!!!

[MadMonk]

Someone need to investigate the white van and try to get it out of there. It is really creepy.

It's already been established that the white van is owned and used by employees of the Journal Record.

[okcpulse]

I am having withdraws...

I might need to check myself in very soon.

[earlywinegareth]

Imagine the wow factor for people driving into OKC who know nothing about this.

[sethsrott]

They are now hanging more glass on the 3rd floor.and it looks like they have three more floor plates to finish on the 14th floor.

[OKCisOK4me]

I was going to say that too, dmoor. The tower isn't even 1/4 of the way up yet, but already making an impact. Imagine if the cladding facade was already at the 10th floor, it would be among the prominent buildings in town already. ...

Very very much appreciate the still pics, thanks much guys!!!

Almost all the forms are in place for the 13th floor. The project is over a quarter way there since 12.5 x 4 is 50 (Yay!!)

[OKC@heart]

They are now hanging more glass on the 3rd floor.and it looks like they have three more floor plates to finish on the 14th floor.

Just to clear this up hopefully once and for all...unless the contractors don't know what the floors levels are, as indicated in the attached photo provided by Doug Loudenback (Thankyou very much by the way!) if you click on it and then click again to get the largest view you can see the floor numbers on the Left side of the Construction elevator. The First floor is 1 then the little mezzanine floor that you see is actually the second floor of the podium building and is designated as the second floor. Then the first numbered floor indicated in the photo is Floor #3 and then is goes up in numeric order as we would expect it to. So they are finishing the forms for floor #13, and are adding glass to the 5th floor currently. If I understood you correctly.



http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=23181

[OKCisOK4me]

Viewing the live cam via the Oklahoman, I see that big rig crane that's down in the basement level of the Rotunda and it reminds me of a book my mom read to me when I was a child called, "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel". I'm sure they'll get that beast out of there somehow, but it'd be cool if they left it and outfitted it with a stove to heat the underground VIP parking garage, lol...

[jn1780]

Viewing the live cam via the Oklahoman, I see that big rig crane that's down in the basement level of the Rotunda and it reminds me of a book my mom read to me when I was a child called, "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel". I'm sure they'll get that beast out of there somehow, but it'd be cool if they left it and outfitted it with a stove to heat the underground VIP parking garage, lol...

They will use that VIP parking/loading dock ramp and drive the crane out of there.

[OKCisOK4me]

They will use that VIP parking/loading dock ramp and drive the crane out of there.

Yeah, I was well aware of that, but just use your imagination for a moment and be a kid (hence the lol at the end of my paragraph).