Devon Energy Center

[architect5311]

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........

[architect5311]

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

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

[Pete]

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.

[architect5311]

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

[architect5311]

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.

[LawtonButch]

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.

[metro]

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.

[UnFrSaKn]

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

[MadMonk]

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.

[Kerry]

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.

[holm1231]

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?

[Pete]

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.

[jbrown84]

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

[okc_bel_air]

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.

[MadMonk]

Awesome pic!

[BoulderSooner]

thanks for the great pic!

[iMAX386]

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

[UnFrSaKn]

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.

[redrunner]

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

[okc_bel_air]

Here is one from the last snow we had.

[earlywinegareth]

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.

[architect5311]

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'.....

[dmoor82]

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

[UnFrSaKn]

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

Work for Avis.

[metro]

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

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.