Devon Energy Center

[Thunder]

The blue lights are the construction lights. The white lights are the standard 48" fluorescent lights. I saw them up close when I took the night pictures.

Are these windows capable of turning on/off tints? Just wondering if Devon invested in privacy, because people can spy through the windows so clearly at night. It would look strange if these windows can't be technologically adjusted with random curtains/blinds here and there. Heh, we'll know the reason why the curtains/blinds are closed on a specific window one night. :-)

[shawnw]

Thanks for the clarification Thunder. I've been up close to the building but didn't look closely enough at the lighting. For whatever reason my mind just went to "different glass" when I saw it.

I'm thinking they're going to need blinds just to keep the sun/heat in check. I live in a tower with floor-to-ceiling windows and it's just brutal without blinds. If I forget to close the blinds in the morning before leaving by the time I get home it's 90 degrees even though the AC is cranking away (and probably has been most of the day). I know the tech exists for what you suggest (think it's being used for the new Boeing 787 windows), but surely that would be cost prohibitive for a whole building? Guess we'll find out soon enough.

[dankrutka]

Seeing that picture I still think it is just perception. At night the different lights make the windows look different. During the day reflections of different angles make the windows look different. I think the windows that have been used on the tower (not the rotunda - although the same issue was brought up regarding it's windows) are all the same.

[shawnw]

Seeing that picture I still think it is just perception. At night the different lights make the windows look different. During the day reflections of different angles make the windows look different. I think the windows that have been used on the tower (not the rotunda - although the same issue was brought up regarding it's windows) are all the same.

I think I'm convinced that the glass is the same now, but I like Thunder's explanation of different lights more than the perception explanation.

[Pete]

Regarding the glass, it's the same throughout the tower. The glass on the rotunda is more clear but not as clear as shown in the renderings. On the garden wing, they mix the two types.

One of the last things to be finished on any floor is the lighting. They have teams of lighting specialists that usually wait until all the walls are up and furniture in place and then go through the entire space specifying fixtures. So, I would imagine the floors with the white lights (as opposed to the blue construction variety) are almost completely finished.

On the exterior of the tower there will be tons of LED lights in the three indentions and in the crown. There also may be some in the rotunda.

[soonerwilliam]

The cam is stuck!

[Just the facts]

Be careful what you wish for, can you imagine trying to sleep with all those lights just outside your window? I like all the types of lights there are so far in OKC, but too much light pollution will kill downtown residential.

We have a long way to go before we have to worry about that. People sleep in Las Vegas, Hong Kong, NYC, and South Beach every night.

[Pete]

I would imagine being able to see a spectacular downtown light show would be a big selling point for any nearby living unit. It certainly would be for me.

[Thundercitizen]

I would imagine being able to see a spectacular downtown light show would be a big selling point for any nearby living unit. It certainly would be for me.

Especially if others joined in with their own quality-compliant efforts.

[Rover]

Lights, motion, etc., brings life to an otherwise sleepy area after dark if done tastefully. We don't want to look like a carnival, but I think that the lighting from the river through downtown will be lots of fun.

[Dulahey]

The color difference is indeed because of the lights AND the interior. Light reflecting off nothing but gray concrete is different than light reflecting off drywall.

The 8th? floor has been the test-floor where companies can try out all their interior items before they start getting installed all throughout the tower. As a result, this floor has been finished for quite some time now. It's had this "whiter" color look to it for months now.

[bluedogok]

The blue lights are the construction lights. The white lights are the standard 48" fluorescent lights. I saw them up close when I took the night pictures.

Are these windows capable of turning on/off tints? Just wondering if Devon invested in privacy, because people can spy through the windows so clearly at night. It would look strange if these windows can't be technologically adjusted with random curtains/blinds here and there. Heh, we'll know the reason why the curtains/blinds are closed on a specific window one night. :-)

I doubt that it is electrochromic glazing, it is still very expensive and most uses are for interior glazing. Most buildings have blinds and occupancy sensors to turn lights off when people aren't around or not moving enough to trigger them. At night most lights would be off except on floors with multiple shifts.

Liquid Crystal Glass

[mrktguy29]

I did a little illustration to clear up on the lighting debate. See the read arrow in the photo, these are the construction lights that we have grown used to during the construction. The brighter floors noted with the red bracket shows that the lights go across the span of the building not in just the one spot per floor. I have seen it up close and it looks as if they are vanity lights across the length of the floor horizontally.

Here is a cool shot I got today while downtown, never really took the time to realize the composition this shot holds with Leadership Square, Oklahoma Tower, Devon and reflection of others etc.

and for giggles, what do you think about this as a night time view?

[OKCisOK4me]

Ahhhhhhh, you have Adobe Photoshop 9 too..?

[Thundercitizen]

....aaaand page 300.

[OKCisOK4me]

Awesome! I was the first!!!

[UnFrSaKn]

Time lapse coming later today, with regular video footage and stills...

Just noticed in one shot, at the top floor there are porta-potties. We can safely say they are the highest spots to do your business in the region.

[SSEiYah]

Here is a shot I took today.

[mrktguy29]

Nice Shot!

[mrktguy29]

Cs3

[mrktguy29]

Photoshop CS3

[Snowman]

Ahhhhhhh, you have Adobe Photoshop 9 too..?

They change version numbers enough they are on 12 (aka CS5) at this point and 13 probably releasing next year if you go by past release schedule, though it seems like it takes at least two version changes to be worth thinking about upgrading. But for a program almost 25 years old I guess their is only so much percentage change that could be expected each release.

[plmccordj]

I noticed this morning that I could see the top of the Devon over the hill at the Sonic on Choctaw Road at I-40. Not just the crane either.

[UnFrSaKn]

Ok, finally got this done...

August 2011



August 31 2011

[USG'60]

What is that with the wood framing in the later shots? NE 3rd and what?