60 floor concepts on new Devon tower site.

[BDP]

if you can put up with having to walk 30 minutes to your car, they're a fun place to have an office.

Yeah, right. If you walk thirty minutes in downtown Oklahoma City, you'll be in mesta park.

[Thunder]

First the Murrah bombing, then the Twin Towers saga, and now #4 could be haunting to people that drives by. I wonder who would actually feel safe to be in a building of #4.

If a tornado would just take a direct hit downtown, take away the old skyscapers, then the area will become more fancier with modern skyscapers and a giant oil derrick.

[jon]

Hrmm... Definitely a student project and not real drafts for the Devon tower. It's my understanding that the existing 5-story parking garages on Sheridan & Hudson will remain. The Devon building's footprint will sit over the existing street level parking. Also, Devon said that they wanted approx 1 million square feet of space, which would put the building at around 40 stories tall based on the footprint area.

Impressive models, though.

[sroberts24]

i really like how they all have more than one tower, i think it adds a lot of character to the skyline and and u get 2 buildings in one, its a beautiful thing and i hope they have something like that in mind, or maybe proposed for the future

[CuatrodeMayo]

OKC's existing skyline has a very dated look, that to me, almost exudes "Brady Bunch" which would be hard to work with. I think most architects would probably shy away from designing a 60-story tower in OKC. The tallest building in OKC is 500 feet exactly, 60 stories would put a tower at 900 or more, since the average floor height in skyscrapers these days is around 16 feet or so.

Expect Devon to be more around 700, which will take a lot of the edge off, but would still probably end up being exceedingly imposing on the rest of the skyline until we get used to it. You know, for so long, that has been our skyline, just like that, unchanged for decades. It's going to look funny at first to see some changes, and we will see a lot more than Devon announced in the next 5 years.



I know this dude. Goes to show what 5 years or so in the architecture business can do to one. Eeek!

This dude looks pretty good compared to some of my former architecture classemates...

[LIL_WAYNE_4_PREZIDENT08]

This dude looks pretty good compared to some of my former architecture classemates...

No homo???

[metro]

Yeah, right. If you walk thirty minutes in downtown Oklahoma City, you'll be in mesta park.

Actually in 30 minutes from downtown, you could easily walk to NW 23rd.

[CuatrodeMayo]

No homo???

What?

Not gay? Not Homo Sapien? Not homogenized milk?

[centaurian]

I m still in favor of the pyramid concept.

[mmonroe]

You know, when I travel to Seattle or San Francisco or Chicago I always see such great, modern looking buildings. I would love to see us really go for it for once and do something like this. And not some dumbed/watered down version of what should have been, but really go for it. I hope we don't end up with another boring 1970s-esque building.

Go ART DECO!!

[downtown20]

These are quite clearly student projects only and not possible designs for the new Devon Tower. Most of them are far too elaborate and over-sized complexes to provide the space Devon expressed it will need. I cannot wait to see the design chosen. Hopefully Devon will look to the far east for inspiration as most skylines in North America are starting to look archaic in comparison. I've heard many people mention favorite towers in Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.... I can only pray they shoot for better architecture than those cities have... those were impressive skylines 10 to 20 years ago, but architecture around the world has progressed dramatically. Look at the skylines of Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong... and although it's not the far east... Dubai. They should take this opportunity to build a tower people will come from around the world to see. Noone goes to Atlanta or Dallas to see architecture, we shouldn't go there for inspiration.

[UnFrSaKn]

Here's some from China...

Diagrams - SkyscraperPage.com

[Platemaker]

These are quite clearly student projects only and not possible designs for the new Devon Tower.

I dunno why everyone has been debating this... when I posted those pics I pointed out that it a student project and had nothing to do with Devon except for the location.

[Spartan]

This dude looks pretty good compared to some of my former architecture classemates...

Yeah he was always alright looking. If All-American is all you wanna look at, I recommend people not enroll to study architecture. Architecture students are a class all their own when it comes to style... A little over 5 years later this guy's nickname is "Pritch" (his last name is Pritchard).

I like his tower though. WOULD look good in Houston maybe.

[metro]

These are quite clearly student projects only and not possible designs for the new Devon Tower. Most of them are far too elaborate and over-sized complexes to provide the space Devon expressed it will need. I cannot wait to see the design chosen. Hopefully Devon will look to the far east for inspiration as most skylines in North America are starting to look archaic in comparison. I've heard many people mention favorite towers in Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.... I can only pray they shoot for better architecture than those cities have... those were impressive skylines 10 to 20 years ago, but architecture around the world has progressed dramatically. Look at the skylines of Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong... and although it's not the far east... Dubai. They should take this opportunity to build a tower people will come from around the world to see. Noone goes to Atlanta or Dallas to see architecture, we shouldn't go there for inspiration.

We've already hashed this issue out, discussed it, and beat it to death in other threads. Search is your friend. Most of us are well aware that the Middle East and Far East have far more modern architecture. I personally love it, however most of this board prefers something iconic, yet more traditional to blend in with our current skyline, unless we get some unforeseable rush of additional skyscrapers and they all take a modern twist.

[mmonroe]

I don't think any of the buildings match downtown, why not something different.

[JWil]

It's going to look funny at first to see some changes, and we will see a lot more than Devon announced in the next 5 years.

I'd love to hear some speculation as far as that is concerned. Is there a feeling out there that more new scrapers are on the way?

[metro]

I'd love to hear some speculation as far as that is concerned. Is there a feeling out there that more new scrapers are on the way?

JWil, reading most posts from a lot of users and myself, it's a good possibility more could be on the way. Paycom recently put their Memorial Rd. new HQ on hold (hopefully they could be convinced that far far west Memorial Rd. is not sustainable and that downtown would be a better fit). Also American Fidelity has already stated they want to be downtown and they have a decent size workforce. There are a few other companies considering it also. I imagine they are more followers than leaders and want to see Devon get down there, see if the NBA comes and possibly Core To Shore start. Once they see all the going-ons downtown will offer in the near future, I imagine many more companies will finally realize downtown is where it's at for quality of life options for employees.

[CuatrodeMayo]

We've already hashed this issue out, discussed it, and beat it to death in other threads. Search is your friend.

Not sure that was necessary. downtown20 may be new, but he/she has contributed good commentary to the forum so far. Take it easy.

[sroberts24]

When it comes to other company's following Devon's example and building downtown i don't think its happening, at least not in the next few years.

We had a member of the OKC Chamber of Commerce come to my P.R. class at U.C.O. yesterday and i asked him if we would we see more buildings in the near future with Devon building the new tallest, and he said no b/c there will be so much open space once Devon moves out of all the other buildings.


I really hope we can get the company's to move downtown instead of building some new place out by memorial for example, if we can get all the office space filled and that what Devon is going to leave vacant than i think there mite be possibilities of seeing some new highrises, but not likely

[Architect2010]

I believe Devon has already commented on all that empty space they are leaving. I think I remember them saying that they want to make sure it fills up quickly with quality tenants. You know someone out there knows about this and they are eyeing all that space already.

And I really don't think it would take that long to fill considering that its almost all class A right?

[OKCMallen]

This dude looks pretty good compared to some of my former architecture classemates...

I know him too! He's my age- I don't know how long it takes to grad with an arch degree, but he started in 1998 and was a dedicated, intellgient guy. Maybe he teaches now or soemthing.

[OKCMallen]

When it comes to other company's following Devon's example and building downtown i don't think its happening, at least not in the next few years.

We had a member of the OKC Chamber of Commerce come to my P.R. class at U.C.O. yesterday and i asked him if we would we see more buildings in the near future with Devon building the new tallest, and he said no b/c there will be so much open space once Devon moves out of all the other buildings.


I really hope we can get the company's to move downtown instead of building some new place out by memorial for example, if we can get all the office space filled and that what Devon is going to leave vacant than i think there mite be possibilities of seeing some new highrises, but not likely

We need to renovate and fill the First National, first. Just because it's a highrise downtown doesn't mean it's not a form of "sprawl" to build new when it's not needed.

[BDP]

Actually in 30 minutes from downtown, you could easily walk to NW 23rd.

You would think, but I'm starting to get the feeling that people in OKC just don't move very fast on their own feet.

[Kerry]

We need to renovate and fill the First National, first. Just because it's a highrise downtown doesn't mean it's not a form of "sprawl" to build new when it's not needed.

Urban core sprawl? That would be a hard sale.