Just for reference, how tall is the average Oklahoma tornado?
A super tall building in dead center of tornado alley.
Seems like a boondoggle in this day and age.
As far as tornadoes go, I’ve never seen one hit downtown OKC or Tulsa. Not sure if it’s dumb luck or something to do with the thermal aspects of all that concrete.
Oklahoma has some pretty nice Art Deco office buildings.
Oklahoma has some of the best basements in the country so people can live out tornado threats in style.
“My fondest childhood memories are visiting all the tall buildings in Oklahoma.”
- Joe Biden
Commercial real estate is in a downward spiral and they’re building this?
It’s not as if such a building would be a terrorist target or anything.
Whoops! Biologists just discovered a heretofore unknown species of spider, the Oklahoma Jumping Sand Snit. It’s habitat is very small, almost exactly the size and shape of the site on which this building is planned.
Oklahoma City. Well known for frequent tornadoes.
As well as some occasional earthquakes.
So. Great place for the world’s tallest building.
Try to deal with them when the electricity goes out and the elevators stop working - especially if you’re even mildly disabled.
These aren’t built for real people to live and work in. They’re built for developers and architects.
Dumb.
Spend extra money for height in an area where land is cheap
You build high where land is expensive .
I am retired now, but I spent the last 26 years of my working
career based out of a 51 story building in downtown Atlanta.
Mornings, lunch time, and afternoons were a pain in the butt
riding the elevators, stopping on every floor,
or waiting for the next one because it was already full...
The executives were housed on the 51st floor
and had their own express elevator so they did not have to
experience what the regular folks had to put up with.
John Hartford wrote about Tall Buildings a long time ago...and he nailed it.
In Tall Buildings
By John Hartford
And it’s goodbye to the sunshine
Goodbye to the dew
Goodbye to the flowers
And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I must not be late
Going to work in tall buildings
Now when I retire
And my life is my own
I made all the payments
It’s time to go home
And wonder what happened
Betwixt and between
When I went to work in tall buildings
And it’s goodbye to the sunshine
Goodbye to the dew
Goodbye to the flowers
And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I mustn’t be late
Going to work in tall buildings
why on earth would these fools build MORE commercial office space when NYC and SF has YUGE buildings with only 8% occupancy?
They won’t know what kind of catastrophe they are inviting until it happens. Misuse of technology...
OKC was where we all went on the weekends when I was at Shepherd. If I planned it right I could get a park side room at The Hampton Inn and watch the ball game. A good town to be a single guy with walkin’ around money.
Will it be tornado proof?
Bricktown is a small, quaint historic district with a nice retro-designed ballpark. It feels much like a scaled-down version of LoDo and Coors Field, here in Denver. That would be the last place I could ever imagine for a super-tall glass and steel tower.