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Calgarian · #**341** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 4:06 AM**

What is the street face of that parkade going to look like? I hope they do something creative with it, parkades are ugly!

shane453 · #**342** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 5:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

What is the street face of that parkade going to look like? I hope they do something creative with it, parkades are ugly!

Yeah it will probably be ugly.. On the other side, they have started putting a metal mesh cladding over the parking garage, so I assume it'll be the same on the street side. Floors 2 and 3 on the west expansion are combined into one extra tall floor, which will be a gym facility. I'm still hoping for retail along the street frontage 1st floor of the parking garage...

photoLith · #**343** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 2:39 PM**

That parking garage has to be one of the most massive parking garages Ive ever seen. Does anyone know if that garage will be just for workers at this tower, or will anyone be able to use it? If so, this should give enough parking for downtown so they dont have to have anymore surface parking lots.

shane453 · #**344** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 4:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by photolitherland

That parking garage has to be one of the most massive parking garages Ive ever seen. Does anyone know if that garage will be just for workers at this tower, or will anyone be able to use it? If so, this should give enough parking for downtown so they dont have to have anymore surface parking lots.

I'm pretty sure it will be a private garage, only for Devon employees. However, since all the Devon employees will be moving to this garage from other parking garages around downtown, more than 2,000 spaces will be freed up in other areas. There isn't really any surface parking in the Central Business District- The Devon site was the closest thing to a large surface parking lot in the business district, and it was actually an underground parking deck.

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**345** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 4:25 PM**

wow, nice progress here

Calgarian · #**346** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by shane453

Yeah it will probably be ugly.. On the other side, they have started putting a metal mesh cladding over the parking garage, so I assume it'll be the same on the street side. Floors 2 and 3 on the west expansion are combined into one extra tall floor, which will be a gym facility. I'm still hoping for retail along the street frontage 1st floor of the parking garage...

WE put some mesh cladding over a parkade here in Calgary and it basically looks like someone put chain link over the parkade. Basically it looks like crap, so hopefully it works out better for you guys. I'll try to find a picture.

Shantytown Architect · #**347** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 6:05 PM**

I read in the paper today that a crane collapsed on site. How's that gonna affect progress?

BG918 · #**348** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Shantytown Architect

I read in the paper today that a crane collapsed on site. How's that gonna affect progress?

It was a small crane (not the tower crane) and shouldn't affect progress. It's a good thing no one was hurt.

jbrown84 · #**349** Posted **Mar 31, 2010, 7:41 PM**

It appears that the ground floor of the garage will have retail space facing the street. Also the second and third floors will be a large fitness center with big windows overlooking.

Deepstar · #**350** Posted **Apr 5, 2010, 9:28 PM**

Yeah, I know what you mean. We had our new tallest reduced in height also, but in the end it's a nice new tall building either way, same goes for this one.

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Originally Posted by Architect2010

Yeah, I'm sure everyone would have preferred the original 925', but 850' is still fantastic! Especially for a city the size of OKC.

Calgarian · #**351** Posted **Apr 5, 2010, 9:47 PM**

Height reductions suck, but at least this one is still going ahead and is going to be your tallest by a good margin.

TonyAnderson · #**352** Posted **Apr 6, 2010, 2:12 AM**

This will already stand out A LOT. 925 might have been overkill.

worthy cook · #**353** Posted **Apr 12, 2010, 4:42 PM**

All four cranes are up and running now. Illl try to get some pics later on this week.

here is a webcam image http://www.okctalk.com/okc-metro-are...ction-cam.html

Calgarian · #**354** Posted **Apr 12, 2010, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by TonyAnderson

This will already stand out A LOT. 925 might have been overkill.

Maybe at first, but after a couple years the skyline would probably look weird without it, kinda like how NYC looks strance with out the WTC towers.

Really looking forward to seeing how this one turns out. I'm kinda jealous of OKC, this building would look great in Calgary.

MNMike · #**355** Posted **Apr 12, 2010, 5:10 PM**

This is exciting, not a lot of big buildings goin up right now. Good for OKC!

shakman · #**356** Posted **Apr 13, 2010, 1:36 PM**

This is going to stand out similar as One Liberty did in Philadelphia.

shane453 · #**357** Posted **Apr 14, 2010, 4:38 PM**

I loved these pictures by Casey Cornett on Flickr:

FOUR tower cranes now!

And garage is open for parking to the 9th floor, almost finished.

shakman · #**358** Posted **Apr 16, 2010, 12:58 PM**

Nice!!! I love the sight of tower cranes. Everytime I see one from a distance, I have to find it. Sometimes I will spend over an hour trying to find it. Similar to this past Tuesday.

Hot Rod · #**359** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:10 AM**

very nice pics!

shane453 · #**360** Posted **Apr 28, 2010, 10:42 PM**

Going up- workers on the floor give an idea of how big it is!

From Lauri101 on flickr