OKLAHOMA CITY | Devon Headquarters | 850 FT / 259 M | 54 FLOORS | U/C

[UnFrSaKn]

[UnFrSaKn]

Here's a similar shot from 1996

[bombermwc]

That fog picture is cool!!!!

The glass is up to the crown now. We'll see a fully enclosed structure in a very short time!

[craner]

Originally Posted by UnFrSaKn

Turning out beautifully. Great looking ball park there also.

[worthy cook]

the cam has been moved back down to show the base. looks pretty good

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/w...ructionCam.jpg

[futuresooner]

Originally Posted by UnFrSaKn

this picture is absolutely amazing, you can see all the way out to Lake Hefner.

[dmoor82]

Emporis ranks the Devon Energy Center as the 13th most expensive tower in all of North America and 10th most expensive in America!http://www.emporis.com/statistics/mo...s-northamerica

[whiteford]

the bow in Calgary cost well over a billion. i never believe a thing emporis says. its full of crap most/99.999999% of the time. for much more accurate figures for any type of building or big construction, whether it be cost, materials used and so on, i trust the formers right here at ssp to the fullest. they know much more about these things that emporis could ever hope to hold the information to.
btw this tower gets more awesome each day.

[dmoor82]

^^Also,where is the WTC complex in that chart?This is either an old link or just a wrong one!

[bombermwc]

I would find even 13th hard to believe given the cheaper labor and land costs in Oklahoma. Just because it's tall, doesn't mean it's the most expensive. And it took a 2 level parking garage out, so it's not like there was prime land there either. It's land that had failed to develop countless times over. I'd bet that the land the Rennaisance Hotel was built on a few blocks over was comporable (adjusting for inflation 10 years later) for a much smaller footprint...it was smack in the middle of things and across from the convention center.

[futuresooner]

well its price tag is estimated at around $750 million

[Coldrsx]

The glazing is pure money.

[dmoor82]

Originally Posted by bombermwc

I would find even 13th hard to believe given the cheaper labor and land costs in Oklahoma. Just because it's tall, doesn't mean it's the most expensive. And it took a 2 level parking garage out, so it's not like there was prime land there either. It's land that had failed to develop countless times over. I'd bet that the land the Rennaisance Hotel was built on a few blocks over was comporable (adjusting for inflation 10 years later) for a much smaller footprint...it was smack in the middle of things and across from the convention center.

Land aside,its' probably because everything on this tower is top notch and very expensive!The glass,LED lighting and so on!

[dmoor82]

If Devon wanted to build two towers that were non-LEED certified and had half the amount of glass and no extras,then they could build two towers about 400-500 ft tall for 750million!

[shane453]

Some different angles

[Tumbleweed_Tx]

that picture from NW 30th St caught my attention... My grandparents lived at NW 29th and Ann Arbor, my aunt and uncle lived at 34th and Ann Arbor!

[worthy cook]

I live over in Edgemere Park so the third picture is almost an every week occurance going to eat at Picasso's in the Paseo

[shane453]

Originally Posted by worthy cook

I live over in Edgemere Park so the third picture is almost an every week occurance going to eat at Picasso's in the Paseo

I have been enjoying happening across strange, faraway vantage points of Devon and downtown when I'm jogging or driving around... and speaking of Edgemere Park, you can really clearly see Devon Tower from the bridge over the creek at 34th Street.. Kind of hard to see in this photo, but it's just between two of the trees in the distance:

[KayneMo]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaynesh...n/photostream/

[photoLith]

Dang, OKC looks so bad ass now with this tower. It needs a couple a more of this height and then OKC will be kicking it with the power players.