Few new cool BOK Center pics

[bugo]

The building looks really cool, with one exception: That ugly BOK logo.  The building looks like something out of the future, but the sign looks like an anachronism from the late 1980s.  They should make the sign a lot smaller, or modify it to make it fit the building.  Right now it looks like a futuristic sports car with a hood ornament from a '74 Gran Torino.

[citizen72]

It does not respect it's environment. Number one rule in building design. A building should respect the environment in which it is to be placed.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

It does not respect it's environment. Number one rule in building design. A building should respect the environment in which it is to be placed.

Nice drive-by; cite a specific example, please.

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

It does not respect it's environment. Number one rule in building design. A building should respect the environment in which it is to be placed.

Like the civic center and its parking garage? That post office building? The new parking garage? The jail perhaps?

I get your point though. I like it when things "match" "fit in" or "respect the environment" as well. But its not as though this is some Brutalist building in the middle of a bunch of cottages.  

Plus there are always exceptions to the rule.  The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (which when they said our arena was to be clad in stainless steel I instantly thought of). http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/visita_virtual/visita_virtual.php?idioma=en  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao   The Eiffel Tower?  etc.  It is true that Iconic buildings more often than not do not "respect their surroundings". Its often just the nature of the beast so to speak. A building (or person for that matter) that seeks to be the center of attention, often is not good at fitting in.  The only way for an  exceptional building to fit in, is to be surrounded by other exceptional buildings. The Picasso over a Louis XIV Console,,, they do not match in historic styles, but match and work together none the less because of their "class", their artistic quality.

Some places are great because they have a lot of structures of a similar style, some are great because they are ecclectic. I would say the area of downtown where the areana is is quite ecclectic. Heck, pretty much our entire downtown is, and its probably too far in that direction to ever go back to a more homogenous style.



Though I would like to see more attention to making sure areas are pedestrian friendly. But even here one has to temper that sentiment with some wisdom and realize that... "If you try to make every street a perfect street, none of them will be." You concentrate the pedestrian friendly elements in some areas, the pedestrian unfriendly stuff in others.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

It does not respect it's environment. Number one rule in building design. A building should respect the environment in which it is to be placed.

I'm not worried about it matching "it's environment" when everything around it is due to be torn down or majorly remodeled.

[azbadpuppy]

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

It does not respect it's environment. Number one rule in building design. A building should respect the environment in which it is to be placed.

And what 'environment' is that, exactly? It is in a downtown area with many different styles juxtaposed. What would you have rather it been, Art Deco? Tulsa has enough boring 'revival' architecture.