Dar405301, can you see the link at all? I will post it again...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/5009070899_e2529df3fd_b.jpg

That is an awesome pic! I hope you marked that spot with a stone or something so you can go there and take regular pics and then do an slide show ;)

The cam is down! HELP!!!

We need to find someone who works either higher in the Oklahoma Tower or in the Chase/Cotter Tower so that we can have a better POV on the construction. From the current location, we will soon have no point of reference once the cam is tilted upward...

I was using the second thread "Devon Tower Construction Cam" and there was always a "still" shot of the building, although it was updated daily. It was on Page 1 of that thread. I noticed that it is now gone. How do I get access to the regular cam that you guys are all seeing? Thanks!

^^^That is the cam that everyone is referring to. For those that are subscribed to the Daily Jokelahoman (sorry Steve), I mean Oklahoman you can view a live web cam that's placed on top of the Oklahoma Tower. The link is just down on that page 1 and if you check a few posts back, Pete said that they were working on it (he's not in state so that means that he's probably trying to get in communication with the person who normally tends to the still cam to see what's up with it).

Ok cool - thanks for the info! I saw the posts about the cam, but I didn't know if what I had been looking at was the same one. I'll check the link. Thanks OKCisOK4me!

Sorry, at first I didn't know what you were talking about when you said "link". I meant the link that is used to post the still cam image into the thread is broken. If you have the Oklahoman, just check out this link:

http://www.newsok.com/okcskyline

Ok...thanks. I don't subscribe...so I guess the above link won't work for me. I was speaking of the "Devon Tower Construction Cam", which is right under this thread. I would always just go to Page 1 and it was the very first thing I would be. I didn't know if the link that everyone is saying is broken was the same one that I usually look at. Thanks!

I would "see"* sorry. ;)

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/webcam/DevonConstructionCam.jpg

Pete will have to fix it soon.

We know the cam is down and are working on it.

Hi Pete thanks for all you do to keep the cam up and this site in general! Just a quick question, Is there any word on how long it might be before the cam comes back up? I am needing my daily fix!!! Again thanks for your efforts on this.

I know it doesn't help much without seeing what is going on but just a little written update from the live cam. The forms have been placed on the first 1/3 and that core has popped up. The crystal bridge will soon be out of view. The pumper on top is pumping and there are several concrete trucks lined up. I am hoping the OKCtalk cam is being moved instead of just down but who knows. The picture is much better even though it's not live.

Thanks clz46 a description is far better than the alternative which is nothing!!! So the Forms that they placed were the ones that will support the 13th floor? If so that is awesome! Have they raised the Tower #2 yet? I figured you would have mentioned that if they had, so I assume that they have yet to complete that. So is the live view better now that the tower is getting taller? I remember that it was pretty grainy and distant when they were first setting it up before the blacked it out to all non-subscribing viewers.

No, they have not raised the #2 tower crane yet. The live cam's resolution is not very good so it is hard to tell much more than obvious changes. I did happened to see a panning in and the camera actually moving all around the site at 2:45 pm for about 5 minutes. I have not seen that before so I don't know if that happens every day or if there is a schedule? Didn't Steve say something about that once? The windows from the Colcord side appear to be from what will be the ground floor up to ? hard to tell. You could see many people working all over the site. Since the camera moved fairly quickly, it was hard to tell on what exactly. The Skyline camera has a clearer setting but it is too small to see much while the larger picture resolution is as I described earlier. Also, all the columns seem to be in place for the other 3rd's but no forms... that I can see.

Thanks clz46 a description is far better than the alternative which is nothing!!! So the Forms that they placed were the ones that will support the 13th floor? If so that is awesome! Have they raised the Tower #2 yet? I figured you would have mentioned that if they had, so I assume that they have yet to complete that. So is the live view better now that the tower is getting taller? I remember that it was pretty grainy and distant when they were first setting it up before the blacked it out to all non-subscribing viewers.

It appears in looking at the OKC Skyline cam tonight that about a third of the flooring for the 13th floor is in place. The crane on the west side of the tower has not been raised as yet.

Glass is going up on floor 5

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5005351577_73b56fea86_b.jpg
I like it!!! Surface looks so perfect! Can't wait to see completed tower! Kinggober, thanks for the pictures!

The glass makes the building look so fragile. :-O

The glass makes the building look so fragile. :-O

Yes, and is it rust-proof???

As I've mentioned before, the subscriber wall on the live cam involves considerations outside of any circulation efforts by The Oklahoman. That said, in the absence of any images here at OKC Talk, I'd be glad to do snapshots and post them at OKC Central for all to see (I'll look the other way if someone posts them here as well)

Thanks, Steve for being willing to post some stills to keep those of us without in the know. That was downright thoughtful, and appreciated.

Pics from Sept. 23, 2010 - looking east into construction site.

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww242/luckynedpepper/12-Sept252010-a.jpg

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww242/luckynedpepper/12-Sept252010-b.jpg

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww242/luckynedpepper/12-Sept252010-d.jpg

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww242/luckynedpepper/12-Sept252010-e.jpg

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww242/luckynedpepper/12-Sept252010-f.jpg

Awesome pics! Thanks DelCamino!!

Thanks Del! It's also amazing that you took these in the future on 9/25

Had an interesting conversation today that shed light on some details that I had only heard as rumor before. The source was very credible as they are doing work on the site. Floors 49 and 50 will indeed be some type of a private restaurant. Devon apparently had been in conversation with the Petroleum Club but it sounded like things went south and it now will most likely be a private Devon restaurant with banquet rooms, etc. Similar to the Petroleum Club now. The auditorium will have a 27 foot screen on the inside and a 50 foot screen on the outside. All the office floors in the tower will have "quiet" rooms complete with plush lounge chairs and dimming lights. Security will be insane. Each office on the perimeter of the office floors will have badge access. Buttloads of cameras of course. All the floors will have a raised floor. I think that was about all the information I was able to pull out of them. ;)

Thanks Del! It's also amazing that you took these in the future on 9/25

heh...yeah, you caught me before my edit. That's what happens when you look at an old fashioned paper desk calendar that's turned to the wrong month.

Today:
4th floor windows started.
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll14/Platemaker_photos/Devon%20Tower/Photo0836.jpg
My sexy mug... :tiphat:
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll14/Platemaker_photos/Devon%20Tower/Photo0837.jpg

This building is already dominating our skyline and it is only a third of the way in terms of height!

I think I am just now getting a better perspective on how truly massive this tower will be in our downtown, and I drive by it daily.

This building is already dominating our skyline and it is only a third of the way in terms of height!

I think I am just now getting a better perspective on how truly massive this tower will be in our downtown, and I drive by it daily.

Wholeheartedly agree with you. When you think of the small space it takes up (that which used to be the parking lot) it seems really small, but when you get that mass rising up into the sky, it really shows how huge it is. From certain high point areas that I like to view it from northwest of downtown, I'd say that it looks to be wider than the Chase/Cotter Tower!

This place is going to transform our skyline in such a way that alot of us who were born and raised here from my generation (I was born in 85) can't understand unless they are avid travelers (unlike myself) who have witnessed such transformations in other cities! My excitement is unbearable for I have never experienced such a change in my lifetime other than the mental gratification of suburban sprawl! (I was raided in Luther so seeing a Walgreen's pop up among newly built subdivisions was amazing to me!)

Pete, could you give us an update on the webcam? Thanks!

This building is already dominating our skyline and it is only a third of the way in terms of height!

I think I am just now getting a better perspective on how truly massive this tower will be in our downtown, and I drive by it daily.

Not even a 1/3rd yet!not even a Quarter way up in height but close!

I sent Pete a Private message asking for more information and an update as to when we might expect the camera to come back up. I will let you know if I hear anything...

just a small update from the Skyline cam. All three of the cores are up it appears with 2/3's of the forms done. Still the tower crane has not lifted. The camera is covered with rain so nothing can be seen now but the bleary lit up building. The building is really beautiful at night. Kinda surreal with it all white against the single lights from cars, street lights, stop lights changing colors etc. in the background. The top 3 completed floors are dark but the tower plus the building between the tower and parking garage (white van) are all ablaze.

Someone need to investigate the white van and try to get it out of there. It is really creepy.

I am having withdraws...

Not even a 1/3rd yet!not even a Quarter way up in height but close!

I was going to say that too, dmoor. The tower isn't even 1/4 of the way up yet, but already making an impact. Imagine if the cladding facade was already at the 10th floor, it would be among the prominent buildings in town already. ...

Very very much appreciate the still pics, thanks much guys!!!

Someone need to investigate the white van and try to get it out of there. It is really creepy.
It's already been established that the white van is owned and used by employees of the Journal Record.

I am having withdraws...

I might need to check myself in very soon.

Imagine the wow factor for people driving into OKC who know nothing about this.

They are now hanging more glass on the 3rd floor.and it looks like they have three more floor plates to finish on the 14th floor.

I was going to say that too, dmoor. The tower isn't even 1/4 of the way up yet, but already making an impact. Imagine if the cladding facade was already at the 10th floor, it would be among the prominent buildings in town already. ...

Very very much appreciate the still pics, thanks much guys!!!

Almost all the forms are in place for the 13th floor. The project is over a quarter way there since 12.5 x 4 is 50 (Yay!!)

They are now hanging more glass on the 3rd floor.and it looks like they have three more floor plates to finish on the 14th floor.

Just to clear this up hopefully once and for all...unless the contractors don't know what the floors levels are, as indicated in the attached photo provided by Doug Loudenback (Thankyou very much by the way!) if you click on it and then click again to get the largest view you can see the floor numbers on the Left side of the Construction elevator. The First floor is 1 then the little mezzanine floor that you see is actually the second floor of the podium building and is designated as the second floor. Then the first numbered floor indicated in the photo is Floor #3 and then is goes up in numeric order as we would expect it to. So they are finishing the forms for floor #13, and are adding glass to the 5th floor currently. If I understood you correctly.

http://i1033.photobucket.com/albums/a418/Okc_at_heart/DevonFloorDesignations.jpg

http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=23181

Viewing the live cam via the Oklahoman, I see that big rig crane that's down in the basement level of the Rotunda and it reminds me of a book my mom read to me when I was a child called, "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel". I'm sure they'll get that beast out of there somehow, but it'd be cool if they left it and outfitted it with a stove to heat the underground VIP parking garage, lol...

Viewing the live cam via the Oklahoman, I see that big rig crane that's down in the basement level of the Rotunda and it reminds me of a book my mom read to me when I was a child called, "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel". I'm sure they'll get that beast out of there somehow, but it'd be cool if they left it and outfitted it with a stove to heat the underground VIP parking garage, lol...

They will use that VIP parking/loading dock ramp and drive the crane out of there.

They will use that VIP parking/loading dock ramp and drive the crane out of there.

Yeah, I was well aware of that, but just use your imagination for a moment and be a kid (hence the lol at the end of my paragraph).

I believe that the level where the windows have started is the 3rd level. Doesn't it match with the 3rd floor on the east podium? The second floor of the tower might just be a BSc floor for the high ceiling in the ground level. All the other levels up to the sixth floor look to match with podium floors.

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll14/Platemaker_photos/Devon%20Tower/Photo0839.jpg
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll14/Platemaker_photos/Devon%20Tower/Photo0842.jpg

Just drove by the site on I-40. The number 2 crane has the lifting jack in position at the top now.

I believe that the level where the windows have started is the 3rd level. Doesn't it match with the 3rd floor on the east podium? The second floor of the tower might just be a BSc floor for the high ceiling in the ground level. All the other levels up to the sixth floor look to match with podium floors.

That was my point of the earlier post, The first floor that has glass just above the double height floor is floor #3, as you stated, and yes they match up with the podium floors.

Just drove by the site on I-40. The number 2 crane has the lifting jack in position at the top now.

Awesome thanks for the update! Its about time they made the jump! I can't wait to see how high the crane will be once it is in position!

Saw that the Main Place Tower in Houston (also by Pickard Chilton), has similar/same glazing system as Devon Tower with the transluscent vertical fins on one side of the building. The remainder of the building has horizontal transluscent glass elements......will be interesting to see if this building has the same lighting proposed for Devon, as Main Place is currently nearing completion.

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplace-1.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplace-2.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplace-3.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplace-4.jpg
Note the vertical fins on this side of building......look familiar?

The vertical fins do look quite familiar but the night time rendering of Main Places does not indicate that the vertical fins are lit up.

http://www.mainplacehouston.com/photography/Night%20Rendering.html

[QUOTE=redrunner;363631]The vertical fins do look quite familiar but the night time rendering of Main Places does not indicate that the vertical fins are lit up.

Correct, the main place website calls the vertical and horizontal elements glass sunshades.....glass can have some shading properties with less transparency and more reflectivity. Is the glass used for sunshading for aesthetics as well, perhaps lighting?

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplacehoriz.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplacedetail.jpg


Devon tower renderings dont indicate any glass fins illuminating either....

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/devon-rendering.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/DevonRendering5.jpg

Interesting...........

Main Place vertical fins.......

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk92/gandjdunlap/mainplacedetail-1.jpg

Crane #2 looks to be about equal in height to #1 right now.

Crane #2 looks to be about equal in height to #1 right now.

When I drove by a bit ago #2 was indeed equal to #1 with another section still hanging on the boom.

I just got back from the site and I was able to see crane extensions going in. You can see a few more pics here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53062852@N00/with/5023970301/).

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5023967109_eaf2ce3c50_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5024578104_424943eb3a_b.jpg

I was thankful for 12X optical zoom
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5023967763_e1bec77723_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5024580802_dbc3902bb9_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5024579534_9611f2a179_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5024582104_cd24dfe44c_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5024582790_7d86a53145_b.jpg

Fantastic photos Kinggober! Thanks for taking the time, this makes up for the lack of having the tower cam up an working, although now that crane #2 is now being raised we will not be able to see the crane top unless the camera is moved.

I just got back from the site and I was able to see crane extensions going in. You can see a few more pics here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53062852@N00/with/5023970301/).

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5024579534_9611f2a179_b.jpg


The formed out rectagular boxes on the left hand side must be where the framework of the rotunda will bolt into.

the tops of the two tallest tower cranes can't be seen on the Skyline cam currently.