Oklahoma City's future skyline

[dmoor82]

I'm glad that competing proposal to Leadership wasnt chosen.That is just ugly!

[DelCamino]

I'm glad that competing proposal to Leadership wasnt chosen.That is just ugly!

I was just about the say the same. Dodged that one...

[Pete]

Here's another one of the proposals:

[MDot]

I think it's safe to say LS came out pretty nice compared to some of the proposals.

[skanaly]

What about Rand Elliot's design of the Turbinomic tower, isn't that a possibility?

[skanaly]

I know it's just a concept, but i see potential in this building

[Spartan]

Also, I scoured the Oklahoman archives and am 99.9% sure the original Leadership Square proposal was exactly what was built, except they added the atrium very soon after receiving approval.

That's not what it says in Lackmeyer's "Second Time Around" book, which corroborates Leadership Square originally being 60 stories tall. That's also what I've always heard personally.

[mcca7596]

I know it's just a concept, but i see potential in this building

That exact site is where the downtown elementary is going to go, FYI.

Regardless, I personally do not care for that rendering, just at first glance.

[Spartan]

I am pretty sure the era of 'super block' is over.

Well, it is, just not here in OKC...

[rcjunkie]

That exact site is where the downtown elementary is going to go, FYI.

Regardless, I personally do no care for that rendering, just at first glance.

Would look great on top of a 100ft Christmas Tree.

[skanaly]

I actually personally think it looks horrible in that location, but i do think it's a very unique building...even though rand elliot desgined it and he can weird...lol

[CuatrodeMayo]

Meh...Dubai knockoff.

[Spartan]

I actually personally think it looks horrible in that location, but i do think it's a very unique building...even though rand elliot desgined it and he can weird...lol

Yeah, I've always wavered back and forth on Rand. Lately I've been losing respect for him...

[Just the facts]

I know it's just a concept, but i see potential in this building

While it is a building at the core, most of what you see is a wind turbine. Here are a lot more pictures of it and a write-up on it. It is 795 feet tall.

http://www.arthitectural.com/elliott...s-turbinomics/

[Thunder]

Where and when will this be built? I was thinking somewhere near the Skydance bridge.

[Just the facts]

Where and when will this be built? I was thinking somewhere near the Skydance bridge.

It won't be built. It was an entry in a contest.

[mcca7596]

It won't be built. It was an entry in a contest.

I'm guessing it didn't win...

[MDot]

It won't be built. It was an entry in a contest.

What contest? Sorry, this is the first I've seen of it.

[Thunder]

What was the contest and what did win?

OKC need to stop bringing us proposals and renderings only to not actually do anything with them!!! Skydance for example is a MIRACLE!!! Its so frustrating to see how OKC are destructing itself (the leaders, the executives, whoever the important people are). We've lost this strange structure, we may have lost the oil derrick structure, and many other things. The Ferris Wheel is still hidden away in storage.

HUGE LOVE TO DEVON for moving OKC forward. I just hope what DEVON did will be enough to boom OKC into serious skyscraper capitol of the nation. Love the Skydance bridge. New I-40. Sure, we have progress, but only a few are progress while we still have many more that just go dead. :-(

I know, time flies. I gotta wait 10 years....maybe 20 years....to hopefully see at least 5 skyscrapers in construction at the same time. I want people to start picking OKC. Not Dallas. Not the weird DFW wording. Not anywhere else. Just pick OKC. Its all I ask.

[skanaly]

What about mixed used buildings on the new boulevard downtown? Is that a project in progress or is it just a concept?

[ljbab728]

What about mixed used buildings on the new boulevard downtown? Is that a project in progress or is it just a concept?

It's just a concept at this point. Nothing concrete has been proposed.

[Thunder]

Lookie, I found a picture. :-P

[ljbab728]

http://newsok.com/2012-profiles-okla...l-finance-news

[Pete]

Great summary by Steve.

Some things not mentioned: The completion of the CHK Arena expansion, the renovation of the Braniff Building, tenants in the Dowell Center and the new boulevard.

Of course, LEVEL will be completed in 2012 as will the Aloft hotel. The Packard/Guardian project should be wrapped up as well as 1212 N Walker along with several other smaller projects in Midtown.

Projects likely to commence in 2012: House of Bedlam in Bricktown, Pitman hotel project in Bricktown, Bradshaw apartments in Deep Deuce, The Edge in Midtown, the SandRidge amenities building, the downtown elementary school and I'm sure some others not already announced.

[wschnitt]

I do not think the Aloft hotel will be done this year