"Suburban"

Posted by slackmeyer
on November 20, 2008M at 11:15 am

Two months ago the Downtown Design Review Committee unanimously approved plans for a new headquarters for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. Today, committee member James Loftis said something about that project in comparison to the Devon tower that he didn’t express in September before his vote:

“We’ve had  a suburban approach to the chamber building. This is a very urban thing – it goes far beyond anything I thought we’d see in our lifetimes…”



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Devon Energy, urban design

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Comments
Comment by Andrew on November 20, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

Failure. Simply.

Comment by steven on November 21, 2008 @ 9:46 am

Agreed. Another Lack of Vision at the City and Chamber. They fail to make it a truly urban building. They are wanting to promote Core To Shore, why aren’t they building there to jumpstart development instead of building on Bennett’s land?

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