BOK Tower (originally One Williams Center) was constructed in 1976 for The Williams Companies Inc. a petroleum producer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Williams, the CEO at the time, liked the look of the recently completed World Trade Center so much that he hired the original architect to build essentially a half-scale version of WTC Tower 1.

The lobby even has marble walls and wall hanginga similar to the old World Trade Center.

        • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          No offense to your state but my dad’s going there to build an Rv park. He asked me to go, I said fuck no there no reason to go to Alabama. I been there it was near some college town and it was nice. Had a chance to marry a rich girl there, even that couldn’t keep me in that state.

        • Zirconium@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Oh I hate Alabama too and I live here. Hii neighbor, isn’t Atlanta actually fun to visit and find stuff to do?

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          St. Francis here! I still think Tulsa is Oklahoma’s crown jewel and the nicest place I’ve ever lived or visited.

          • Fingolfinz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Yeah Tulsa really isn’t the worst place in the world, I don’t love the state but I’m a little soft for Tulsa. There are a lot of good people in that city

          • Fingolfinz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I ended up in St. Louis. Missouri as a state isn’t super great and has a lot of the same people as Oklahoma but St. Louis is like a bastion in a sea of red and a really affordable place to live. Oklahoma is probably a bit cheaper but areas of St. Louis are surprisingly cheap and it’s not the dangerous hell hole it’s portrayed as. I live in an area similar urbanwise as like broken arrow or something and it’s just quiet and chill here all the time

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    Imagine looking at that ugly as grey block of a building and being like “this is peak architecture and i must pay massive sums of money to recreate this for myself”

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Maybe they look better on the inside, I don’t know much about them (and 2 of the 3 I can’t exactly visit now). But yeah, I hate ugly buildings. I feel like architects have somewhat of a moral imperative to make sky scrapers beautiful and free of advertisements and company logos. If you wanna slap some tacky logo on your building at ground level, I’m more okay with it (or at least not radically opposed) but skylines should be beautiful.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        It’s way cool on the first couple of levels! The rest is typical office space. Worked there for a brief Y2K stint in '98.

        Given all the sweet Art Deco buildings downtown, they about had no choice but to make it classy.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    615·
    11 months ago

    Anybody got any jet fuel?

    Edit: I assume the downvotes are cause jet fuel doesn’t melt steal beams.