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.
TIL BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma is basically a half scale model of the old World Trade Center
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
ViperActual@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Neat, I was visiting the area last September and took a photo!
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tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
We have an opportunity to do the funniest thing…
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I can't afford some airplane now🙁
AlexisFR@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y
What plane would be a 50% Boeing 767 though?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
A 737?
An A320 would be right in there too.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org · 3 pts · 1y
His building in Seattle is really wacky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower
houstoneulers@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ayyy i used to work there
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
There are two towers in Century City by the same designer, although their design isn't as similar, and they are triangular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Plaza_Towers
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
You just made it a target for terrorists with low ambition.
renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 1y
It's 75% harder to hit, that has to count for something.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
And me without my Beechcraft king air
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Take alone the either of the twin towers were a perfectly boring tower that shouldn't exist, the hide that fact by making two of them so it's not surprising that is is a cookie cutter design.