Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Tulsa, Oklahoma



This glass box came online in 1969 as the home for the city government, culminating construction on the Tulsa Civic Center that had been on the drawing board since 1924. When hatched nearly a half-century earlier the “Tulsa Plan” called for a series of highly ornamented classical buildings but property acquisition and building clearing did not begin until 1952. So the plan was executed with a set of modernistic steel-and-glass boxes.

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