Critique Welcomed A Study in Contrasts

[Brian Moore]

The big one is the Devon Tower, the tallest building in Oklahoma City and also the tallest in Oklahoma. (It's also said to be the tallest in the Plains States, which I guess would be Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, the Dakotas as well as Oklahoma.) It was completed in 2012 and reaches 844 feet into the air.

The small white building in the lower center is the Colcord Hotel. When completed in 1909 it was considered Oklahoma City's first "skyscraper." It reaches the dizzying altitude of 145 feet!

Sigma DP1 Merrill (ex-MacKillop).

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Contrast indeed! I also like the clouds, those curved sweeping wispy bits somehow go very well in the composition. (seems to me anyway)

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Where would modern architecture be without steel and glass? To be honest, I prefer the old style which seems on a more human level. I can imagine people in the old building. I just can’t imagine what goes on in the big building.

 

[Pete Askew]

Nefarious things no doubt, involving billionaires (and probably a few amphibians!).

Thos clouds do add a nice touch. I like the way the eye bounces off the mast on the way to the hotel!

 

[Brian Moore]

Contrast indeed! I also like the clouds, those curved sweeping wispy bits somehow go very well in the composition. (seems to me anyway)

Thanks Stevenson. Much appreciated.

 

[Brian Moore]

Where would modern architecture be without steel and glass?

That's a great question, Rob. It sent me on a minor search for maximum heights of non-steel, tall buildings. Plenty research left to do but at a glance there are a couple of cast concrete-clad buildings that reach the approximate height of the Devon Tower. (The Transamerica Building in San Francisco is one.) But the real tall ones in the world are all steel and glass I think.

 

[Brian Moore]

To be honest, I prefer the old style which seems on a more human level. I can imagine people in the old building. I just can’t imagine what goes on in the big building.

I can see your point, Rob.

 

[Brian Moore]

Nefarious things no doubt, involving billionaires (and probably a few amphibians!).

Thos clouds do add a nice touch. I like the way the eye bounces off the mast on the way to the hotel!

Thanks Pete. (I like it when I make your eyes bounce.)

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I can see your point, Rob. Although I find the image interesting.

Il the same as Rob here, although the picture