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Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building

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Assuming all goes to plan, the Legends Tower will reach a height of 1,907 ft (581 m)
AO
Assuming all goes to plan, the Legends Tower will reach a height of 1,907 ft (581 m)
AO
The Legends Tower will include three smaller towers reaching a height of 345 ft (105 m)
AO
The Legends Tower will include retail areas and entertainment areas, as well as a hotel
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Oklahoma's Boardwalk at Bricktown skyscraper was recently revealed as the upcoming second-tallest skyscraper in the United States. Designer AO is now aiming for even greater heights, however, and has carried out an ambitious redesign in a bid to make it the country's new tallest building.

Assuming all goes ahead as planned, the supertall skyscraper, now named the Legends Tower, will reach a maximum height of 1,907 ft (581 m), instead of the originally planned 1,750 ft (533 m). This figure is symbolic, marking the year Oklahoma became the USA's 46th state.

The new height will make it over 130 ft (39 m) taller than the USA's current tallest building, New York City's One World Trade Center. It will also put it at sixth-tallest in the world rankings, just behind China's Ping An Finance Center.

Alongside the main skyscraper there will be three smaller towers, each of which will rise to 345 ft (105 m). Between all four buildings, they will include 1,776 residential units, while one of the smaller towers will be called the Dream Tower and contain a luxury hotel branded the Dream Hotel.

The Legends Tower will include three smaller towers reaching a height of 345 ft (105 m)
AO

"Spanning approximately 5 million square feet [around 460,000 sq m], the project is a mixed-use marvel, including a 480-key Dream Hotel by Hyatt with 85 residential serviced condominiums in the Dream Tower; an additional 350-key Hyatt hotel with 100 serviced condominiums in the Legends Tower; 1,776 residential units ranging from market-rate to affordable workforce and luxury options; and a vibrant retail and restaurant scene with over 110,000 square feet [roughly 1,000 sq m] of space designated for commercial use, food and beverage, and a workforce development center for the community at the street and second levels," explained AO's press release. "The top floors of the supertall tower will consist of a public observatory, restaurant and bar where visitors will be able to enjoy the sweeping city views."

AO and developer Matteson Capital are currently requesting permission from the relevant authorities to increase the skyscraper's height. Estimated construction timelines have not been shared at this time.

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10 comments
Chase
Thanks to all the fracking, it better be built to Californian earth quake standards
Rusty
RIGHT in the middle of "tornado alley". Granted, most tornadoes skip over large urban areas because of a heat dome created over cities, but why tempt a tornado?
Treon Verdery
Maybe They will do a tall/tallest building where the upper stories are all lifted with rounded form, cowled (venetian blind/hyperporous opaque covering) silent drones. Along with stabilizing and lifting a long linear, occupiable sequence of vertical floors, and stabilizing against sway and windsway, the drones could be sort of like a dynamic way-making stabilized surface platform for landing and supporting flying passenger drones and flying cars. Idling flying cars and passenger drones could provide their own lift. An alternate could use "dancing anthropmorphic advertiser tube figure" dynamically rigid tubes to make lightweight upper stories with very light weight.
Ric
I don’t care how tall you are, if you’re ugly I’m not gonna spend the night with you…
Old_Gregg
This is going to be oddly tall for OKC. It's very flat here.
vince
If your going to redesign a skyscraper to be Americas tallest why not go the next step and design it as the WORLDS tallest skyscraper??
WB
they must have read my comments on the last design... glad to see they finally grew a set...
WONKY KLERKY
ref 'Designer AO is now aiming for even greater heights, however, and has carried out an ambitious redesign in a bid to make it the country's new tallest building.'

Errrrrr etc.x3:
How far, *if any*, did they get with ground works before they decided to extend the tower ??????
Explanatory:
*To state the obvious to building bods but poss' not to non-building bods,
the consequences, on extension of imposed load over foundation design, can be quite entertaining.
Put other; if the original found's were only designed for the specific loading matching original tower design . . ........*

Unsold
Look at the illustration. Check the adjacencies. Quiet, tree-lined streets in every direction. Either someone with a lot of money and zero esthetics is pushing this stillborn project for the publicity, or Oaklahomans have lost their effing minds. "Where are the walkable city" pedestrians? Who would be the commercial tenants in this boondoggle? How do you park it?
vince
I doubt the city's heat engine will keep an EF5 tornado from toppling this third mile high building to the ground.