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i hope they build it because oklahoma city having the tallest skyscraper in America sounds hilarious

It's a kind of cheating using an antenna to increase the height of buildings 😅. The height should be the usable parts

The tallest building in america being in oklahoma city is funny asf 🤣

Never in my life have I heard anyone say, “I’d love to visit Oklahoma City.”

Can we just talk about how they are trying to put it in the heart of tornado alley 😂

In my eyes, One WTC is 1,368FT tall. Rooftops should be the official height instead of antennas/spire.

Reminds me of the super talls in the Middle East out in the middle of nowhere

For those ignorant about skyscraper economics? I suggest you read the Gensler PDF about how observation deck revenues often pay for skyscrapers ALONE starting way back with the Empty State Building as it was then known around NYC... The building wasn't popular with office tenants for decades, but it was a hit with the public as a tourist attraction from day one which not only paid off the building but literally kept the lights on. At the time of the report? The tower brought in $100M/year from lift tickets to the observation deck but only $10M/year from office leases.. That says all you need to know about the economics of all towers... The other revelation? Towers themselves can be loss leaders for developers IF they anchor larger real estate plays. Build a signature skyscraper and the public will climb over each other to buy units adjacent to or within site of the building and you can charge a healthy premium for these view-friendly apartments and make your money back and then some that way... This is why Jeddah, Dubai and all those other emerging cities only build one tall tower to anchor them with dozens of shorter more economical buildings next door where the profits are REALLY to be had...

I'm just a sucker for skyscrapers. I just want more, even though they might not be profitable or useful lol.

Living in Oklahoma and not far from OKC itself, this has to be one of the craziest things to happen in my lifetime. It seems as if it will be built and has a little to do with the new Thunder arena. I feel that it will have a casino in it somehow. If they make it an entertainment complex with a casino, they can make part of it into hotel rooms for guests making it a tourist destination.

Maybe just maybe they should instead try to improve their Public Transport, create more bike lanss and make the city centre more walkable cause it currently isnt good enough Its all about priorities and their current priorities doesnt match what the City actually needs to grow

Fun fact, the top floor on the new One WTC is actually one hundred feet SHORTER in height, than the top floor of the original North Tower WTC. One WTC's top floor is approx 1260 feet high verses the original North Tower's top floor being approx 1360 feet high. One WTC's tower spiral that is used to "boost" its said height, is 2 times taller alone than the entire Statue of Liberty and its podium complex.

I think it is a publicity stunt. Who or what companies are going to rent space in this skyscraper?

I’m sure that the builders would top out the building at 1907 feet and not the stated 1906. Their aim is to use the 1907 figure to memorialize the date of Oklahoma statehood.

If that tower is build then it sets a new standard for new incoming skyscrapers that megatalls in the US for the next decade. Yes, US will have megatalls and probably Canada too.

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It was recently approved for an unlimited height, but knowing that, it won’t push the developers to go beyond the 1906 foot limit that they had already established.

I love the desolate empty lots in every POV of the tower. Is this going to be that lair where the final boss lives in every post apocalyptic video game?

i love how theyre gonna build the skyscraper and the next day an EF5 tornado will bust through it

I love hearing about this project here first, instead of one of the other construction channels - great job finding this project!

Great job on this. I live in Dallas and work ALOT in Oklahoma and especially OKC, and this is the most I have heard of this project. Based on the info you provided and what I know of OKC - my guess would be as you mentioned. Even a halfway completed Phase 1 would up their game alot, build could never maintain a skyscraper that size. The ONLY way they could even dream of getting close is if the made the whole thing a casino bc that is the ONLY reason people go to Oklahoma.

*I’m actually at the Dream Hotel (Hyatt property) in *Hollywood* rn. I’m from LA native; just hosting a friend in town. It’s an absolutely stunning hotel. I would definitely fly out to *OKC* to stay at the new property when it’s built & I hope they build the tall skyscraper as well! 🙂 Great video

It would look great in NYC, Chicago or Toronto but laughably extravagant in today's anemic Oklahoma City skyline.

They cancelled one of these tall skyscrapers in Denver a few years ago, sadly. To look at the Denver skyline, it looks like they are all too scared to go higher than fifty or sixty stories tall (I do remember reading about how it is generally only profitable to have sixty or so floors, so anything after that wasn't as worth it, something to that effect. Not sure if that is true). It would be neat to have one really tall, signature tower in our skyline. I'm all for a nice 'scraper in Oklahoma instead of one of the big cities for once. A building like that would be a signature for the city, like the cash register skyscraper we have in Denver, only Oklahoma's would be harder to ignore, and more fun to go to the upper floors and see the view. Just my two cents. Who says there has to be x number of other tall buildings around it? I like skyscrapers, as long as they aren't too odd, like the proposed "leaning stacked blocks" design of World Trade Center Two in New York. They had a great initial "diamond top" design, only to go to this weird, leaning thing.

1 WTC is not actually 1776 ft high. If they had built it as designed, enclosed to the very top, it would be. Antennas should not count. They don't count on the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower).

The spire should not be counted. Someone should develop a system based on rate of reduction of cross sectional area to determine height. If the building cross section suddenly reduces over 80%, that is where the height is remeasured

Who is this tower for? I feel like locals don't live in OKC to live in a condo in an urban center (if you can even call that downtown urban), and those few for whom it would appear probably couldn't afford to live there (otherwise they would've moved to an urban city already). And if you don't have local buy in, there's not enough tourism in OKC to sustain such a project. Then it will be an endless cycle of no one wanting to be near the blighted empty tower, businesses and residences will move away from it as it becomes the bad part of town, further blighting the tower.

Basing the megatall's construction on the housing portion makes sense. They're going to need cash flow to provide more funds for the Legends Tower. I'd also add construction costs are much lower in OKC than NYC or Chicago. If the economy has a downturn, they could reduce the height. Most of the upper floors are standard as to shape and floorspace.

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I like it, it looks like the neon 'American Art Deco' architecture, but Futuristic 👍

Been waiting since they announced the tower for yall to do a video on it!

Im next door in Kansas, and theres a reason why nobody builds high up out in the plains. First of all, there is next to no demand for high-rises, mainly becuase land is cheaper to buy. Not to mention that there are still hundreds of cities small and big who’s downtowns are still mostly vacant. What about the wind problem? Since it is mostly alone in the skyline (another reason), nothing will be able to help somewhat soften their blows. Idk if it is factual or not, but there is usually a good gradient between short-medium-high rises.

I interned for AO last summer, was kind of shocked to see this proposal considering they don’t do many high rise developments, however they were an amazing team and i have no doubt they’ll be able to pull it off.

I always find it interesting when foreign YoutTubers do rundowns on US projects, they seem to forget that absolutely no company in the US would ever propose or use in constructing any building in the US in metric. Also, while inflation may drive its price to more than the Freedom Tower, the Freedom Tower was that expensive because it had to be tough enough to survive an airplane impact and another terrorist attack. So its about 2-3x stronger than a normal skyscraper would be. But its height is not the reason why such buildings have not been built...cost is, but more than that. Think about all of the current tallest buildings like the Shanghai Tower and Burj Kalifa. With few exceptions, most of them are mostly empty. NYC is seeing a glut of office space right now, so no one wants to build a building just for that, and to make things worse if they opted to make it housing, the housing would need to be super expensive to pay for the building. Me personally, I am for a new tallets building in the US, but I don't think this structure will be successful in OKC.

Love it - I wish OKC luck.

The video is leaving out an important detail which is transit. There simply isn't a large enough of a transit system to accommodate a building this tall. Theres a reason they don't build super tall buildings in the middle of fields. The parking deck would be massive and the neighboring roads aren't made to handle such large structures without a good integrated transit system. It just doesn't make sense.

Imagine all the things they could have done to the infrastructure of that city with that $200 million.

0:28 I THOUGHT that smaller one looked like the Devon Tower! A video about Oklahoma?! LET'S GOOOO!!!!! I've lived in Oklahoma all my life :D

OKC will make good use of this skyscraper. After it’s built, the city will still have a shortage of hotel rooms and housing so this is needed

1:28 Fun fact, another (probably unintentional) reference to an important event in the US is that the height of the tower with the antennae included is 1,792ft, the year George Washington was first elected into office.

Honestly expected it to be Austin Tx or somewhere like that. We already have like 20 more skyscrapers under construction right now in Austin. I’ve never seen so much construction and I’ve lived in every part of the US other than the North West.

One world trade tower isn't the tallest even in new York, all those towers in billionaire row have way higher roof height. The antenna is a cheap looking thing completely different from the original version.

This is a nice skyscraper tower design. To build this proposed 1906ft tall building in Oklahoma City has me scratching my head. I'd have expected this building to have been built somewhere completely different, like Dallas or Houston... or somewhere like Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, Charlotte, or Miami... or perhaps Atlanta. 🤔

I think it should be half the height they are pushing for, tbh. With the other shorter 3 towers, is most feasible. Having a 1900 ft tower in a country spread out city in tornado alley, it'll stick out and not look right. I don't think it should overtake the height of the WTC. On another note, I really wish the original WTC was still standing, they were more iconic than the blue glassy towers that are springing up everywhere. Not disliking the new WTC. I like the design, but it's not as iconic.

I had heard a lot about how this build was supposedly supposed to include a new arena for the Thunder, too, as though the arena they have now is still very young, and in fantastic repair, it was built extremely bare bones, and the NBA has specific requirements for their teams to meet including within their arenas, thus why they claim they need a new one already. Another thing I want to note is that OKC already has one of the nation's tallest skyscrapers in whatever that 950+ one is downtown. No one believed that would work out or be mostly rented out either, but somehow, it was and still is, even despite massive commercial and office defaults and bankruptcies nation wide. So don't be surprised if somehow this does get built AND succeeds in achieving at least 50% lease by year 3 of it being open.

Oklahoma already won the American Song Contest by sending K-pop, so this aint unrealistic

a skyscraper in a tornado city doesn't sound too smart

Interesting. Fwiw, it definitely wasn't my idea to build such a big building in a city that small. It could definitely work out for them.

This seems like a boondoggle. You can’t build a tall building and expect that to do all your work for you in terms of getting people to come and visit/live in your city. The reason NYC/Chicago became so successful is because they are ports and major import hubs. They had a century/centuries of being major hubs for trade, commerce, immigtation and and manufacturing before building their tall buildings. They were centers of stock exchanges, culture, wealth, and media. I am sure that OKC is a lovely place to live but you have to have those things going for you before a vanity project like the tallest building in the hemisphere will make sense. You have to have something besides the tower for people to see and experience for them to want to stick around. Otherwise you will get what happens in a lot of these cities: a tiny empty downtown surrounded by sprawling suburbs.

Minneapolis built IDS tower (Philip Johnson AIA) in early 70s w/ a 1.5 million metro area population - that worked; I don't see why Legends Tower won't work here

The skyline of OKC would be way off with the Legends Tower.

This skyscraper looks cool asf

I saw an article where one of the architects at AO was asked about designing a skyscraper like this for a very tornado prone area. His exact words: "It's basically just a math problem." Just like unified field theory!

There's got to be more than meets the eye here. OKC is in the size range of my home, which is here south of Portland Oregon. Our metro area is similar sized as Oklahoma City has. I'd argue (without any facts before me) PDX could rationalize some big ol' silly thing like that, not by projected growth a population base, but rather the abilities to bring broader base of income from company headquarters and the like that would most likely populate the complex. There would be no stomach for it here, but in the hands of a region interested in developing a new, suburban/metro/density pattern, that would a planned solution to the weird and laissez-faire methodology of growth in the previous hundred years in our cities, like the world's cities. I'd argue that collectively our world has become a bit lazy, looking at the present to solve tomorrow's needs when we haven't a solid clue what tomorrow will bring.

Looks cool!

The second Metrapolitan Building, in NY would have dethroned the Empire State Building in the early 30s. However. Construction stopped and was never resumed.

This will end up bankrupting everyone involved, before it even finishes being built. Then someone else steps it, spends only 1/4 of what it cost up to that point, then reduces it heights and everything not already built (unless it tops out first, which is realistically only half built, before bankrupting), then they finish it, actually spending more than the original estimate, and gets the accolades for only half price. Yet it also bankrupts them about a year later, since it will take OKC 10 to 20 years to fill it up, and that is if nothing else gets built during that time. So, again, someone steps in, buys it for half the price that group spent, so only paying 2 billion for a building that ultimately cost 8 billion, but could have been done for 5 or 6 billion if they were realistic about costs up front. Part of that is government involvement, all contractors always far underestimate, knowing that the government will eventually make up the difference to prevent the loss of the investment. This raises taxes and costs elected officials their jobs in a very conservative state. Except this is OKC, not NYC. They had to pull together every dollar, then borrow more to come up with 200 million. OKC will probably ultimately pay/borrow a half billion, even putting up more money to every buyer ion the process, including the last buyer, but at every step losing their percent of ownership. Yet the city will house every office there, to fill as much as possible, and may even convince the county and the state to do the same, maybe even moving most offices from around the state, offices put in other locations to serve the public, to fill more space. Which forces Oklahoma to do most of the public's work online, then forcing the emptying of many offices, but placing servers in the basement or parking garage. A boondoggle Oklahoma will never forget, but the rest of the country is barely ever aware of, because someone else will build taller first, so it never even owns that title. At least users of broadcast TV and broadcast radio for 100 miles in every direction will have much better signals. A boon for the poorest 10% of the population. Yet Tulsa will remain the most famous city in Oklahoma for having bombed their own city in order to kill more black people faster in 1921, becoming the largest, most famous race massacre in the world at that time. Hitler would beat them, but in killing Jews, Roma and the disabled, rather than blacks. Nazis would kill blacks, but Neo Nazis in the US post WW2.

what is the song at the beginning? I also heard it in BattleTech

8:19 - Yeah that and New York City ending up pricing those office ammenties like that begs the question of just how to justify lower prices for such a premium space for the Legends Tower's locale?

The Fact that it's gonna be built in Oklahoma City is Crazy but I don't think I'd live in the legends tower because OKC is a tornado magnet

Yeah that’s a very good idea to construct a skyscraper inside the tornado alley.

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I think the tower will end up costing much more than projected and may have to be reduced considerably. Aesthetically, such a building would only make the rest of the city look puny, and what would block or at least deflect some of the Oklahoma wind? In Chicago and New York, there are so many other buildings that can absorb some of the brunt of the wind, but Oklahoma City has nothing to stop it. I think they should have planned to increase the height of the other buildings on the site, staggering them somewhat and making each one unique. Then, if they still needed the last building, they could build it to an appropriate height. I am all for tall buildings, but such buildings need to respect their context - and this one wouldn't.

That's the most oklahoma city thing ever. The state is so flat that you'll probably be able to see the gulf of mexico from the top lmao

If you build it, they will come! Hell I would go see it and I’ve never said in my life “let’s take a vacation trip to Oklahoma”

You could fit the whole oaklahoma population in that new tower! Lol

I would love to see this happen!

I hope this happens cause Chicago and New York are gonna immediately respond with trying to build taller towers. It'll break the barrier for taller buildings to be built.

Mid nation/fly over cities are growing and offering more and more to its residential population. This seems odd today however it's a brilliant feather in what could become a future mega city. Plan for the tomorrow you want!

Not a big fan of it being built in OKC but do think we need more modern skyscrapers here in the US. They don't have to be taller than the One World Trade Center though.

I thought the plan was 1907 feet high, representing the year Oklahoma was admitted into statehood.

A tower that tall in Oklahoma City may seem as a joke since it is basically in the middle of nowhere. But who knows what such an investment can lead to in the long run? Perhaps OKC fifteen years from now is a shining metropolis.

Like the tower

I'm all for it. I hope that it can withstand earthquakes and tornadoes.

Did anyone think of the terrible tornadoes Oklahoma gets hit with every year?

I hope they build this skyscraper

This Reminds Me of that “ Great “ Pyramid of America Building in some Southern State , it’s Literally Crumbling down

Considering that many of the worlds “tallest buildings” are only 50% occupied , it sounds like a really bad, expensive idea.

The closest large construction project to me is the I-57 and I-74 interchange being reworked

Great for OKC. I live that city

so you would sign a lease at what i assume are high end apartments just to live next to a 3-4 year construction zone? yikes

The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia will be 3,281 ft when completed. The Legends Tower will look tame compared to it.

The way I see it, the Willis tower (previously the sears tower) is taller than the one world trade center

So America is planning on building the Next Tallest Tower in the middle of Tornado Alley? AWESOME 👍👍👍👍

I've lived in oklahoma city for thirty years. when the developer announced this project, the one thing that came to mind was SCAM. Ain't going to happen. We don't need more luxury apartments, we need more affordable housing..

adding a 300 foot tower to the top shouldn't be counted towards the hight of a building, it's vanity at that point

Just scrolling through the comments all you see are these armchair structural engineers saying tornado this and tornado that. This is not a single family home or some warehouse. It's a massive building that will be planned for its location. Oklahoma City and other cities in tornado prone areas have had skyscrapers for many years. It doesn't matter if this one is very tall or not, it's the design. No one says a word about the skyline of Dallas thr three hours south and it has some very tall buildings in a tornado prone area. OKC already has the 850 ft Devon Tower. No one's squealing "tornado!" about that very tall building. The concern is whether the city can actually support that much office, residential and retail space.

I am definitely all in for someone building a tower taller than the world trade center, but literally... Oklahoma City?

I think they’d be taking a huge risk building something like that in Oklahoma City but it could turn out to be well worth it. People think that no other American cities could possibly measure up to NYC or LA or Chicago but history proves that kind of thinking wrong. The United States and the world is full of cities that were at one point the main major cities and no longer are. As countries and empires grow, decline, and change, these things change. It’s silly to think that NYC will be the United States most well known and popular city forever. I don’t know if OKC will be the successor but that doesn’t mean it can’t rise up and compete. I’d like to know what’s driving the current growth.

The location just seems so odd. Usually huge skyscrapers are either buildt in neighrbourhoods densly packed with highrises, or they have their surroundings designed and buildt together with the skyscraper itself. I've never seen such a building simply being planted in a such a nondescript area.

I think it would be cool to be driving across the plains and see that thing for miles

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with all those empty parking lots downtown, the city would be much better off splitting the tower up into a couple dozen 5 story apartment buildings and creating an actual urban neighborhood or at least rebuilding what they probably tore down in order for people to park their metal boxes

It’s 1907 feet. Not 1906. It’s symbolic for the state of Oklahoma, that’s the year we became a state!

Isn't Oklahoma City in what is called "Tornado Alley". LOL.

I live in Michigan, I hear ‘a city under a million people’ I got excited… then let down…

As a Oklahoman ( yes we are real ) I think the tower is a cool idea

As someone thats from Oklahoma City this shi crazy. I can see where the developer is coming from tho since okc has the 5th hottest job market in the us while also being centrally located its a matter of time oklahoma city starts booming but I only see the smaller 3 towers happening but one thing that cant be underestimated is the amount of construction companies that are involved in this project so far

Are they going to build this in an area with cyclones and other powerful storms? I wouldn't want to be in this building when a storm hits.