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Old Posted Mar 14, 2015, 7:08 PM
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Please Let Tulsa Get This Tornado-Shaped Museum

Read More: http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/0...museum/387667/

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The electrifying edifice is the work of Oklahoma's Kinslow, Keith & Todd, who designed it for a magazine story about reimagining downtown Tulsa. The architects would build it over an old parking garage and jam its floors with a weather museum, severe-storms laboratory, and leafy, outdoor terraces. There would be a revolving restaurant on top, fittingly, and animated lighting would give the impression the facade is slowly spinning.

- The firm's Jim Boulware told Tulsa People, "This would be Tulsa's Space Needle. No one else would have one." A critic might add "or want one," given the visceral terror the visage might elicit in disaster survivors. Yet it's important to note the current design is much softer than an earlier concept, which shows cows, cars, and a house sucked into the sky like the freakin' Wizard of Oz. --- Looking at this thing, I can't think to add anything to Facebook dude Johnie Moss' perfect comment: "Oh hell yes!!!" --- The building will likely never see the light of day, but it's a bold vision.

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