This is kind of old news, but I recently stumbled across this video at NewsOK. It's about some weird "Tubinomic" skyscraper that local Architect Rand Elliot designed and now wants to build in downtown Oklahoma City.
I'm not too sure about this project. Yeah, it's kind of cool, but I think it's a little bit too different. Of course, it was designed by Rand Elliot. There's a reason he came in #76 on our list of the Top 100 Oklahoma Embarrassments. Here's what we had to say way back then.
This Frank Lloyd Wright wannabe is littering the Oklahoma architecture scene with atrociously out of place buildings. My wife would tell you that he designs buildings to look good in photographs. They do. Of course, buildings exist outside of magazines and typically are counted on to be functional. While the Chesapeake Boathouse is actually kind of neat, he is also responsible for that weird broken glass stuff at Kirkpatrick Bank in Edmond and most reprehensibly the funky, rave-like underground tunnels in downtown OKC.
First of all, let me say that blurb above "” and Rand's placement on our list "” was the result of Clark Matthews. Secondly, let me say that I totally want to do drugs with Rand Elliot.