Century Center
Details
A once-abandoned property transforms into a landmark on one of the most prominent corners of Downtown Oklahoma City
Project Type
Mixed Use
Location
Oklahoma City, OK
Client
Hurst Holdings
Contractor
Timberlake Construction
Size
275,000 SF
This adaptive reuse project saw the redevelopment of a defunct 1970s shopping mall into the home of Oklahoma’s largest newspaper. The tenant concept for The Oklahoman maximizes the potential for the fomer mall’s two-story central atrium. It is now a high-energy space that celebrates the dynamism of reporting life’s events. Employees and leadership rally around this renewed space into which visitors enter and over which its board of directors keep watch.
The choice to remove the building’s original exterior concrete panels breathed life into its interiors. Heat mitigation drives its new diaphanous steel mesh skin, while the transparent dialogue between the public and its press is restored. A new steel exoskeleton replaces the seismic bracing lost when the precast panels were removed. To help redefine the sidewalk edge, the ferrous frame expands eastward to greet pedestrians.
