Living in Tulsa one of my favorite buildings was the BOK Center found on South Denver Avenue.  It’s naturalistic and art deco designs make it stand out  in downtown  Tulsa, but at the same time these themes are familiar in the city of Tulsa so it looks like it belongs where it is. It is a beautiful silvered arena designed by architect César Pelli, who took his time to consider the themes and artistic designs of Oklahoma to create this arena that was the first in a larger Tulsa project called Vision 2025.

My first time seeing this building my friends and I had bought tickets for a concert, and I remember waiting in line outside the arena and staring up at the structure. It was impressive, huge, and it was perhaps one of the few buildings that I had seen like it up close. I’m sure this elicited some form of conversation even from a group of teens among other conversations of other interests and concert we were going to watch.

The inside of the BOK Center can seat over 19,000 people and has a very impressive and state of the art facilities for concerts, sports events, and surprisingly monster truck rallies. I’ve had the pleasure of sitting in box seats and on the ground floor during concerts, and the inside inspires as much awe as the outside.