There's a building in Tulsa that was deliberately designed to be a miniature of one of the World Trade Center Towers

There is a building in Tulsa that looks very much like a miniature of a World Trade Center tower. It rises at the end of South Boston Avenue. And the reason it looks like a miniature copy of the World Trade Center tower is because it is.

The Bank of Oklahoma Tower was designed by Minoru Yamasaki -the architect of the Twin Towers – and was completed in 1976. He designed it for the Williams Center, an urban renewal project planned in imitation of the World Trade Center.

It is almost exactly half the scale of the Twin Towers at 52 stories and 667 feet tall. It has 31 steel perimeter columns per side, while the Twin Towers had 59. This creates the same eye-boggling vertical lines on each face.

It's surprising that the BOK Tower is not better known as a surviving relative of the destructed World Trade Center. Maybe it's because it lacks the defining characteristic of the Twin Towers – it does not have a twin. Originally Yamasaki proposed 25 story high twin towers for the Williams Center, but John Williams changed the plan by picking up the model and stacking one tower on top of the other.

Now that the World Trade Center no longer exists, the BOK Tower has taken on unexpected value as a reminder of a horrible day that the world wants to both remember and forget.

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