BOK Tower (originally One Williams Center) was constructed in 1976 for The Williams Companies Inc. a petroleum producer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Williams, the CEO at the time, liked the look of the recently completed World Trade Center so much that he hired the original architect to build essentially a half-scale version of WTC Tower 1.
The lobby even has marble walls and wall hanginga similar to the old World Trade Center.
Maybe they look better on the inside, I don’t know much about them (and 2 of the 3 I can’t exactly visit now). But yeah, I hate ugly buildings. I feel like architects have somewhat of a moral imperative to make sky scrapers beautiful and free of advertisements and company logos. If you wanna slap some tacky logo on your building at ground level, I’m more okay with it (or at least not radically opposed) but skylines should be beautiful.
It’s way cool on the first couple of levels! The rest is typical office space. Worked there for a brief Y2K stint in '98.
Given all the sweet Art Deco buildings downtown, they about had no choice but to make it classy.