Architecture Tour set for April 14
The American Institute of Architects Central Oklahoma Chapter will present the 17th annual Architectural Tour from noon to 5 p.m. April 14. The self-guided, eightstop tour includes residences and commercial buildings.
Tickets go on sale Monday online and at select outlets. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the tour. For more information, go to www.aiacoc.org. The tour is part of Architecture Week, April 9-15, and a series of events that promote the profession and its importance to Oklahoma City.
Tour stops, with brief description from AIA, are:
• 323, designed by Gardner Architects, 323 NW 9, owned by Jeremy Gardner.
“323 is but a small, discrete piece of what was for the better part of a century, an eclectic mix of structures that made up the Swanson’s Tire Shop in Midtown.”
• Classen29, designed by Common Works Architects, 1419 NW 29. Owned by Adriana Gonzalez.
“A residential project developed by the Jefferson Park Neighbors Association seeking to provide an affordable for-sale housing product while improving vacant or dilapidated properties.”
• Squirrel Park, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, 1226 NW 32.
“Responding in a sensitive and sustainable way to Oklahoma City’s imperative to increase density in existing residential neighborhoods, Squirrel Park makes innovative use of modified shipping containers to create four single-family homes.”
• 415 E Hill St., designed by Smith Design Co. Home of Deatschwerks, a manufacturer of high-performance automotive fuel systems for the international marketplace.
“Neglected distribution warehouse, formerly used by Nabisco, (made) into a highly technical custom manufacturing facility.”
• Jones Residence, designed by Gardner Architects, 1120 Glenwood Ave. Nichols Hills. Rehabilitation of an existing, late-1940s Art Deco home. Landscaping in collaboration with Brent Wall of LAUD. Owned by Kyle and Kate Jones.
• Saxum at The Heritage, designed by HSE Architects, 621 N Robinson Ave. Saxum occupies the fifth and sixth floor penthouse of The Heritage, formerly the Journal Record Building, overlooking The Oklahoma City National Memorial.
• Sundial Residence, designed and built in 1919 with architect John Eberson by owners John and Katherine Sinopolous, 4000 N Kelley Ave.
A “Mediterranean-style residence ... patterned after Italian villas of the turn of the century . ... Many materials from Europe were used during construction including coral rock from the Adriatic Sea.”
• M. Dewayne Andrews Academic Office Tower, now home of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, designed by Bockus Payne Architecture, 800 Stanton L. Young Blvd.
“Included is a nine story tower, a fourth-floor roof garden, parking garage and new skywalks, which connect the College of Medicine to other campus buildings. ... The ‘Helping Hands’ mobile anchors the atrium and welcomes, engages and inspires everyone who steps through the front door.