Engineering the Impossible: Building an Iconic Arena with No Identical Panels
Challenge The BOK Center presented an architectural paradox: to create Cesar Pelli’s iconic vision for a 565,000 SF arena, with no two exterior walls sharing the same radius or geometry. The building’s envelope required thousands of one-of-a-kind components, including the centerpiece—an 80-foot cantilevered glass curtain wall comprising 60,000 square feet of custom-fabricated glass panels—each dimensionally…