Boomer Sooner!!!

I think tis time for some photos I took last month:

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From a few other shoots of mine:

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Any old street of inner Norman, dispelling the rumour that Norman is a suburb. to me this isn't a very suburban part of Norman (i.e., parts from West 20th to East 12th Street).

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In memory of Will Rogers

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The Weitzenhoeffer Art Musuem in Norman

From another shoot:

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University Avenue leaving the campus, looking straight at McFarlin United Methodist Cathedral in central Norman.

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The famous OU Clocktower

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This is drawing from 3 of about 7 Norman photo shoots I've done in the last year... and I have so much more that I need to go out and photograph in Norman, and don't even get started on the rest of the OKC metro region. But I hope this was an enjoyable read for you.

Great pics. I have a few of my own, but I'm always too lazy or busy to upload them. Next semester I'm going to have a class on the 14th floor of the Sarkeys Energy Center, so I'll have to get a few pictures of the views.

I remember well that there's a really neat little rooftop garden on top of the Sarkeys Center, but not the tower portion of the complex. I think there's a rooftop garden on top of the tower, too, but that's my fuzzy memory from back in 1995.

I think it would be great to see the pics you've come up with, but no pressure. Thanks for commenting on these.

Cool looking school. The brick buildings make the campus reminiscent of Hopkins or Tufts.
Maybe I'll get around to posting some pics of my school second semester.

Actually, Okie State is probably more reminescent of Johns Hopkins, and Oklahoma City University is probably a little more alike Tufts. I don't think that OU's architecture is alike many other colleges. I haven't seen that many Prairie Gothic universities.

nice campus.

but if you want OK to be with the midwestern forums, you gotta be consistent and keep OK related forums there.

Wilco. I just thought I would share with the rest of the nation seeing as no one goes outside of their region's forum.

NIce U !

Nice architecture, very campus feelish.

Glad finals are over. Might go out and take some pics before I leave for Iowa since I'm out of the office till my birthday in Mid January and I have no classes either.

Nice pictures, but doesn't this thread belong in the Southeast forum???

Nice pictures, but doesn't this thread belong in the Southeast forum???

This response is NOT to start a firestorm and I just noticed OKC and Tulsa is stickied in the Midwest forum but from the years of reading through-and-through of this website isn't OK and Co. supposed to be in the Southeast forum???

Not this again...

Boomer Sooner!!!

I think tis time for some photos I took last month:

Sure is green for November. :lol:

Very nice pics SRG!

Approximately how many of those buildings on campus are new? Are some of them refurbished as well?

The new construction is just scattered around. I don't know what you mean by renovation -- they keep most buildings in great shape, with the exception of the Continuing Education building, a really hideous building from the 60s that sticks out like a SORE thumb. There's new construction all over. There's the new national weather center, the Stephenson Research Campus towards the south end of the campus, there's Devon Hall going up, Ghoule Hall will be the architecture building (not new, but a massive renovation, the only I can think of), and the Price School of Business (the building with the huge wooden doors) was renovated in 2001 I believe.

There's the new art museum -- the top rated university art museum in the nation ... the science museum is pretty darn big too, finished that one in 2002 I think. There was the new law library on Timberdell, Gaylord Memorial Stadium was expanded upwards of about 85,000 seats ... I think that pretty much sums it up. There's a major urban housing project on East 12th and Lindsey, and there are downtown historical buildings being turned into lofts as well. Smaller homes in the historic abstract-inspired infill homes.

Sure is green for November. :lol:

Well the most recent were ones I took at the Colorado/OU blow-out game, maybe a month and a half ago... the rest are from other shoots.

Actually, Okie State is probably more reminescent of Johns Hopkins, and Oklahoma City University is probably a little more alike Tufts. I don't think that OU's architecture is alike many other colleges. I haven't seen that many Prairie Gothic universities.

OU prejudices asside, how do the Norman and Stillwater campuses compare in beauty and collegiate setting? Seems like OU and OSU make a lot more use of brick than many universities do.

Among the old Big Eight, I always had the feeling that CU, KU, and ISU were the most attractive. Is that common belief and, if so, where does OU usually appear in the order of campus beauty?

Well, I'm also highly biased, but fair. Oklahoma State does have a really pretty campus, but the style is differant. OU's campus is just about all prairie gothic and faux gothic and ultra contemporary for the newer building. Okie State's campus is mostly Georgian. Actually, it's about all Georgian, even the newer construction.

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This is the Edmon Low Law Library, probably the most recognizable icon in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Stillwater's streets are mostly these tiny, narrow streets with red brick and white wooden homes on both sides, and there's a lot of nightlife and shopping areas, great college town atmoshphere. Norman is a little more refined ... bigger, partly because it's almost becoming a twin city with OKC. There's a lot of biotech and high-end retail and officed being built in Norman all over town right now.

More OSU pics (not mine)

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Some here
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I think there's 25,000 at OSU these days?

KU is also pretty.

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K-State is my favorite in the Big XII, followed by Oklahoma State, then OU, then KU, and then Missouri.

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K-State's Anderson Hall

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K-State's Hale Library

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K-State

Don't know a lot about CU, but CU has a lot of drab tan buildings that don't do it for me. Most of its beauty is natural setting, but K-State, OSU and OU don't get rainchecks from mother nature, do they? Commonly MU ranks at the top of the pile academically, followed closely by ISU, OU, and KU, sometimes in a tie, sometimes in that order, sometimes out of order. But those 4 are VERY good for public universities these days.... OSU has the most national titles in the conferance, but OU has more than the rest combined, and that includes Nebraska and Texas.

OSU has the most national titles in the conferance, but OU has more than the rest combined, and that includes Nebraska and Texas.

SRG, what effect (if any) does Cowboy upgrading of both football and b'ball fascilities have on the Sooners? I do know that Okla State is usually fully competive with OU in b'ball and that in football, when the two schools meet head to head, OkSt tends to hold its own.

Do you ever preceive a time when the two schools will be looked at equally in atheltics? how abut academics?

Okay, both schools are very good, very competitive, clearly. Both schools were in the Final Whatever tournament in baseball, OU went a little further than OSU ... Actually OU played Rice, who I had to root for over OU (The "R" in "SRG" stands for Rice).

In basketball, Oklahoma State is a well-known basketball powerhouse school. I thought that was over, seeing as Eddie Sutton stepped down, but his son Sean stepped up as the head coach and OSU is actually having a really great year so far. I would expect OSU basketball to remain big. B-ball is the biggest sport at OSU ... and the Athletic Village doesn't affect them, they play in Historic Gallagher - Iba Arena, which was renovated a few years ago.

It won't affect OU at all except that our in-state rivals will get better, which benefits us. I root for OSU when they aren't playing us, same for Nebraska... those are friendly rivalries, unlike Texass, I always root for whoever plays them.

The plan is to expand Boone Pickens Stadium up to 80,000 some day, but the first phase is 65,000 ... where they'll close in the end zone and have a cool little arena thing, and then they'll add another level of seating after its expanded to 65,000, bringing it between 80,000 and 90,000, only if football takes off.

In the Bedlam Game series in football, OU beats OSU 9 times out of 10, but OSU will ALWAYS give us a run for our money, and they always show up to play a great game.

OU prejudices asside, how do the Norman and Stillwater campuses compare in beauty and collegiate setting? Seems like OU and OSU make a lot more use of brick than many universities do.

Probably because brick is the most abundant building material in Oklahoma, We have red clay soil. Almost everything is built with brick, including the majority of suburban homes. Some friends of ours came down from the north and thought that every home was really nice and must be really expensive because they were all brick... Really that's just the norm. When I go elsewhere I think houses with wood siding look weird... lol.

Probably because brick is the most abundant building material in Oklahoma, We have red clay soil. Almost everything is built with brick, including the majority of suburban homes. Some friends of ours came down from the north and thought that every home was really nice and must be really expensive because they were all brick... Really that's just the norm. When I go elsewhere I think houses with wood siding look weird... lol.

i never put the connecction between source and cost for bricks before. shane, so is it bascially the transport of said bricks that make brick houses so expensive? sounds like it has to be a 90% transportation issue.

Homes in Oklahoma are required to be built up to certain wind speed standards, and there are ratings for that.

Brick is a stronger building material. You see those wooden frame houses in the rest of the nation, they don't stand up as well.

I suppose it would tack on quite a bit of expense in brick material for taxes crossing state lines and actually paying for the transportation.