Amidst the ramshackle collection of lots, older buildings and art deco gems that is downtown Tulsa, sits a monument to the most recent "good old days".
At 750,000 square feet, the newly completed, fifteen-story Williams Communications tower -- the city's first new major office building in fifteen years -- sits like a steel and glass cube, reminiscent, in a strange way, of the "Borg" cubes of the "Star Trek" television series.And perhaps, all too much like the sci-fi Borg -- a bio-mechanistic race devoted to stripping away the essence of more natural beings -- the Williams cube is now sucking much of the life, and traditional swagger, from this former energy boomtown on the muddy Arkansas River...
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FULL STORY: Tulsa: Prisoner of the Cube?
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