Tulsa botanic gardens
Studio 45 designed this 4,500 square foot building as a part of the Tulsa Botanic Garden’s capital campaign “Reaching for Generations”. The Botanic Garden successfully met a fundraising challenge for a grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation for construction of the building.
The structure, named the Mabee Grange, serves multiple purposes for the Botanic Garden with a large meeting room that can be divided for smaller functions. A panel of folding doors allows the space to be opened to the adjoining patio and lawn. The building exterior features cedar planks set in metal and decorative gab-ion, or wire cage walls filled with layers of rock including: blue sandstone, r
Interior features include alder wood plank gable walls with LED color-change lighting, a ceiling of spruce wood slats and a catering kitchen. Hunter Companies located in Tulsa was the general contractor. In addition to being used for Tulsa Botanic Garden programs, the building will be available for private events including parties and receptions.
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Sac + Fox Transportation Facility
The Sac + Fox Nation received a federal grant to build a transportation building to house the department that had been working out of a full-size truck!
The final design that was constructed fully delivers the goals that were important to the client. The facility also provides interesting materials and details, a distinctive silhouette, and an impressive exterior lighting scheme.
The client used the opportunity to develop a shared facility that will include a 50/50 split program to accommodate a community center in half the building. This shared building concept will be divided with an exterior breezeway. The butterfly roof structure will incorporate a water feature that utilizes rainwater runoff to create public art.
In addition to featuring the community center, the building was also designed and constructed to honor the Sac + Fox Tribal Elders and their Veterans Organizations.
Stonewood vision center
Stonewood Vision Center has a successful optometry clinic located in Broken Arrow, OK. This rendering of our concept matches the final structure very closely, illustrating how our design-smart approach meets the practicality of construction, and the expectations of the client.
The long-range plan for the company branding included pushing the cutting-edge service to new levels by creating an architecturally pleasing building that speaks to the level of innovation and care Stonewood Vision Clinic offers their clients.
The new state of the art clinic includes six exam rooms, contact fitting area, visual field-testing department and an optical sales floor.
Keystone Ancient Forest Visitors Center
The City of Sand Springs had been dreaming of putting a visitor center at the Keystone Ancient Forest for years. Finally the dream became a reality. Studio 45 Architects, The City of Sand Springs, and the citizens of Sand Springs collaborated to design the final product.
The design incorporates stacked stone, large storefront windows, a dramatic exterior canopy and an exterior fire feature. The interior space was designed to bring the outside in through the use of large expanses of glass and location that was chosen for the building. It appears to be perched on the edge of the forest.
The structure is clad in COR-TEN steel. This architectural material is composed of a group of steel alloys which were developed to eliminate the need for painting, and forms a stable, rust-like appearance. This contributes to the building blending into the surrounding environment and provides a virtually maintenance-free exterior envelope.
Tonkawa Urgent Care + Pharmacy
The Tonkawa Urgent Care + Pharmacy will provide necessary non-emergency care and routine medical procedures to the expanded community of Tonkawa. The building design is intended to provide a sense of comfort and security to patients while also creating an assurance of professional and reliable medical care.
Budget and program alignment is achieved through the incorporation of cost effective building systems including a wood-framed primary structural system, prefabricated roof trusses, concrete masonry and stock mechanical units.
As a general facility designed to facilitate a broad range of services, interior spaces are planned to provide multi-functionality and flexibility for adaptation.
Smokey River Amphitheater
Smokey River Amphitheater in Bend, MO (a suburb of Kansas City) came with an ambitious scope to create a regional landmark that would rival other Music Festival-Level Venues across not only the region but the continent.
Primarily, the goal was to design a Multi-Venue Campus Development that could facilitate a variety of event sizes. This ranged from the ability to create a flexible environment for small-sized weddings and events, to promoting medium-sized live venues for concerts with comfortable crowd capacities, to finally, the epitome of a full-capacity, 50,000 patron event concert ground for Festival-Level mu
Expanding on the Smokey River Amphitheater Concept and its supporting venues and buildings, the Owner endeavored to create a mixed-use retail,restaurant and hospitality Riverwalk District that would create further energy and recirculate the needs of all of the developed area and inject interest that continues to expand and develop, courting various brands from all across the U.S.
Turkey Mountain Wilderness Area Visitors Center
The Turkey Mountain Wilderness Area has become a popular destination for outdoor recreation enthusiasts and families alike. The Turkey Mountain Master Plan is the next major step toward restoring this preserved open land and making it accessible and enjoyable for all Tulsans for generations to come.
As part of the Turkey Mountain Wilderness Area Master Plan, Tulsa Riverparks Authority realized a need for a new visitor center complex to engage and educate visitors. Studio 45 was brought on board to prepare a conceptual design to capture and sell the vision.
Our design team focused on creating advantageous indoor/outdoor spaces while utilizing appropriate materials that harmonize in this wild yet urban setting.