Oklahoma City Police Headquarters

NEW HIGH TECH HOME FOR OKLAHOMA CITY’S POLICE DEPARTMENT

The City of Oklahoma City engaged ADG Blatt to design a new Police Headquarters that would showcase state-of-the-art community policing. The existing police headquarters and municipal courts complex had become obsolete and would have been too costly to renovate. The design team explored over 25 design scenarios before presenting three that maximized construction dollars, while minimizing construction time and disruption to services. Even though the new police headquarters is only 11% larger than the old headquarters, the program created much more efficient work areas.

The Police Headquarters was built on the existing police parking lot located on the western edge of downtown Oklahoma City’s Civic Center. The new three-story building is a modern adaptation of the Civic Center District design style. Sitting atop the 88,000-square-foot headquarters is a sloped diamond-shaped metal atrium roof that is an iconic identifier for the downtown area. Blonde, black and red brick, as well as tan calcium silicate masonry units resembling limestone, clad the four quadrants of the building. The stonework reflects the Art Deco design elements of surrounding WPA-era buildings constructed in the 1930s.