BOK Tower (originally One Williams Center) was constructed in 1976 for The Williams Companies Inc. a petroleum producer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Williams, the CEO at the time, liked the look of the recently completed World Trade Center so much that he hired the original architect to build essentially a half-scale version of WTC Tower 1.
The lobby even has marble walls and wall hanginga similar to the old World Trade Center.
You have to keep the timing and context in place. It was the mid-50s, the economy was roaring, and they finally invented a way to hang walls and windows off of the structure itself, the curtain wall. This gave way to the International Style, which actually has some interesting and lovely buildings, but many of them look like gross sterile cubes, and they loved that at the time. Ornate buildings like the gothic skyscrapers (we adore so much today) were suddenly seen as old and dirty and dilapidated, giant sheets of glass were “the future,” sterile and gleaming and just unlike anything else, at such a massive scale. And of course so much cheaper than masonry buildings with complex upper floors and decorations, and faster, you could throw them up very quickly.
Of course after 70 years of this we’ve got a lot different impression. If I were old-money wealthy I’d definitely have a penthouse in one of the old gothic towers, with the outdoor gardens under archways. I don’t even care what city.