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The Journal Record
"Elevations: Hardesty Arts Center" - 5.11.12
In-depth interview with Bob Schaefer and Bret Pfeifer on the design process of Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Hardesty Arts Center.
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The Journal Record
"Designing the Hardesty Art Center, Pt 1" - 5.11.12
YouTube video. Robert Schaefer and Bret Pfeifer of Selser Schaefer Architects discuss the first attempt to create a new visual arts center for the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Okla. This interview and video by Kirby Lee Davis augments an "Elevations" article in the May 11, 2012, issue of The Journal Record.
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The Journal Record
"Designing the Hardesty Art Center, Pt 2" - 5.11.12
YouTube Video. Sent back to the drawing board, Robert Schaefer and Bret Pfeifer explain how the Selser Schaefer Architects team came up with the blueprints that Flintco is now raising as the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa's Hardesty Arts Center. This interview and video by Kirby Lee Davis accompanies a May 11, 2012, article in The Journal Record.
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The Journal Record
"The Hardesty Rulebook" - 5.11.12
YouTube Video. Bret Pfeifer and Robert Schaefer of Tulsa's Selser Schaefer Architects discuss the extensive manuals their firm prepared on how to build the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa's Hardesty Arts Center. This interview and video by Kirby Lee Davis accompanies an May 11 article in The Journal Record.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Tulsa 40 honorees selected" - 2.15.12
The Tulsa Business Journal is pleased to announce Selser Schaefer Architects associate, Hank Spieker, to the 2012 class of The Tulsa 40, the business-to-business newspaper's annual list of outstanding up-and-coming, under 40 professionals in the Tulsa metropolitan area.
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The Journal Record - Square Feet Edition
"Tulsa experts share guarded optimism for 2012" - 1.27.12
Principal, Bob Schaefer, shares his insight into this year's outlook for Tulsa's commercial real estate market.
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The Journal Record
"Building construction contracts decline" - 1.23.12
In a discussion for an upcoming issue of Square Feet Magazine, both Bob Jack of Manhattan Construction and Bob Schaefer, a principal and founder of Selser Schaefer Architects, projected 3-percent improvement this year.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Top construction stories of 2011" - 1.18.12
Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Hardesty Arts Center listed as a Top Construction Story of 2011.
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American School & University.com
"2012 American School & University/SchoolDesigns.com Calendar of Industry Events" - 2012
The Oklahoman
"Oklahoma Architects earn Awards of Excellence" - 11.20.11
The Oklahoma statewide chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced the winning entries for the 2011 AIA Oklahoma Awards of Excellence program recently in Stillwater.
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Tulsa World
"FYI: Business (AIA Design Awards, 200 E Brady, TCC Center for Creativity)" - 11.20.11
Selser Schaefer Architects was recently recognized with two major design awards at the state and regional level by the American Institute of Architects.
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Stillwater News Press
"Stillwater school district breaks ground on new elementary school" - 10.27.11
Stillwater teachers and administrators joined parents, students and city officials on a plot of land on the eastern outskirts of the city Wednesday afternoon to officially begin work on a new elementary school.
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Tulsa World
"Thunderbird to add female barracks" - 10.27.11
Thunderbird Youth Academy is building a new women's barracks to meet the growing demand by female high school dropouts.
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Tulsa World
"Thunderbird Youth Academy breaks ground for women's dorm" - 10.26.11
Thunderbird Youth Academy is building a new women's barracks to meet the growing demand by female high school dropouts.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Pfeifer, West named Associates" - 9.26.11
Selser Schaefer Architects has promoted Bret Pfeifer and Shannon West to associates.
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Tulsa World
"Animal Shelter Debuts" - 9.24.11
The city will celebrate the grand opening of its state-of-the-art animal shelter Saturday with half-price adoptions and free dog food.
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Tulsa World
"Business People (Bret and Shannon promoted)" - 9.18.11
Selser Schaefer Architects promoted Bret Pfeifer and Shannon West to associates.
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Tulsa World
"Business People (Chad, Joey and Ippei Hired)" - 7.17.11
Selser Schaefer Architects has announced that Chad Walker, Joseph Evans and Ippei Iwata have joined the team as architectural interns.
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Tulsa World
"Arts & Humanities Council Breaks ground on Hardesty Arts Center" - 5.25.11
The newest addition to the Brady Arts District will be officially known as the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Hardesty Arts Center.
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Tulsa World
"Leadership Tulsa announces class 45" - 1.9.11
Leadership Tulsa has announced the newest 50 members who were named to Leadership Tulsa Class 45.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"2010 EDI Award finalists: Best Workplace for Young Professionals" - 12.6.10
This award recognizes a business that fosters an atmosphere for young professionals to work and grow. Such a business encourages community involvement, supports further educational opportunities, helps cultivate young leaders and promotes a successful work/life balance.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"2010 EDI Award finalists: Lifetime Achievement in Business" - 12.6.10
Through the Lifetime Achievement Award, the TBJ seeks to identify exemplars of entrepreneurship whose success can teach future generations. First, the award recognizes entrepreneurial excellence.
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OKC Biz
"Local architects were honored for projects built and unbuilt at new awards program" - 11.24.10
Elliott + Associates emerged as the big winner of the inaugural AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards, taking home three of 10 honors presented. The awards luncheon was held Oct. 28 at Cox Convention Center, presented by the Central Oklahoma chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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The Journal Record
"Cherokee Nation Businesses plots buying spree" - 11.2.10
Cherokee Nation Businesses intends to go on a buying spree, budgeting $25 million to $30 million for acquisitions over the coming fiscal year as it starts a long-term expansion outside of casinos and hotels.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"2010 Women of Distinction: Janet Selser" - 9.13.10
Janet Selser came about her career path almost by accident. “My freshman and sophomore years of high school, when I had to choose my electives, I took the traditional path of typing,” she said.
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Tulsa World
"Artwork to be star of art in architecture fundraiser" - 8.26.10
Art will star when The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation hosts its 13th annual Art in Architecture event Sept. 16 at the Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community Center downtown.
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Tulsa World
"A doodle can be worth a thousand words, too" - 8.5.10
Shannon West keeps a notebook handy at all times so when inspiration hits, even at 2 a.m., he can get his ideas down on paper.
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The Journal Record
"These Walls: Wallace Engineering headquarters" - 3/25/10
The next time you walk by an empty shell of a building, consider the possibilities within those dusty old walls. To aid your imagination, stroll through Wallace Engineering’s downtown Tulsa headquarters.
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Tulsa World
"Business people - Andrew McCready promoted" - 3.7.10
Selser Schaefer Architects has promoted Andrew McCready to an associate.
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The Journal Record
"Journal Record to Honor Innovators" - 3/1/10
From developing products designed to ease radiation burns to creating an online game aimed at sharpening students’ critical thinking skills, the latest group of Innovator of the Year honorees continues.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"McCready named associate at Selser Schaefer Architects" - 3.1.10
Selser Schaefer Architects has promoted Andrew McCready to an associate.
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The Journal Record
"These Walls: Tulsa Community College Center for Creativity" - 2.18.10
Few places scream out “cutting edge” like the Tulsa Community College Center for Creativity. It stands from the corner of Ninth Street and Boston like a polar opposite to the classic brick structure it faces.
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Cadalyst Magazine
"What a Difference a D Makes" - 1.22.10
When it comes to conveying the vision of a building design, Selser Schaefer Architects found that 3D can succeed where 2D fails.
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The Journal Record
"Cherokees fill market hole with $6.5M Ramona casino" - 1.21.10
Cherokee Nation Entertainment broke ground Thursday on a $6.5 million casino expected to fill a north Tulsa market hole. For the developer of Tulsa’s growing Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, the 20-acre project set for the small community of Ramona presents something of a return to basics.
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The Year in Infrastructure
"2009 Be Inspired Finalist" - 2009
Located in the urban setting of Tulsa, OK, the Tulsa Community College Center for Creativity is a $15.5 million facility housing media production, distance learning, digital media arts, visual arts, computer services, and multipurpose assemblies.
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Tulsa World
"Shift of tax funding sought" - 12.25.09
Tulsa County officials want to buy land for a new juvenile center.
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OKC Biz
"Architecture projects in OKC raked in top awards at state chapter of AIA awards of excellence programs" - 12.21.09
At the Oklahoma chapter of the American Institute of Architects Awards of Excellence program in November, it was all about Oklahoma City. From a collection of 76 statewide entries, projects in OKC took nearly all top honors, most of which were in Downtown and the inner city, by architects who office in the same areas.
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Tulsa World
"FYI: Business (302 E. Brady - residential merit award)" - 11.29.09
TTCU, which began in a cigar box in Room 326 of the old Tulsa Central High School, celebrated its 75th anniversary Nov. 19 at its Midtown branch, 3720 E. 31st St.
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Cherokee Nation News
"Cherokee Nation Honors Indian-Owned Businesses" - 11.25.09
To honor the success and accomplishments of Native American owned businesses, the Cherokee Nation recently held the second annual Tribal Employment Rights Office Awards Ceremony at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Catoosa. Selser Schaefer Architects out of Tulsa received the Indian Consulting Firm of the Year Award for the service they provide in community organizations.
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GTR Newspapers
"TCC Opens Center for Creativity" - 11.23.09
Tulsa Community College has unveiled its Center for Creativity, the $22 million, 46,289-square-foot building in the heart of downtown Tulsa at 919 S. Boston Ave. The building was designed by the award-winning firm of Selser Schaefer Architects.
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The Journal Record
"AIA official: State architecture industry catching up to recovery" - 10.26.09
While the nation’s struggling commercial construction industry may be showing the first signs of a recovery, architects in Oklahoma are still dealing with a rocky economy.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"TCC Center for Creativity Good for Business" - 10.26.09
The downtown Tulsa streetscape got a lot more creative this year with the completion of Tulsa Community College’s Center for Creativity, situated on the southwest corner of Boston Avenue and Ninth Street.
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Tulsa World
"Creating Space" - 10.22.09
Tulsa Community College's newest building, dubbed the Center for Creativity, hosts a variety of growing programs, including digital media classes that have quadrupled in popularity this year.
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Tulsa World
"AIA honors top projects" - 10.18.09
The American Institue of Architects, Eastern Oklahoma chapter, held its inaugural design awards programe Oct. 8 to celebrate excellence and to recognize architectural achievement in the region.
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The Journal Record
"Architectural firms receive awards" - 10.14.09
AIA Eastern Oklahoma, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, presented two Honor Awards at its inaugural design awards program. Honor Awards were presented to Freese Architecture for Urban Green and Selser Schaefer Architects for the Tulsa Community College Center for Creativity.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Selser Schaefer Wins Big at AIA" - 10.13.09
Tulsa firm Selser Schaefer Architects wins lion's share at AIA Eastern Oklahoma's inaugural design awards.
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Tulsa World
"Tulsa's Hidden Treasures" - 10.8.09
Tulsa is a city known for its architecture - from nationally known landmarks such as the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home known as "Westhope," from the gleam of Oral Roberts University's various facilities to the Art Deco stateliness of the Mid-Continent Building.
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Tulsa World
"Art in Architecture to benefit CF" - 9.26.09
The Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College's Metro Campus will be the location for the 12th annual Art in Architecture event benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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Tulsa World
"Leadership Tulsa announces class 42 members" - 8.23.09
Leadership Tulsa has announced its 50 newest members who make up Leadership Tulsa Class 42.
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Tulsa People
"Fun Houses" - 7.1.09
Hey parents: If your kids are begging for a playhouse, here's an opportunity to win one of three, and help area foster children as well.
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Tulsa Community College
"Building the Center for Creativity" - 6.30.09
Tulsa World
"5 Questions with Janet Selser" - 5.29.09
Janet Selser is principal of Selser Schaefer Architects. She also is president of the American Institute of Architects, Oklahoma chapter.
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Tulsa World
"Funds lack not delaying Juvenile Justice Center" - 4.24.09
Commissioners voted 3-0 this week to hire Selser Schaefer Architects to provide a preliminary design for a new structure to replace the Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau's facility at 315 S. Gilcrease Museum Road.
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Tulsa World
"Playing with nature" - 4.16.09
Sustainability and the environment is the theme for this year's Operation Playhouse, a project for local designers, architects and builders to create luxury playhouses to benefit Tulsa's Court Appointed Special Advocates program.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Plans Complete for Visual Arts Center" - 3.30.09
The Journal Record
"Environmental seminar series continues" - 3.20.09
The next session in the Greening the (918) Seminar Series is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Central Center at Centennial Park, 1028 E. Sixth St. in Tulsa.The seminars are presented by Sustainable Tulsa and Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor’s Green Team.
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The Journal Record
"Selser Schaefer wins overall Innovator of the Year Award" - 3.13.09
Selser Schaefer Architects received the overall 2009 Journal Record Innovator of the Year award at a ceremony honoring business innovation Thursday evening at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center.
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The Journal Record
"Innovator of the Year Profile: Selser Schaefer Architects" - 3.13.09
Designed with Tulsa’s first “green” rooftop, Tulsa Community College’s Center for Creativity is intended to be bold, transparent and welcoming. Selser Schaefer Architects designed the new state-of-the-art building using a combination of traditional and digital arts.
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Tulsa World
"Business People (Janet AIA President)" - 2.22.09
American Institute of Architects, Oklahoma chapter, has installed Janet Selser, principal of Selser Schaefer Architects, as its president.
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The Journal Record
"The Journal Record names winners of the 2009 Innovator of the Year Awards" - 2.3.09
More than 30 entities representing a wide variety of industries, from architecture and agricultural to e-commerce and energy, will receive special recognition at The Journal Record’s annual celebration of ...
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Texas Construction Magazine
"Best of 2008" - 12.30.08
AIA Oklahoma Newsletter
"Design Perspectives- And Now Presenting…A Theme!" - Fall 2008
Tulsa World
"Philtower hosts Art in Architecture Gala" - 8.26.08
The Philtower, one of Tulsa's most prominent buildings, will join some of the area's most talented artists when the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation holds its 11th annual Art in Architecture event Sept. 25.
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Tulsa World
"Designers create elaborate playhouses to benefit CASA" - 4.23.08
Kids can have dream houses too.
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Tulsa World
"Business People: Janet Selser named VP of AIAOK" - 3.09.08
AIA Oklahoma, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects, has elected Janet Selser of Tulsa as vice president, and J. Shelby Navarro of Tulsa as secretary.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Tulsa's Top Projects" - 3.3.08
Despite a two-year sector slowdown and a generally pessimistic national outlook on the industry, commercial construction continues to explode in the Tulsa marketplace.
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Tulsa Business Journal
"Focus: Architects & Engineers-The buildings that built Tulsa" - 2.04.08
Thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of local businesspeople and developers, downtown revitalization has been given more than just lip service in recent years.
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AIA Oklahoma Newsletter
"2007 Honor Award: Morton Healthcare Center & 2007 Merit Award: 200 E Brady" - 10.9.07
The Oklahoma statewide chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Oklahoma) announced the winning entries for the 2007 AIA Oklahoma Awards of Excellence program at the AIA Central States Region conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma over the weekend.
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Tulsa World
"Cystic Fibrosis Foundation benfits focuses on architecture" - 9.26.07
Ten years of design decadence is the theme of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's 10th "Art in Architecture" event set Thursday at the International Plaza Building, 1350 S. Boulder Ave.
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Tulsa World
"AIA Honors two local projects" - 9.23.07
Selser Schaefer Architects was recognized for its work on the Morton Health Care Center by the Oklahoma chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the AIA Central States Region Conference, held recently in Tulsa.
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Tulsa Preservation Blog
"Holloway Wire Building to be Rehabilitated" - 9.10.07
Another Tulsa business owner is choosing to renovate a historic downtown building to make room for growth. Two-Hundred East Brady L.L.C., owned by creative experts Tom and Susan Wallace, has purchased the Holloway Wire Rope Building at 302 E. Brady St. from the Tulsa Development Authority.
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BD+C Magazine
"200 East Brady - 24th Annual Reconstruction Award" - 9/1/07
Until July 2004, 200 East Brady, a 40,000-sf, 1920s-era warehouse, had been an abandoned eyesore in Tulsa, Okla.'s Brady district.
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Tulsa World
"BB-52 Casual Café opens in midtown" - 6.3.07
A second B-52 Pizza restaurant, called the B-52 Casual Cafe, has opened in midtown Tulsa at 3023 S. Harvard Ave., in the Ranch Plaza Center.
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Tulsa World
"Seven local firms listed as best places to work" - 3.27.07
Seven companies with headquarters or significant operations in the Tulsa area are on a new list of the best places to work in Oklahoma.
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Tulsa World
"Vision now coming into focus" - 12.24.06
Proponents of Vision 2025 might well have imagined stories such as these when they pushed for the $885 million economic development package.
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Tulsa World
"Architectural Firm busy shaping Tulsa's cityscape and beyond" - 7.12.06
Selser Schaefer uses teamwork to provide its clients with personal service.
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Tulsa World
"Designing the Tulsa metro area and beyond" - 7.12.06
Selser Schaefer Architects uses teamwork to provide its clients with personal service.
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Tulsa World
"Area businesses named best places to work in Oklahoma" - 5.24.06
The Best Places to Work in Oklahoma was recently announced for 2006.
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Tulsa World
"Tulsa companies on 'best places' list" - 5.6.06
Best Companies Group announced the winners of the inaugural Best Places to Work in Oklahoma. This new initiative is dedicated to finding and recognizing Oklahoma's best employers.
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The Journal Record
"Tulsa garden plan unveiled: Centennial project would include lake, amphitheater, trails" - 1.23.06
Planners believe the centennial botanical garden in Tulsa, when it's fully equipped, will be as dramatic and educational as any botanical garden in the United States. A master plan for the 300-acre, $40 million Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden/Research and Education Center was unveiled Thursday at the Post Oak Lodge in Tulsa.
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The Journal Record
"Design winners announced" - 11.14.05
The Oklahoma chapter of the American Institute of Architects has presented the 2005 AIA Oklahoma Awards of Excellence.
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Tulsa World
"Lofty goals along Brady" - 10.9.05
After years of relative inactivity within a cluster of old warehouses, a flurry of renovation projects are in the works or under way within blocks of each other in the Brady District.
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Tulsa World
"Home for boys gets a face-lift" - 5.19.05
The Tulsa Boys' Home in Sand Springs will be unveiled today after $17.2 million in renovations.
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Tulsa World
"Food bank aided by 'can-struction'" 1.23.05
Architect Dominic Spadafore was confident in the structural integrity of the suspension bridge he and others built Saturday.
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Tulsa World
"Vision 2025: Contract OK'd for projects' managing firm" - 2.10.04
County commissioners approved a $725,000 contract Monday to expedite Vision 2025 projects.
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Tulsa World
"With Hale intact, OK sought to fund Library@51st" - 2.6.02
The people spoke and library officials listened.
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Tulsa World
"FYI Ect.: TCI Puts Digital TV in 7 More States" - 11.27.97
Tele-Communications Inc., flushed by the successful roll-out of its digital cable television product in Denver, has begun selling the system in eight more markets in seven other states.
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Tulsa World
"Architect Firm Builds Reputations" - 6.18.97
The Southwest Health Center project in Jenks, below, by Selser Schaefer Architects of Tulsa has won the Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects. The 9,500-square-foot $1.2 million building houses a primary care ambulatory clinic.
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Tulsa World
"Architects Doctor Up Buildings' Looks" - 4.19.96
Two Tulsa architects are spicing up the look of the area's medical community.
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Modern Healthcare Magazine
"1995/1996 Design Awards - Citations" - 1995/1996
Southwest Health CenterJenks, Okla.Type of facility: ambulatory-care clinicClient: Prudential Healthcare/Medical Care Associates of Tulsa, Okla.Project architect: Selser Schaefer Architects, TulsaConstruction manager: Cowen...
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Tulsa World
"Architectural Firms Honored" - 8.20.95
Four Tulsa architectural firms were honored by AIA Oklahoma, a state component of the American Institute of Architects, during the 1995 Awards of Excellence Program.
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