Epic Center

The Epic Center is a Modern Style skyscraper designed by Platt, Adams, Braht, Bradley & Associates, and built between 1985 and 1987 in Wichita, KS.

Epic Center is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Garvey Center.

Its precise street address is 301 North Main Street, Wichita, KS. You can also find it on the map here.

The project was originally designed to have a twin tower. However, the second tower was never built due to the fear of oversaturating a relatively small commercial real estate market with too much available space to lease.

Platt, Adams, Braht, Bradley & Associates was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but at the very least we know that there was one other part involved, that was Dondlinger Construction as the Main Contractor.

The Epic Center can be categorized as a Modern Style building.

By their own nature, the Modern and International Styles can still look current, even in contemporary buildings. So that's not to say the Epic Center appeared old or outdated when it was completed, but Platt, Adams, Braht, Bradley & Associates certainly did not take many risks when it came to choosing the design style. This made the building look more "classic" and integrated within the city's architecture.

Both the vertical and horizontal elements of the Epic Center's structure are made out of reinforced concrete.

The facade of the building is load bearing. This means the facade is not only an aesthetic element, but also a key piece in how the building supports itself and transmits the vertical loads all the way down to the foundations.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features light-colored stone panels forming a continuous grid of singular floor-to-ceiling windows.