Topeka ? The Landon state office building was voted off the island and the Docking building will be prepped for an extreme makeover.

That’s the verdict of officials Monday who say the state’s major office buildings located adjacent to the Capitol have fallen into disrepair

“Both of these buildings are in extremely bad shape,” said Sen. Stephen Morris, the Hugoton Republican who is chairman of the House-Senate Building Construction Committee.

The historic Landon Building at 900 S.W. Jackson St. — once the headquarters for the Santa Fe Railroad — “has outlived its useful life as an office building,” Secretary of Administration Howard Fricke told the committee.

He said the administration would start working on plans to sell the building.

The approximately 50-year-old Docking Building at 915 S.W. Harrison St. is in bad shape, too, Fricke said, but because it houses the Capitol complex power plant the building site cannot be moved. Instead, he recommended stripping the building down to the concrete and rebuilding it.

The building committee gave Fricke permission to analyze proposals and costs to get rid of Landon and rebuild Docking. The committee said it wanted a plan of action to propose to the Legislature by the start of the 2005 session in January.

Fricke said he planned to enlist the help of the corporation overseeing research facility construction at Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State universities. That corporation, he said, has already helped the state save several million dollars in project costs.

Combined, Docking and Landon have nearly 1 million gross square feet of space, and house dozens of agencies.