Shriners Hospitals for Children--Tampa, 12502 USF Pine Drive, Tampa, Florida, Entrance

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

Preview

Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

Opened in 1985, this Shriners Hospital is located on the University of South Florida campus. The low, emphatically horizontal building meanders in a complex pattern of curves and angles, block-like formations and canopies, on the slight incline of its site. Texture, colors, and shapes give it abundant variety, while from a distance the atria's skylights form prismatic highlights. Throughout the interior, exposed concrete columns continue a pattern started under the large canopy over the entrance, with glass brick in concrete squares. Glass brick is also found in the auditorium, where it flanks a ramp. The finest space is the two-story play area and all-purpose room, which moves outside under the curved canopy of the terrace and further to the playground. This is the entrance.

Keywords

Hospitals, University of South Florida, Shriners Hospital for Children - Tampa

Extent

1 color slide

Geographic Location

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)

Physical Collection

Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Architectural Slides

Box

1

Media Type

Color slides

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Description supplied by Sape A. Zylstra.

Identifier

Z03-B048

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "Shriners Hospitals for Children--Tampa, 12502 USF Pine Drive, Tampa, Florida, Entrance" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 128.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/128