Eastwood Business Commons, 6604 Harney Road, Tampa, Florida, Entrance to Courtyard

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

Preview

Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

This office park, opened in 1986, has one-story offices arranged in a stepped pattern around a courtyard. Corners are glazed in a cut-away zigzag pattern, the upper wall portion being cantilevered. The entrance to the courtyard is marked by an open walk between columns on which a 45-degree saddle roof is pitched in a thin metal, kite-like framework. In some of the interiors, curved glass-brick walls flank the entrance to the reception desk. The walls are of 6" reinforced concrete, which is cast horizontally on the previously poured floor and then erected. This saves on shuttering (formwork), but requires heavier rebars (reinforcing rods) because of the tensile forces exerted by its own weight when the wall is raised. This is the entrance to the courtyard.

Keywords

Business parks

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-B060

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "Eastwood Business Commons, 6604 Harney Road, Tampa, Florida, Entrance to Courtyard" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 140.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/140