Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida, Traffic Tower and Hotel

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

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Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

Opened in 1971, the airport demonstrates "form follows function" through movement expressed in the emphatic horizontality and continually curving lines. The free-standing traffic tower (a nationally-used design by I.M. Pei) stands like an exclamation mark and plays against the next highest point, the circular restaurant atop the hotel. The patterns of circulation (ramps, shuttles, elevators, and escalators) and functionally-distinguished floors work excellently. This is a view of the traffic tower, with airport hotel in background.

Keywords

Airports, Tampa International Airport, Hotels, Air traffic control towers, I.M. Pei (1917-2019)

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-B074

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida, Traffic Tower and Hotel" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 154.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/154