Hillsborough Community College Administration Building, Davis Islands, Tampa, Florida, Detail of Balconies, Sunbreaks, and Stairs

Creator

Sape A. Zylstra

Files

Preview

Creation Date

January 1980

Time Period

circa 1980s-1990s

Abstract

Built in 1960, this previously housed the Gordon Keller School of Nursing. The seven-story block is raised above and cantilevered over a glassed-in podium and faces on the west side, across a landscaped mall with fountain, a one-story building with zigzag roof. The high-rise on stilts and with deep-set windows behind balconies and sunbreaks is Corbusian, but in the manner of the Scandinavian apartment buildings of the 1950s. The arrangement and scale of the contrasting buildings and their mall help in making this an exemplary architectural design. Soon Tampa's tall buildings would no longer have a textured facade, but would give way to tinted glass. This is a detail of the balconies, sunbreaks, and stairs, seen from the east.

Keywords

College buildings, Hillsborough Community College

Extent

1 color slide

Geographic Location

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Davis Islands (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-B004

Recommended Citation

Zylstra, Sape A., "Hillsborough Community College Administration Building, Davis Islands, Tampa, Florida, Detail of Balconies, Sunbreaks, and Stairs" (1980). Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Photographs. Image 84.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/84