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1980s
Rivergate Tower, Tampa (1988)
Rudely referred to as the “BeerCan Building,” Rivergate Tower is perhaps our area’s most sophisticated structure. Anchoring Tampa downtown’s 100% corner, Kennedy Boulevard and Ashley Drive, this 450-foot-tall limestone cylinder linked to a perfect cube shouts design perfection. Architect Harry Wolf teamed up with Hugh McColl when Bank of America was at its apogee of ambition to create the last great banking hall in America. Wolf used as his inspiration the famed Fibonacci sequence found in nature (1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5 etc.) so that the proportions of the floors and openings in the cylinder feel right. The cube, now home to (among other things) the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, is our area’s grandest, most elegantly indulgent use of space to elicit an emotional response. Kiley Garden, created by internationally acclaimed landscape architect Dan Kiley, was designed to complement the purity of cube and cylinder with its Persian garden of gridded trees and waterways, but now it is sadly barren.
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