Architecture
From the downtown Tampa skyline's dozen or so ultramodern 30-story+ high-rise office and residential buildings to the historic courthouses and Victorian homes anchoring places like Bartow, Brooksville and Dade City, the region's architectural choices demonstrate a broad array of tastes for new and old.
Architecture Features
By Chris Kuhn
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Finding your peeps is never easy in a big place, especially when you're fresh out of college, working in your first or second job and spending much of your day just getting to where you're going on time. With that in mind,
83 Degrees is launching a new series of stories designed to document a day in the life of successful young professionals in the Tampa Bay region. This first
24Hours piece was produced in conjunction with
Next American City, a national magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders.
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By Brad Stager
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The Urban Charrette, a nonprofit organization created by a small but highly energized group of visionary people, aims to help transform Downtown Tampa into a place to call home for transplants as well as natives while attracting talented new residents. The founders bring a mix of architectural, design, artistic, political and progressive thinking credentials to the task.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
USF graduate students captured two international design awards for proposals to reclaim and revitalize neighborhoods bordering downtown Tampa that have long thirsted for the creativity, new energy and strategic investments that will be required to make such dynamic dreams become reality.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
An $800,000 project at Lowry Park Zoo, funded by TECO and a grant from the Florida High Tech Corridor,
gives USF researchers and Tampa Electric a chance to learn more about the
technical, economic and environmental impacts of using smart grid
technologies to connect consumer solar array systems to the regional
electrical grid.
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By Janan Talafer
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The Heights project is transforming a 48-acre industrial site on the southern most tip of Tampa Heights into a pedestrian-friendly downtown neighborhood with some 2,000 mixed-income residential lofts and condos, and several hundred thousand square feet of shops, restaurants, hotels and offices along the Hillsborough River. Plans also call for a marina with 100 boat slips.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
St. Petersburg Architect Jason Jensen aims to create spaces that are architecturally distinct. The 32-year-old wants his buildings to produce unique experiences for the people who use and visit them.
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By B.C. Manion
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Former hotels, churches and factories converted into new condos and loft apartments represent some of the coolest digs in town both in Tampa and in St. Petersburg. Some were built for industrial, commercial or religious purposes. Some were in terrible shape. The Sunday school even had a tree growing in it. Now, they are people's homes.read on…