Rivergate Tower, 400 North Ashley Drive, Tampa, Florida, USA / Built: 1988 / Architects: Wolf Associates Architects & Odell & Associates / Floors: 32 / Height: 454.01 ft / Architectural Style: Modernism / Building Usage: Commercial Office

The Rivergate Tower is a 454 ft tall skyscraper in downtown Tampa, Florida with 31 floors. It is also known as the Sykes building and commonly referred to as the Beer Can Building.

Building Facts:

The architects of this skyscraper were recognized with an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1993.

The building is one of the tallest limestone structures in the world.

At sunset, the building's limestone facade glows yellow-orange over the Tampa skyline.

The building's cylindrical design was intended to look like a lighthouse on the Tampa skyline.

The building's only exterior lighting are two skyward facing lights, which further the building's lighthouse symbolism.

Concentric circles located in the building's lobby mark distances of time and space.

Despite the building's apparent cylindrical design, a linear grid wraps around the building's facade.

The building's measurements and numerical seaquences are based on the Fibonacci series (where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers).

The building's 1,880 windows and 13 feet from floor to floor resemble the building's mathematical basis on the Fibonacci series.

The building was built as the NCNB state headquarters, which was formerly located in the city of Miami.

At the base of the tower are two 6-story cubes where bank tellers used to work.

The building's top five floors have thin rose-colored glass notches that offer views over the city.

The building has floor to ceiling windows with a thick concrete band horizontally separating them, which gives the appearance of two smaller windows.

The building has a 26-foot high entrance way that faces the park across.

Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/128611/rivergate-tower-tampa-fl...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivergate_Tower

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Taken on: November 27, 2020

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Wolf Associates Architects & Odell & Associates

Floors: 32

Height: 454.01 ft

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