The perforated aluminum "skin" that wraps around the Tampa Museum of Art was provided by the McNichols Company, a Tampa=based global manufacturer of perforated metal, expanded metal, wire mesh and other decorative metals, as well as a full line of grating and flooring products. See the sights and hear the sounds inside the McNichols Company as workers create such designer metals for use by architects and builders.
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.
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.
A group of young Tampa architects have created "Connecting Tampa," a report that focuses on improving the neighborhood planning process to reshape public spaces, reconnecting neighborhoods to downtown and creating a sense of place.
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