Eastwood Business Commons, 6604 Harney Road, Tampa, Fla., entrance, from southeast

This office park, opened in 1986, has one-story offices arranged in a stepped pattern around a courtyard. Corners are glazed in a cut-away zigzag pattern, the upper wall portion being cantileverd. The entrance to the courtyard is marked by an open walk between columns on which a 45-degree saddle roof is pitched in a thin metal, kite-like framework. In some of the interiors, curved glass-brick walls flank the entrance to the reception desk. The walls are of 6 reinforced concrete, which is cast horizontally on the previously poured floor and then erected. This saves on shuttering (formwork), but requires heavier rebars (reinforcing rods) because of the tensile forces exerted by its own weight when the wall is raised. This is the entrance, viewed from the southeast. Title supplied by cataloger. Description supplied by Sape A. Zylstra.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zylstra/1140/thumbnail.jp