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Title	NCNB National Bank Headquarters
Alternate Title	Bank of America, Nations Bank Plaza, Kiley Gardens
View	Banking hall, general view looking up and north
Notes	banking, leisure
Work Type	bank tower office tower banking hall garden plaza
Style/Period	Modern Scarpaesque
Creator Name	Wolf, Harry
Contributors to Project	landscape architect Dan Kiley
Climate Type	tropical
Country	United States
City	Tampa
State/Province	Florida
Alternate Place Names	Nations Bank Plaza, Riley Gardens
Dates	1988
Century	20th century
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision Inc.
Subject Information	In the 1980's architect Harry Wolf and landscape architect Dan Kiley worked together to transform a riverside lot in downtown Tampa into a corporate headquarters with a garden open to the public. On the site, Mr. Wolf designed a thirty-three story tower and two six-story cubic bank pavilions. He invited Mr. Kiley to collaborate with him on a garden that was based on the mathematical sequence of the buildings' fenestrations - specifically, the Fibonacci sequence. Just as this sequence had been used by Mr. Wolf to determine the tower radius, floor heights, dimension and the frequency of window openings, Mr. Kiley used these proportions to determine the dimension and patterning of the walkways and grass panels that comprised the grid pattern of the plaza. This synthesis of integrating building and garden -- of translating a mathematical sequence into the rationale for the placement of designed elements -- has created a powerful and cohesive design of historical significance. Source: http://www.tclf.org/landslide/kiley_tampa/index.htm *** In 1988, landscape architect Dan Kiley and architect Harry Wolf, FAIA, completed what many consider to be one of the most important and complete modernist collaborations between an architect and a landscape architect. When it was first completed, the Nations Bank Plaza in Tampa, Florida, was a masterful project that incorporated complex logarithmic patterns, an early example of a green roof, stunning water features, and excellent pieces of modernist architecture. The project stood as an example of what architects and landscape architects can accomplish when working in a truly collaborative fashion...The original site of the Nations Bank Plaza, according to The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), consisted of a 33-story cylindrical office tower, two 6-story pavilion cubes, and a 4.5-acre plaza with a tartan grid pattern that echoed the tower and pavilion patterns. The plaza, now known as Kiley Gardens, stands over a 2-story garage, making it “a green roof long before that was a term,” says Sue Thompson, ASLA, of Friends of Kiley Gardens. The garden is divided into parallel rectangular grass squares lined by sabal palmettos and bisected by a 13-foot pathway. Six hundred crape myrtles are interspersed throughout the plaza. http://www.asla.org/land/030606/kiley.html
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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