Tampa Riverwalk skyline
— a glass skyline at the slow end of a river.
Not only on a wall.
Tampa Riverwalk skyline, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The Tampa Riverwalk runs about 2.6 miles along the east bank of the Hillsborough River, from the Tampa Heights bridges down past the convention center. Behind the path the downtown skyline stacks up in glass and pale stone, with the Rivergate Tower cylinder and the bank towers catching the late light. Across the water the silver minarets of the old Plant hotel pin the other shore. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
The Tampa Riverwalk is a continuous waterfront promenade along the east bank of the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa, running about 2.6 miles from Waterworks Park in Tampa Heights south past the Tampa Convention Center. The route was assembled over more than two decades and largely completed by 2016. It links Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Glazer Children's Museum, the Straz Center, the Florida Aquarium, and Amalie Arena into one walkable spine along the river.
The downtown skyline above the Riverwalk is anchored by 100 North Tampa, the city's tallest building at 579 feet, completed in 1992. The white cylindrical Rivergate Tower, finished in 1988 and locally nicknamed the Beer Can building, sits a block back from the river. The Bank of America Plaza, the SunTrust building, and a clutch of newer glass residential towers fill in the rest. Across the river the red brick mass and silver minarets of Plant Hall hold the west bank.
The Riverwalk is open at no charge, every day, around the clock. Walkers and cyclists share most of the route, and the TECO Line Streetcar connects the southern end at the Convention Center to Ybor City. Pirate Water Taxi runs scheduled stops along the path, and Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park is the usual anchor for festivals and the Saturday morning farmers market. The path is best at dusk, when the downtown glass and the silver minarets of Plant Hall both hold the last of the day's light.
