Tampa, Florida........Alfonso Architects receives the AIA Award of Design Excellence from the Florida chapter of the organization for the Tampa Covenant Church located in Tampa, Florida. This modernist project is a combination of new construction and renovation. The project includes a 25,000 sq. ft. building that provides a sanctuary, administrative offices and classrooms for the congregation of four hundred-fifty. In addition, two existing single level buildings were renovated and the exterior …
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Alfonso Architects Receives Top Awards for Design Excellence
Tampa, FL........ Alfonso Architects has received two design awards from AIA Tampa Bay, a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The 35 person firm, led by President Alberto Alfonso, AIA received the H. Dean Rowe, FAIA Award for the Tampa Covenant Church. This is the top honor awarded from the jury of non-competing, award-winning, out of state architects. Alfonso Architects also received a Merit Award for the Chihuly Collection, in the commercial category. The modernist Tampa …
Alberto Alfonso, AIA & Edward Mayes Exhibit Together at the Tuscan Sun Festival
Tampa, FL........The Tuscan Sun Festival, held from July 30 – August 7, 2011 in Cortona, Italy will include From Things About to Disappear, I Turn Away in Time, a painting and poetry exhibit. The installation, located at Sant'Agostino is a collaboration between architect/painter Alberto Alfonso, AIA and poet/scholar Edward Mayes. Alfonso and Mayes live both in Italy and America and their collaboration inspires conversations and observations about the concepts of time in each country. The …
Alberto Alfonso, AIA Designs the Morean Arts Center: Chihuly Collection
The Chihuly Collection Showcased at the Morean Arts Center Designed by Alberto Alfonso, AIA Tampa, Florida...............The Chihuly Collection located in St. Petersburg, Florida, designed by award-winning architect Alberto Alfonso, AIA, is the first installation of world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly's art in a building specifically designed for that purpose. The exhibition, theater and retail space opened July 10, 2010 and is the result of an intimate collaboration between artist and …
Four Florida Moderns by SAXON HENRY
ICFF Book Signing for Four Florida Moderns Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 3:00 PM Archivia Books at ICFF Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York MIAMI — W.W. Norton & Company has released Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, & Guy W. Peterson. Authored and edited by Saxon Henry, the book includes contributions by Robert McCarter, the late Charles Gwathmey, Richard Meier, Terence Riley & Warren R. Schwartz. "Modern architecture is …