In 1982, the City of Clearwater, Florida, sponsored a design competition for the design of a band shell to act as a spearhead for the revitalization of the Downtown area.  In order to link the urban park site with civic buildings to the east and the bay immediately to the west, the design creates a visual point of reference-beautiful, sculptural, and distinctive- to be viewed from land or water. The design was also to be “un-obstructive and sensitive to its context.” The site called for a strong image. In plan, the form complements the band shell function by assuming the shape of a “speaker.”  In elevation, the evocative triangle shape reminds some of “old Florida houses,” others of a “hovering spacecraft,” while boaters in the bay infer the silhouette of a giant “sailboat.”