PHOENIX — One of the more recent additions to the city’s public art is large and a bit difficult to understand. Since being installed in the Civic Space Park in 2009, it has drawn considerable comment, not all of it favorable.
Walk in the Path of Ancient Hohokam at Sears-Kay Ruin
March 29, 2012 By 1 Comment
Just east of Carefree, the Sears-Kay Ruin offers a peek into the lifestyles of ancient Hohokam Indians, ancestors of today’s Pima Indians and the Valley’s first residents. A 1-mile loop trail guides visitors along a series of 40 rooms along a hilltop in four different compounds.
Scottsdale Shopping Center Becomes the Right Place for a Wright Piece
March 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
SCOTTSDALE — The City of Scottsdale is benefiting from an error in judgement by the State of Arizona. In 1957, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a new State Capitol that would have been located in Papago Park, about seven miles east of the existing capitol.
Arizona Falls Serves as Double Duty Waterfall
March 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
PHOENIX — Most waterfalls cascade across mountain faces or plummet into deep gorges, and they’re usually hard to reach. But there’s one in Phoenix that is not only readily accessible, it’s also an energy source.
Giant Arrow Points to Phoenix
March 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
PHOENIX — More than 50 years ago, the Valley of the Sun was a whole lot of desert sprinkled with a few towns, mostly of them small. Phoenix had the only airport and it was also small and, because it was in the middle of some pretty barren landscape, it was sometimes hard to spot from the air.
