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Location Scottsdale Baseball Stadium Drinkwater Blvd. & Osborn Rd., NE corner
Description Completed: 1993 Media: Photographs of historical baseball objects taken at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Pitcher's Mound Description Completed: 1997 Media: bronze and concrete; mound measures: 10" H x 1/5" W x 50' Pitchers Mound and Arcade Frieze by Craig Smith and Dan Collins
Arcade Frieze Description Completed: 1997 Media: Site-integrated artwork including motif pediments, imbedded plaster baseball plates and photographs Dri-vit and concrete The nine items in the arcade frieze design (shown below) represent the nine innings in a baseball game. The first seven items are a baseball, two halves of a baseball, three strikes, a baseball diamond, a homeplate, a baseball field and the stitching of a baseball. The ninth item represents the nine playerson the field. Artist Dan Collins explained that the eighth item is something that baseball fans will have to figure out for themselves! Artists Craig Smith and Dan
Collins were coupled as members of a design team with architect HOK (Hellmuth,
Obata, and Kassabaum, Inc.) to create art for the multi-use stadium facility.
An exciting example of artistic architecture is the Homeplates project
for the Scottsdale Baseball Stadium. Red brickwork with green and red
painted metalwork compo
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Photographs:
The Ritual of the Game by Craig Smith
se the main building in the traditional stadium
style. Also included are many smaller decorative elements, such as dri-vit
concrete baseball symbols creating abstracted designs, and framed prints
of baseball memorabilia decorating the walkways in order to give the viewer
a feeling of the old-fashioned stadium environment.