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SPA Board approved the new project on May 11, 2004
SPA Board approved Project Artist amd Preliminary Concept on August 9, 2005
Final design and Fabrication ongoing
Installation anticipated May 2009
The District One municipal complex is an 80,000 sq/ft facility to be located
at the southeast corner of McKellips and Miller Roads, a residential area
on the border of Scottsdale and Tempe. The primary purposes of the facility
are to provide evidence storage, to house forensics labs and to serve
as a police station. Public access is limited to the reception area, where
people may fill out reports, speak with a detective or to pick up personal
items. The public art will be sited at the 8,000
sq/ft public plazin front of the facility.
Dennis Oppenheim's Garden of Evidence is a sculpture distributed throughout the entry plaza and integrated within the landscape of the Municipal Complex. Six architectural scale cactus forms constructed in the aluminum are placed within shadow forms which echo the vertical shapes on the ground plane. The forensic lab, a part of the complex, provides the imagery within the sculpture and for other landscape elements. Forms of evidence analyzed inside the building will be fused on the landscape and security walls of the complex. The imagery presents the tools of investigation, pieces of thematic puzzle.
To view images
Jana Weldon
janaw@sccarts.org
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