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Update • Design Development Phase through November 2007 • SPA Board approved artist selection of Brad Goldberg August 2007 • Public Open House February 2007 • Public Meetings with the Artist January 2007 • SPA Board approved new project and CIP Budget September 2006
The project at Pinnacle Peak Road is planned as a four-lane roadway with two travel lanes in each direction. The project parameters are from Miller Road east to Pima Road and will specifically address issues of increased traffic and drainage of the wash areas. The roadway will be design and constructed with improvements in areas including: crosswalks, lighting, turn lanes, culverts, landscaping and pedestrian areas with great attention to the natural environment and mix of residential and commercial areas.
Brad Goldberg, project artist, is responsible for working with the design team to incorporate aesthetic design in an integrated way within the intersection and coordinating design enhancements with the engineering needs of the project. The master plan for the project has completed schematic design phase in August 2007. These design guidelines also present a prototype for the City of Scottsdale to consider in its use of innovative materials that emphasize permeability, recycling, and unobtrusive aesthetic design with natural materials. The goal of the project is to provide the engineering needs while maintaining a minimal impact on natural and residential conditions; creating a beautiful, unique and appropriate roadway for the area.
Brad Goldberg is an artist who sees his work as a fusion between sculpture, the landscape and the built environment. The desire to work with the environment as a whole has necessitated expanding outside the traditional role of a studio sculptor, into an area which might be termed Landscape Sculpture. Ultimately, each new pro
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ject Mr. Goldberg works with generates a unique non-preconceived response encompassing the total aspect of a specific place or circumstance. Brad has worked conceptually as an idea generator and physically as the creator of site-specific sculptures, parks, gardens, interior spaces, landscape installations and furniture. “In time,” he states, “with many experiences layered over one another, I am ho