Pinnacle Peak Road/Pima Road Intersection Brad Goldberg		Print This Page Email This Page

Update

•  Public Meeting open house to meet the artist, December 9, 2009 at Grayhawk Elementary School, 7525 East Grayhawk Drive from 6 – 7:30 p.m.

•  Design Development Phase through January 2009
•  SPA Board approved new project and CIP Budget and artist Brad Goldberg November 2008

•  Design Charrette with design team and artist Brad Goldberg August 22, 2008
•  Public Meeting Presentation June 6, 2007

The intersection of Pinnacle Peak Road and Pima Road is to be designed and constructed as a six-lane parkway cross-section beginning with approximately 1400 feet north of Thompson Peak Parkway, with landscaped median, turn lanes, grade-separated path crossing, bike lanes, sidewalks, curb and gutter, roadway drainage, intelligent transportation system facilities and noise mitigation.  It is part of the Pima Road improvements project undertaken by the City of Scottsdale from Deer Valley Road to Pinnacle Peak Road.  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 project will follow the Pinnacle Peak master plan developed by Brad Goldberg for schematic design in August, 2007. It presents 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 design guidelines and for this project is to provide the engineering needs while maintaining a minimal impact on natural and residential conditions; creating a beautiful, unique and appropriate looking 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 project Mr. Goldberg works with generates a unique non-preconceived response encompassing the total aspect of a specific place or circumstance. “In time,” he states, “with many experiences layered over one another, I am hoping my work will reflect a cultural collage…more in keeping with artistic truths, than passing fashions.” 

Brad’s work at the intersection of Pinnacle Peak and Pima Roads draws on the primary design of headwalls and visually links to the seven culverts the cross Pinnacle Peak Road from Pima Road going west.  The design elements of headwall/bride/railing are the prototypes that offer the design vocabulary for the length of Pinnacle Peak Road.  As the multi-modal underpass and access to the intersection have become the dual focus, the materials, both natural and built, reflect the environs of Pinnacle Peak itself.  The strength of the desert masonry, the washes and the particular zones of vegetation are reflected throughout Goldberg’s design for this intersection.

More on Brad’s work at www.bradjgoldberg.com

Project Manager

Donna Isaac

disaac@sccarts.org