David M.

Top Image courtesy Clifton Greyeyes; SMOCA (middle); Roger Tomalty (bottom) Top: Rendering of the Soleri Bridge viewed from the Scottsdale Waterfront towers. Middle: Paolo Soleri has sketched numerous futuristic and innovative bridge designs, but the one in Scottsdale is the first to be constructed. Bottom: Concrete slurry was poured over the reinforced concrete retaining walls on the south plaza to create “drip walls”, a technique developed at Cosanti. The hollow lower pylons have gaps in their cylindrical shape to reveal a 10-ft-high assembly of bronze windbells hanging within. Known as the Goldwater Bells, they were originally cast by Soleri in

Top Image courtesy Clifton Greyeyes; Middle & bottom Photos © Krystek Top: Rendering of the bridge and the south bank’s plaza. Middle: Bridge structure placement took place on June 26. Bottom: CAID Industries fabricated the radiused stainless-steel panels that wrap around to create the outer and inner bridge edges. Paolo Soleri, a renowned 91-year-old architect and urban theorist, finally will see a bridge he designed open on Dec. 11. The $3 million cable-stay bridge provides a pedestrian crossing over the Arizona Canal from the Waterfront District on the north to Old Town on the south, just west of Scottsdale and