Arizona Architecture from the Archives

For his design of the offices of the daily newspaper in Scottsdale, Alfred Newman Beadle employed a modular grid design very similar to the IBEW Administration Complex in Phoenix.

The design of the Twelfth Street Office Building incorporated a semi-subterranean courtyard to provide a shady retreat from the desert heat. Diagonal windows on this two-story office building were inspired by the anchoring power guylines along 12th Street in central Phoenix.

The design for this building is a rectangular mass of copper, concrete, glass, and steel organized into five levels. The north façade of glass is shaded by vertically stretched tensile fabric, shielding the interior from the sun.

William P. Bruder designed several residences that used solar energy. One was the Kovach Residence, located in the Yavapai County, Arizona community of Spring Valley. The residence was built in 1976.

Located on a five-acre desert site in New River, the Murray Residence and its architect won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects,  Arizona Chapter and Phoenix Home and Garden in 1991.

Harold Housley
Archivist, Design and the Arts Special Collections

Harold.Housley@asu.edu 
(480) 965-6370