Freeway sound wall ‘fins’ start to take shape

The Arizona Department of Transportation is starting to add these decorative accents to “fins” on sound walls going up along part of the South Mountain Freeway path along Pecos Road. The designs, inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, will be used on other pieces of the freeway in Ahwatukee. / Special to AFN

 

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The Arizona Department of Transportation is touting the addition of fins for the sound walls along parts of the Pecos Road portion of the South Mountain Freeway.

Standing at intervals atop the sound wall between 40th and 48th streets, the custom-designed panels resembling fins are “decorative accents inspired by some of modern architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s early work in Arizona,” ADOT said in a release last week.

Painted a reddish accent color that extends in a saw-toothed pattern down the sound wall, they also appear on retaining walls, abutments and bridge barriers in the area.

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