Phoenix Library at Summer Solstice

Phoenix Library at Summer Solstice
Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

At about 12:30 (solar noon on this particular day), people at the Burton Barr Central Library in downtown Phoenix watched as the sunshine flooded the west wall and lit up the tops of the columns like ice blue “flames” atop “candles.” It was not what I would consider a spectacular event, but a quiet one in which a people gathered in a building and witnessed their and the building’s place in the universe… or at least that’s what the architect, Will Bruder, brainwashed me into thinking.