This amazing object is a former Valley National Bank on Broadway in Tucson dating from 1971.

Out of scope for the Phoenix survey, this might be the high point of VNB's project of integrating architecture and sculpture. You have to look hard and long and far afield to find anything else quite like it.

The contracted artist was Phillips Sanderson, who did some other bank-artwork in Phoenix as well as a 40-foot kachina doll, and for whom Walter Bimson served as patron. The sculpture here comes in three parts: the abstract fascia, the tall screen at proper right, and the freestanding object right in front of the ATM. More on Sanderson here.

The architects were Bernard Friedman and Fred Jobusch, local Tucson architects whose other work includes the Canyon del Oro High School and the 1976 Main Library at U of A.

And it was inspiring. A few doors down on Broadway to the west, you'll find this, same general idea, same year, very cool but unforunately much less impressive.