High Desert Landscape

The high Sonoran Desert has a unique beauty all it's own. Careful landscaping and architectural design can bring people into the desert without destroying it's appeal. In some cases, sensitive design can even enhance the experience - as at this golf course clubhouse.

This is the Cochise/Geronimo clubhouse at the Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. I've had the pleasure of visiting this spectacular high desert landscape several times over the past few years, working with a client on a new home project there.

I'm particularly enamored with how this unique building follows the contours of the surrounding mountains, blending with and adding to the desert scape.

From a distance, the building is nearly "invisible"; and surprisingly, it remains extremely low-key up close.