Based on the ideas of Interlacing and Transformation, the Phoenix Performing Arts Center and School adapts and weaves itself into Phoenix to create a more vibrant city, and presents itself as an icon. It weaves itself into the desert, defying most conventions of urban desert architecture and producing a sustainable and comfortable building, demonstrating the understanding that must occur to live with and in the desert. Together with the Central Library and the Arts Museum, the Performing Arts Center will spur the weaving of the artistic and educational fabric of Phoenix that has begun.