[loftlovr]

Palm Lane Lofts by Baldinder Studio in Midtown Phoenix
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Executive Towers Remodels Midtown Phoenix
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Culinary Festival Scottsdale
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Civic Center Old Town Scottsdale
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Architekton Office Tempe
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Old Town Scottsdale Goodies
marriot hotel
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granada condominiums
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Third Avenue Lofts
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Waterfront Towers (Tuscan Heaven)
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New W hotel gaining steam
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Streetscape
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Ten Eyck Studio Midtown Phoenix
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Postino Arcadia
(yummies)
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The Vale Tempe
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This one happens to be on the market (shameless plug)
http://www.phxloftnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1609
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Midtown/ Downtown Phoenix Goodies
The Olympus Condominiums
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Pane Bianco
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New Will Bruder Office
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New Red Modern furniture rennovation (Of the famed Al Beadle building)
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Gold Square apartments
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Cibo pizzeria
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Camelview Village Old Town Scottsdale, Optima's 705 unit futuristic city within a city
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Downtown Tempe Goodies
Hayden Ferry Silo Mill Tempe (rennovation to commence in '09)
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Studios 5c
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Valley Ho Mid Century paradise, Old Town Scottsdale
$72 million dollar rennovation. Promise you'll stay here if you ever visit!
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Portland Place Condominiums Downtown Phoenix DFD CornoyerHedrick new construction
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Modern Phoenix home tour pics (Marlen Grove Ralph Haver subdivision)
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Kierland Commons North Scottsdale, new urbanism at it's finest
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Galleries at Turney Phoenix Biltmore Area
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Biltmore Towers Phoenix Biltmore Area
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The Bon Vie Mid Century remodel by Van Guard Group in Old Town
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Historic rennovated Fontenelle House Lofts Downtown Phoenix
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:notacrook:

[NorthScottsdale]

Modern Phoenix home tour pics (Marlen Grove Ralph Haver subdivision)

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OMG!! i painted this house! this is on like 11th st north of camelback right? or somewhere around there. wow. i remember first we painted the main house purple but they changed their minds so we had to come back to repaint it..its an awesome house!
great photos loftlvr. someone should drive around the arcadia neighborhood and snap some pics of that. its gorgeous around there.

[atl2phx]

SWEET pics! you event caught my local neighborhood hangout at postino. i have to say i think those optima condo's are my favorite in phoenix, maybe the US.

[ChrisLA]

Wow, I see why people love Arizona, the lofts, and the beautiful landscape is out of this world.

[PHX602]

Awesome job. This must have taken a while to put together.

[atlantaguy]

Absolutely beautiful! You really captured the beauty and the great architecture of the Valley that makes the area so unique.

Question for locals - is the cool little open-air jazz club still on the mall in Scottsdale?

[jard]

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I like the looks of this place.

[Evergrey]

wow... Phoenix has some chic furniture and flat screen TVs...

[Jularc]

Coll Photos! Interesting place...

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[soleri]

Great thread. I wish Phoenix had more feeling for its midcentury and modernist past. These are great examples, but it's often a matter of driving several miles from one place to another to find them. The good news is that there's a very active subculture here celebrating modernism. The bad news is that it is a subculture.

[PHX31]

NICE pics... you always capture some of the most unique areas of phoenix. I'm not that up on "mid-century modern" stuff, but it is growing on me. Really, that was a serious thread. Nice work.

(note to self, go to scottsdale culinary festival next year)

[williamphilapa]

:yes:
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smokin'

[EastSideHBG]

:yes:
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smokin'
OH YEAH! :boogy:

Phoenix is looking great these days, and I really need to get back out there to check on the progress...

[Buckeye Native 001]

Very cool stuff going on in The Valley :tup:

[Great_Hizzy]

Good stuff. I like the MCM home as well.

[MayDay]

I'm hoping to check out some of these (and other) sights when I'm in Scottsdale at the end of May.

[oliveurban]

Wonderful.

[Top Of The Park]

...and cleavage make any pic post special

[Don B.]

Impressive thread. I'm not too much a fan of the mid-century "modern" stuff myself but I can see why people enjoy it. This puts a different spin on Phoenix that most will never see.

--don

[-GR2NY-]

Really great photo shoot, I'm glad I stopped in, very well put together. How much are some of those places going for?

[Don B.]

^ Generally speaking? Way too much. To give you an example:

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0502biz-house0502.html

'Retro cool' house for sale - Midcentury modern design reflects style of noted Phoenix architect

Glen Creno
The Arizona Republic
May. 2, 2007 12:00 AM

A modernistic east Phoenix house first owned by the late political heavyweight Burton Barr is for sale for $1.195 million.

The nearly 2,500-square-foot house was commissioned by Barr, designed by noted architect Al Beadle and built in 1955. The low-slung place has big windows, custom cabinets and Beadle's trademark carport. The home's architectural details are intact, and Beadle's original drawings, showing the house's asymmetrical, winged shape, come with the house.

"It's totally original," said Roger Williams, the Russ Lyon agent listing the house. "It still has the original Formica, all the wood, all the cabinetry."

Barr was well known in Arizona politics. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives for 22 years. For 20 of those years, he was the Republican majority leader and acknowledged master of steering legislation and legislators. He lost the 1986 GOP gubernatorial primary to Evan Mecham, who was elected and then later impeached. Barr died in 1997. His name is memorialized on the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix.

The house is east of Arizona 51 and north of Bethany Home Road in Phoenix. Williams said he thinks Barr lived in the house into the late 1960s, maybe into the early '70s.

The current owners, Stephen and Amy O'Meara, are looking for a place that will accommodate a larger studio. Stephen is a sculptor and silversmith. Amy declined to say what her husband paid for the house but said he bought it about 10 years ago "when real estate was crashing in Arizona."

The house has been listed for about a month. There have been some lookers but no offers. The couple think the house will sell. Amy said that about six times a year someone leaves a business card on their front door telling them to get in touch if they decide to sell.

"This is a really interesting time in history," Amy said. "There's a revival of 1950s retro cool going on. People really are appreciating it more than they did 10 to 20 years ago."

I had Alex pull the listing. It is nearly $500 per square foot (California prices for Arizona real estate), although the property taxes are only $2,237 per year. No garage and dated appliances - I think the price is just a tad high.

You can see some pics here:

http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/slideshowx.php?ssid=2476&slide_nbr=1&HTTP_REFERER=http://www.azcentral.com/

A lot of the condos that Loftlvr showed in this thread typically run about $400,000 and up for small space, like 800 square feet. Best show up with a phat wallet if you want in any of them. This is not "mid-pricing" by any stretch of the imagination, but when shacks in the ghetto and really cheap suburban tract homes are $200,000 and up, housing affordability has started to become a real problem here, especially since wages have not kept pace.

--don

[whatsthepoint13]

there's lots of neat homes in the phoenix area!

[dktshb]

I like the tribute to the mid-century modern and I am happy to see Phoenix embracing modernism again. Great photos!

[denveraztec]

OMG! Not sure how I missed this thread the first time around, maybe because I was in Phoenix working? Fantastic thread and love all the inside shots! Great job!

[Atlantan26]

ah, i love sunbelt cities! ;)

[LAsam]

Happy one year anniversary "Greater Phoneix random photos" thread!