Phoenix from Chase Tower

Azndragon837 · #1 Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 6:49 AM**

Last month I trekked over to the state's tallest building, Chase Tower (483 feet, 40 stories),
and went up to the 25th floor break room for some aerial shots of the Valley. Here are the results:

Downtown Phoenix looking east (Sheraton, Arizona Center, Arizona Republic,
and the Herberger Theater).

The Sheraton Hotel, APS (Arizona Center) Tower, the distant skyline of
east Phoenix, and the distant skyline of Downtown Scottsdale (AmTrust Bank Tower & the Scottsdale Waterfront).

One Central Park East, ASU Downtown Phoenix, Alta Phoenix & the Sheraton Hotel.

One Central Park East under construction

The Biltmore mid-rise skyline

Sky Harbor Airport and Tempe (A Mountain & Centerpoint Condominiums)

Looking east down Van Buren Street towards: Interstate 10, Phoenix Gateway
Center, Papago Buttes, and the Superstition Mountains.

Alta Phoenix & the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus

The Sheraton. Ugly.

I then went down to a larger break room on the 12th floor, this time with a
view of the southern part of Downtown Phoenix:

Freeport-McMoRan Tower (Phelps Dodge), Wyndham Hotel, Hotel Monroe,
Renaissance Square & Well Fargo Tower.

Hotel Monroe (construction has stalled because of lack of funds from bankrupt Mortgages Ltd)

The Hyatt, Bank of America Tower & The Summit

Map of the 12th Floor

Pretty painting

-Andrew

HooverDam · #2 Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 7:46 AM**

Neat shots, do you know if they have any publicly accessible rooms closer to the top? I figure I ought to look out a window of the states tallest building sometime in my life.

shakman · #3 Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 9:23 AM**

Who the ..... was the architect of the Sheraton? (Looks like a prison from the outside.)

Thanks for sharing the pics.

Azndragon837 · #4 Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 9:44 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by shakman

Who the ..... was the architect of the Sheraton? (Looks like a prison from the outside.)

Thanks for sharing the pics.

The architect was Arquitectonica of Miami. If you look at their other projects, they are pretty awesome. This Sheraton is a piece of crap, and the parapet doesn't even go all the way to the top to cover the mechanical units. Now that's stupid. For a hotel costing $350 million to build, they sure avoided any resemblance of an expensive hotel on the outside. The interior is nice, and even parts of the street level on 3rd Street.

-Andrew

NIXPHX77 · #5 Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 7:52 PM**

really nice shots! thanks andrew.

plinko · #6 Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 8:09 PM**

These are great...and on a clear day. You went up to a 'break room'? Didn't you have to check in with security on the way in or anything or did you have other business in the building?

Azndragon837 · #7 Posted **Feb 23, 2009, 12:35 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by plinko

These are great...and on a clear day. You went up to a 'break room'? Didn't you have to check in with security on the way in or anything or did you have other business in the building?

I checked in with security, and I went ahead.

yerfdog · #8 Posted **Feb 23, 2009, 10:27 PM**

Really nice shots.

pbenjamin · #9 Posted **Feb 23, 2009, 11:09 PM**

There used to be a restaurant on the top floor, I think it was called the Golden Eagle, that was open to the public. We ate there in 1977 or thereabouts. Long since closed.

NIXPHX77 · #10 Posted **Feb 24, 2009, 7:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by pbenjamin

There used to be a restaurant on the top floor, I think it was called the Golden Eagle, that was open to the public. We ate there in 1977 or thereabouts. Long since closed.

i remember that, but never ate there. Didn't that later become a private or semi-private facility called the
Arizona Club (like the University Club on Monte Vista east of Central)?
i wonder if it still operates as the AZ Club?