Doesn't roll off the tongue. So why build it at all? Couldn't the highway just bisect the city without the elaborate underpass?
That's where the story becomes more interesting. When the highway was first discussed in the s, Phoenix was a fraction of its current size at about , people, but growing. The need for connecting the East and West Valley was apparent as was the uninterrupted continuation of the interstate highway.
Plans for a raised highway through downtown, one that wouldn't displace current roads or utilities, was struck down by voters in When plans fell through for the original blueprints, Grady kindly asked his pal to modify and build an auditorium on campus.
Construction started in and it took 25 months to build. Phoenix This Phoenix spot might just be the best place to check out on a hot day. Thanks to carefully placed water features, it's about 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the city. Phoenix The secret room used to be a speakeasy where high-society partygoers could drink their hooch during the days of Prohibition. It might not be serving hooch anymore, but you can still order a cocktail.
Tempe Before the barrel brewhouse took over the space in , it was many things. The building, constructed in , was erected before Arizona was even a state. Phoenix The abandoned Downtown Phoenix building sitting on Buchanan St within the warehouse district was rumored to be a secret fraternity meeting place. You wouldn't know it from the outside, but the main floor of the museum is underground.
Inspired by desert architecture such as the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, Predock set a lofty goal: to create an oasis of art. After the visitor descends several sloping levels of steps, he or she passes into a cavernous antechamber where fountains cool and humidify the air and invite him or her to discover the secrets within.
The galleries of the museum are arranged in three levels, and the space is full of hidden rooms. Predock intended for the space to be mysterious and for the layout to be a little tricky to navigate; this way, the experience of the museum is truly a process of discovery. We can tell you firsthand that it worked. We've lost track of the number of times we've gotten lost in this museum. Bonus hidden treasure: the tucked-away Jules Heller Print Study Room, home of the museum's encyclopedic collection of prints, including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Whistler.
To Phoenix. This place is hardly the fashion capital of anybody's world — here we glue crap to T-shirts and call it haute couture. Ah, but we've got Dennita Sewell, who has curated the Phoenix Art Museum's fashion collection since And that's how scruffy Phoenix came to have one of the year's sleekest fashion-based art exhibits, lauded everywhere from Elle to the New York Times.
Born and raised on a farm in Missouri, Sewell developed a passion for clothing early on. Both her mother and grandmother were expert seamstresses, and she majored in textile management at the University of Missouri. And then she came to Phoenix, whose namesake art museum has a 5,item fashion collection — one of the best in the country, thanks to donations over the years from rich and famous vacationers. Talk your way into a tour of the museum's underground, and you'll see a original Yves Saint Laurent Le Smoking suit, a handmade footman's livery circa s , and flashy platform boots formerly belonging to the band Steppenwolf.
Items are chosen for "how they're important for telling the fashion story of the era," Sewell says. The vault is temperature- and humidity-controlled — and under tight security. No mothballs or chemicals are used to preserve the materials. Twentieth-century items are arranged alphabetically by designer, and everything before that is stored in chronological order. Accessories are grouped by type. Inside the boxes, clothes are wrapped and stuffed with tissue paper to protect their form and thwart dust.
Shoes are carefully arranged on shelves. Clothing made of heavy textiles rests on hangers in closets. Repairs and cleaning are kept to a minimum and only happen after a consultation with a local conservator in order to keep the items as true as possible to their original forms.
Turns out modern textiles are the hardest to keep. While their 18th- and 19th-century predecessors were made of pure, natural fibers that tend to be highly durable, the plastics and chemicals introduced in the 20th century have proved to be a challenge to preserve.
Some items, like vinyl shoes, are essentially self-destructing — becoming brittle and losing their color over time. Times are tough for the fashion industry; the mass production of clothing has made couture less and less accessible to regular people and has put a strain on designers competing for an ever-limited clientele.
Nevertheless, Sewell remains optimistic about the perseverance of the industry. To see more photos of the Phoenix Art Museum's fashion collection, visit www. Warren H. Stewart Sr. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox.
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