Stories
From the desk of Nora Burba Trulsson
Not Your Run of the Mill
For generations, Hayden Flour Mill has been a Tempe landmark. Located at the upper end of Mill Avenue, it’s an industrial complex once known for milling Arizona Rose and other flours, as well as for its iconic grain elevator and silos that rise next to the rocky Tempe Butte.
Always Iconic: Claudia Kappl Joy, CLD, IALD
Ask lighting designer Claudia Kappl Joy to work on a project and you won’t get a standard illumination plan, with general and decorative lighting, plus a lot of fixtures everywhere.
Archival Content
For architecture scholars and enthusiasts, an unprepossessing storefront in downtown Chandler now houses a treasure trove of organic architecture drawings, models, photographs, correspondence and ephemera.
Midcentury Memories
Aaron Stouffer, 34, wasn’t around when CineCapri premiered “Star Wars,” when Helsing’s Coffee offered up cheeseburgers within its Googie-style building at Uptown Plaza or when Celebrity Theatre featured cutting-edge rock bands rather than legacy acts.
Palm Springs Modernism Week In February
In late winter, design professionals and architecture aficionados migrate to Palm Springs not necessarily to catch sun, pool time and golf, but to steep themselves in a treasure trove of midcentury modernism.
Arizona Biltmore History
Constructed in grand form and following the celebrated vision of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, has been drawing influential, inspiring guests to its desert splendor since 1929.
Always Iconic - Kitchell & Perez
It’s early Friday afternoon at Rise Uptown Hotel (riseuptownhotel.com) in Phoenix, and the pool is already full of weekend revelers. The adjacent patio restaurant, Lylo Swim Club, is dishing out Spam musubi, huli huli chicken bowls and icy rum drinks.
IMAGINATION AND INNOVATION
At the corner of Higley and Ray roads in Gilbert, you can dart into a convenience store for Twinkies, a lottery ticket, and a cold one to go. But while you’re there, you might also get a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers, a bag of organic kale chips, a cold kombucha, and some European chocolates.
Still Stylish After All These Years
When hoteliers Robert and Evelyn Foehl engaged the services of Architect Edward L Varney, Jr. and contractor Kitchell-Phillips to design and build a hotel at the corner of 68th Street and Indian School Road in Scottsdale during the 1950s.
Always Iconic - Jaimee Rose
Phoenix interior designer Jaimee Rose says she’s never been busier. There’s a spec home she did, which sold before it was even complete (a collab with architect CP Drewett), the renovation of a 1920s hacienda in Tucson, and the new home she’s doing for herself and her husband, in Arcadia Lite.