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The process that led to construction of the auditorium began in 1957 when incumbent university President Grady Gammage desired a unique facility for the ASU campus. [8] In 1956, a collapsed roof rendered the school's combination auditorium/gymnasium unusable. [9] [10] Gammage recruited his friend Frank Lloyd Wright to design the
Desert Financial Arena [3] (formerly ASU Activity Center and Wells Fargo Arena) is a 14,198-seat [4] multi-purpose arena located at 600 E Veterans Way in Tempe, Arizona, United States, in the Phoenix metropolitan area. It sits immediately east of Mountain America Stadium on the northern edge of the Tempe campus of Arizona State University (ASU).
[5] [6] ASU has an extensive public art collection, considered one of the ten best among university public art collections in the United States. [7] Against the northwest edge of campus is the Mill Avenue district (part of downtown Tempe) which has a college atmosphere that attracts many students to its restaurants and bars. ASU's Tempe Campus ...
ASU's Gammage Auditorium, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1933, Grady Gammage, then president of Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff, became president of Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe, beginning a tenure that would last for nearly 28 years, second only to Swetman's 30 years at the college's helm. Like President Porter Eric ...
Mountain America Stadium [8] is an outdoor college football stadium in Tempe, Arizona, located on the campus of Arizona State University (ASU). It is the home of the Arizona State Sun Devils football team of the Big 12 Conference. The stadium opened in 1958. The stadium's seating capacity as of 2018 is 53,599, reduced from a peak of 74,865 in 1989.
The Tempe Transportation Center facilities are a combination of a light rail station, bus transfer stations and a mixed use building all in the shadow of A Mountain. The main building is composed of three stories with retail space, a transit information center and Arizona's first Bike Station all located on the first floor.
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Upon Kerr's death on December 10, 1977, [3] Arizona State University's College of Fine Arts (now the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) received the property, and in 1981, management of the center passed from the College of Fine Arts to Gammage Memorial Auditorium. The transfer also involved further renovations to the site, including ...