Adult only lap pool / Loews Ventana Canyon Resort / August 2013
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort is owned by Ventana Canyon Partnership, headed by William Estes III.
Tucson developer, William (Bill) Estes, Jr.(1938-2009), built Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson. Estes was the founder of Estes Homes and built some 40,000 homes throughout Tucson and Phoenix. Loews operates the hotel under a management contract with Ventana Canyon Partnership. Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort opened in December 1984 following the opening of the 380 room Loews Paradise Valley (more recently a Wyndham and now DoubleTree) at 5401 N Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Loews Ventana Canyon lies in the Sonoran Desert at the base of the Santa Catalina mountains overlooking the city of Tucson. Architects John C. Hill, Jr. (AIA) and William Kenneth Frizzell (AIA) stated in 1985 - “The major organizing element of our design was the natural environment and we wanted the hotel to look like a part of the landscape.”
Their design task: 400 rooms, no more than two above ground stories due to zoning restrictions, and covering the least amount of area as possible to minimize environmental impact while simultaneously highlighting both the city of Tuscon and desert surrounding. Their firm, Frizzell Hill Moorehouse, won the closed competition by utilizing a basement for administration and ancillary functions, which conserved prime space for rooms.
Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, the design utilizes pleated vertical towers to blend with local cacti as well as a low-rise, earth brown exterior boasting exposed aggregate to reflect indigenous geology. It’s stone architecture blends into the desert mountains.
There are two Tom Fazio-designed golf courses - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort's Mountain course (1987) and Canyon course (1985) - with striking Sonoran Desert backdrops and saguaros. Plenty of wildlife with coveys of quail, red-tailed hawks, bobcats, deer, rabbits, coyotes and roadrunners at an elevation of 3,013 feet.
Architectural Digest called it the “first environmentally-conceived resort in North America.”
Loews Hotels parent company is Loews Corporation which also owns an oil-drilling company, natural-gas pipelines and Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA Financial Corp. CNA Financial Corporation is one of the largest commercial property and casualty insurance organizations in the United States. Loews owned Bulova Watches until 2007. The Tisch brothers gained control of Loew's Theaters in 1960, thus the name but they dropped the apostrophe for their corporate name. Loews Lorillard tobacco division included brand leader Newport cigarettes.
Jonathan Tisch is the chairman of Loews Hotels and co-chairman of Loews Corp. Tisch, 57, is also treasurer of the National Football League’s New York Giants.
Loews Hotels currently owns and/or operates 19 hotels in the U.S. and Canada. Previously Loews operated the Loews Monte Carlo, Loews La Napoule, Loews Le Concorde in Quebec City, Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. and Loews Anatole.
The parents of Preston and Laurence Tisch bought the Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in Lakewood, NJ in 1946. That hotel's success was the springboard for Loews Corp. By 1956, the brothers were in a position to build their first hotel, the Americana in Bal Harbour, Fla., for $17 million in cash.
Adult only lap pool / Loews Ventana Canyon Resort / August 2013
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort is owned by Ventana Canyon Partnership, headed by William Estes III.
Tucson developer, William (Bill) Estes, Jr.(1938-2009), built Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson. Estes was the founder of Estes Homes and built some 40,000 homes throughout Tucson and Phoenix. Loews operates the hotel under a management contract with Ventana Canyon Partnership. Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort opened in December 1984 following the opening of the 380 room Loews Paradise Valley (more recently a Wyndham and now DoubleTree) at 5401 N Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Loews Ventana Canyon lies in the Sonoran Desert at the base of the Santa Catalina mountains overlooking the city of Tucson. Architects John C. Hill, Jr. (AIA) and William Kenneth Frizzell (AIA) stated in 1985 - “The major organizing element of our design was the natural environment and we wanted the hotel to look like a part of the landscape.”
Their design task: 400 rooms, no more than two above ground stories due to zoning restrictions, and covering the least amount of area as possible to minimize environmental impact while simultaneously highlighting both the city of Tuscon and desert surrounding. Their firm, Frizzell Hill Moorehouse, won the closed competition by utilizing a basement for administration and ancillary functions, which conserved prime space for rooms.
Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, the design utilizes pleated vertical towers to blend with local cacti as well as a low-rise, earth brown exterior boasting exposed aggregate to reflect indigenous geology. It’s stone architecture blends into the desert mountains.
There are two Tom Fazio-designed golf courses - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort's Mountain course (1987) and Canyon course (1985) - with striking Sonoran Desert backdrops and saguaros. Plenty of wildlife with coveys of quail, red-tailed hawks, bobcats, deer, rabbits, coyotes and roadrunners at an elevation of 3,013 feet.
Architectural Digest called it the “first environmentally-conceived resort in North America.”
Loews Hotels parent company is Loews Corporation which also owns an oil-drilling company, natural-gas pipelines and Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA Financial Corp. CNA Financial Corporation is one of the largest commercial property and casualty insurance organizations in the United States. Loews owned Bulova Watches until 2007. The Tisch brothers gained control of Loew's Theaters in 1960, thus the name but they dropped the apostrophe for their corporate name. Loews Lorillard tobacco division included brand leader Newport cigarettes.
Jonathan Tisch is the chairman of Loews Hotels and co-chairman of Loews Corp. Tisch, 57, is also treasurer of the National Football League’s New York Giants.
Loews Hotels currently owns and/or operates 19 hotels in the U.S. and Canada. Previously Loews operated the Loews Monte Carlo, Loews La Napoule, Loews Le Concorde in Quebec City, Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. and Loews Anatole.
The parents of Preston and Laurence Tisch bought the Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in Lakewood, NJ in 1946. That hotel's success was the springboard for Loews Corp. By 1956, the brothers were in a position to build their first hotel, the Americana in Bal Harbour, Fla., for $17 million in cash.