Ray is more than a building.
It’s a place.
Whether you live here or just plan on hanging out, Ray makes sure art and culture are never far.
We really obsessed over every detail.
Using honest, organic materials and a natural palette, Ray aims to blend elevated design with practicality. We want to reimagine what the modern home can be.
Blonde oak floors. Light flooded spaces. Laundry in every unit. Because generic apartments don’t cut it anymore.
Ray Phoenix offers a collection of penthouse homes starting at a generous 1,600 square feet. This limited offering of residences includes upgraded features such as top of the line appliances, unique spacious layouts, elevated finishes, plus a retractable wall of windows, revealing panoramic views from the Camelback Mountains to the City skyline.
You can find Ray Phoenix in the Roosevelt Row Arts District. Here are some of our favorite places around town.
Dialog
An intentionally curated, creative and engaging space with a collection of beautiful objects for everyday use, an art book library, and hand crafted coffee, tea and food provisions.
Mount Sunny
“Mount Sunny is a modern wellness studio centered around ancient healing practices and philosophies of Traditional Chinese Medicine.”
Greenwood Brewing
Woman-owned and operated (just like Ray!), Greenwood Brewing is changing the perception of women and beer one tasty pint at a time.
HEARD MUSEUM
Located a 5 minutes drive up N. Central Ave., The Heard Museum specializes in traditional and contemporary American Indian art across many mediums including beadwork, pottery, drawings & prints, paintings, and photography. Photo courtesy of visitphoenix.com.
Monsoon Market
Named “Best Bodega” in Phoenix Magazine’s Best of 2023, Monsoon Market is the perfect place to find every pantry item you didn’t know you needed.
Sottise
Once a family residence, Sottise has transformed their space into a cozy date night spot. Combining the techniques and appearance of old-world and new, Sottise's top notch food and beverage program won’t disappoint.
Wang's Vintage
Our go-to spot for curated vintage t-shirts, denim, and collectibles. A $10 bin and free parking make Wang's essential Phoenix shopping.
Bad Jimmy's
Follow the red neon to this food truck turned Downtown Phoenix restaurant and bar with the best smash burgers in town. Leave room for dessert and thank us later!
Throughout Ray Phoenix, you can find artwork by local and international, emerging and established, artists.
We’re building a living and gathering space for artists, entrepreneurs, and creative people from all walks of life to express their voices and perspectives. Find us at 777 N. Central Avenue, in Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row Arts District.
Johnston Marklee
Sharon Johnston, FAIA, and Mark Lee are the founding partners of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee. Since its establishment in 1998 in Los Angeles, Johnston Marklee has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 40 major awards and numerous publications. Both Johnston and Lee are Professors in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where Lee served as the Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2018-2023.
Projects undertaken by Johnston Marklee are diverse in scale and type, spanning fourteen countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Recent projects undertaken by Johnston Marklee include the new, permanent home for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) at Roy Lichtenstein Studio in New York’s Greenwich Village; a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; among others.
The Building
Johnston Marklee & Associates, in partnership with Lamar Johnson Collaborative, conceptualized the building’s primitive form, clear structure, and textured green palette to be animated by the changing light and shadow of the desert skies that marks the landscape of the west.
The building establishes an engaging street presence through its retail storefront, an inviting addition to the downtown Phoenix streetscape. Grace Fuller Marroquín of Grace Fuller Design conceived the landscape concept for Ray Phoenix, focusing on an aridly lush yet ecologically sound landscape design, with an emphasis on the use of native species and blending of the exterior landscape approach with the interior amenity design. The building interior was designed by Ray's in-house design team in collaboration with Parts & Labor.
Alex Israel
Alex Israel (b. 1982, Los Angeles) earned a B.A. from Yale University, Connecticut, and an M.F.A. from University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles. Israel’s works are included in major museums and private collections worldwide, including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
The Art
Each of Alex Israel's murals is hand-painted by scenic artists in a style once commonly adopted by movie studios to make backdrops, before the rise in digital special effects. They highlight plants and objects as characters, but also frame the potential action that might ensue before them when a viewer becomes the character in their scene.
For Ray Phoenix, Israel is creating a site-specific mural featuring desert rocks and flora, inspired by the landscape in and around Phoenix and his hometown of Los Angeles. Similar work has been exhibited at Le Consortium in Dijon, France (2013) UCCA in Beijing, China (2014), and hotel Le Sirenuse in Positano, Italy (2017).
