Offices at The Link — PGA HQ
Project Stats
- Location
Frisco, Texas
- Size
150,000 SF
- Market
- Expertise
Setting the Par
The Link is a 240-acre, mixed-use district on the northeast edge of the PGA of America headquarters campus in the rapidly growing city of Frisco, Texas. Eventually, the district will encompass 11 office buildings, seven multifamily buildings, two hotels, shopping, and a 2-acre park. Corgan provided speculative designs for the first office — a 150,000 square foot, 6-story building with expansive views of the Frisco Fields East golf course that includes a parking garage and restaurant.
Field of Schemes
The team developed four design schemes that explore the integration of a boutique office into the plans for a lively, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly environment. Each scheme was designed to be Texas Modern, with a balance of Spanish origins, Texas roots, modernist principals, and industrial language defining the hierarchy, proportions, rhythm, and building materials.
Each of the four schemes — The Stack, The Veranda, The Veil, and The Screen — exhibit warmth and texture. All four employ a concrete and steel frame that allows for balconies, canopies, and depth in the facade, but variations in the material selection, balcony shape, and fenestration make each option distinct.
The Stack: Features a rhythmic brick facade sliced at each level by wrap-around slab extensions, which provide continuous platforms for balconies that take advantage of tailored views.
The Veranda: The staggered facade of elegantly detailed dark metal and glass sits above a grounded base of rough Texas limestone.
The Veil: A layer of slender wooden slats shades the southwest office glass from the afternoon Texas sun while providing a delicate, warm texture.
The Screen: A simple box of masonry elevates the lighter glass element that is covered by an aluminum screen, which peels away to reveal corner balconies, clad on each floor and ceiling with local wood.
Keeping it in Context
For each design, it was important to express the structure of the design, use masonry on the exterior, and employ outdoor terraces and balconies as a defining element. The developer also wanted to complement the existing design language of the PGA headquarters. To achieve this, the scale of the building is softened through setbacks and material change moving vertically.
The office was also designed to encourage activity in the street-level promenade that runs along the southeast side of the office, connecting the Village Green park to the PGA Frisco Fields East Course. The largely single loaded corridors on the southwest side of the office were carefully arranged to frame compelling views of the golf course while managing solar heat gain.
The Stack
The Veranda
The Veil
The Screen
