Texas Motor Speedway Club Tower

Client: Speedway Motor Sports, Inc. (SMI)

Location: Texas Motor Speedway, Dallas, TX

152,000 s.f. mixed-use facility

THE ASSIGNMENT: SMI wanted a new corporate image for their Texas Motor Speedway campus to include a restaurant and banquet facility, two-story health club and spa and administrative offices.

THE SOLUTION: We created an 11-story curving high rise building clad in multi-colored blue reflective glass with red mullion accents located adjacent to the track on Turn One. On the end of the building, a monumental open air stairway leads to an eleven story glass enclosed, space frame atrium with a reflecting pool base designed as a ceremonial entrance to the track. The track-side of the building includes a 4,000-seat grandstand with the angled glass enclosure of the restaurant and banquet levels cantilevered above.

The entrance automobile drop-off area is defined by an 80 foot long water wall and is covered by a custom tensile structure canopy. The two-story entry lobby incorporates a multi-colored terrazzo floor pattern and limestone wall panels with bronze metal accents. Custom cherry, birdseye maple and bubinga wood wall panels and bronze hardware are featured throughout the interior spaces.

A state-of-the-art health club and spa facility was designed for levels one and two, where steam rooms, whirlpool and saunas in the men’s and women’s locker rooms are dressed in wood veneer and black granite finishes. Six of the building’s floors were devoted to administrative offices and an eight-room conference room center with movable walls, while a 400-seat restaurant and a 1,000-person banquet hall sit atop the building on the highest floors.

The project was the winner of the 1999 Charlotte, North Carolina AIA Bottom Line Award and the 1999 Texas Design and Construction Award.