Ground has been broken for the long-awaited clubhouse at Traditions Club and community, the home of the Texas A&M golf teams and the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Champions, with construction underway. The clubhouse is scheduled for completion sometime during the football season of 2010.
Traditions Club is a private, country club community with a Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II-designed golf course at its center of more than 1,000 acres in Bryan, Texas.
The complex will be comprised of four buildings: a golf shop with administrative offices, a men’s locker room, a women’s locker room and a building housing the restaurant/bar, banquet and conference space and kitchen. The village concept will emphasize outdoor areas and functionality.
Spencer Clements, a general partner of Traditions Club, said the clubhouse complex will be “green” with Houston-based Kirksey Architects working closely with environmental specialists Redding Linden Burr on geothermal exchange.
The complex will be about 21,000 square feet of air-conditioned and heated space plus outdoor walkways and patios bringing the whole complex up to 25,000 square feet. Houston-based Kirksey Architects highlights the casual design with an exterior palette of field stone, plaster, clear cedar and metal roofing. Covered walkways connect the buildings and provide a transition from indoor to outdoor space in a layered effect that reinforces connections to the golf course. Windows and doors are residential in scale and interior finishes are natural, warm and harmonious.
The Bryan office of Vaughn Construction is involved in site preparation and moving of utilities for mobilization of building crews prior to actual construction.