{"id":636911,"date":"2026-10-05T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636911\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:06:39","slug":"tpg-architecture-designs-mls-hq-office-as-a-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636911\/","title":{"rendered":"TPG Architecture designs MLS HQ “office as a stadium”"},"content":{"rendered":"

North American football league Major League Soccer has moved its New York headquarters to the Penn 2 skyscraper and commissioned US studio TPG Architecture<\/a> to have it mirror the dynamics of a soccer pitch. <\/p>\n

The office opened earlier this year just before the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a>, which also coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the Major League Soccer (MLS) organisation and football’s “surging cultural momentum”, according to TPG Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"MLSTPG Architecture has completed a new HQ for the MLS in New York<\/p>\n

The two-storey office integrates elements from a football<\/a> stadium, according to the studio, such as an entrance area that resembles the tunnel players run through to enter the field.<\/p>\n

“The ‘office as a stadium’ concept emerged from feedback the MLS Commissioner had collected from current and former players, coaches, retired athletes, and long-standing employees about what they hoped to see in the new headquarters,” said the studio.<\/p>\n

\"MLSVisitors enter via an elevator bay designed to resemble a tunnel<\/p>\n

“The architectural layout mirrors the dynamics of a soccer pitch, utilising fluid curves inspired by the physics of a moving ball and the momentum of the game to inform how the space is experienced.”<\/p>\n

Visitors enter through the tunnelled elevator bay clad in custom mesh weave that is “goalie net-esque”. LED lighting behind the walls and ceiling-mounted LED screens can be programmed to display branding for visitors, clubs, or sponsors, according to the studio.<\/p>\n

\"TPGJerseys and the MLS Championship Cup sit on either side of the reception area<\/p>\n

This space leads into a reception area, and beyond that, a double-height lobby is centred around a grand staircase. A wall of jerseys surrounds one side of the reception area, while the Championship Cup is displayed on a pedestal on the other.<\/p>\n

The grand staircase connects to spaces such as meditation and wellness rooms, coffee bars and a bottom-floor cafe that are together referred to as the Midfield, or a central space where employees can gather and interact.<\/p>\n

\"TPGA cafe and technical support area are located on the first level<\/p>\n

The staircase itself is lined with a digital LED banner that represents different tiers of a stadium, and flashes players and branding.<\/p>\n

At the bottom level, the floors open up into the cafe area and a “dugout-style” IT technical corner that takes cues from the technical area of a stadium, where coaches gather during a game.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, conference and meeting rooms are lined with screens and primarily grey carpeting and seating. Bold “grass green” and cobalt “MLS-blue” tones were also used across furniture and accents.<\/p>\n

Employee working floors are lined with a patterned carpet and desk units.<\/p>\n

\"MLSScreens are integrated throughout the office<\/p>\n

The studio said it incorporated a diagonal slash motif throughout the project, pulling from the MLS shield logo, which features an elongated slash across its centre.<\/p>\n

TPG Architecture also completed a headquarters for the NHL in Manhattan<\/a> and the office of an advertising agency in North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MLS is the primary football league in the United States and Canada and was founded in 1996 after the US hosted the 1994 World Cup.<\/p>\n

Dezeen recently rounded up the 23 stadiums slated to host the 2030 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of Major League Soccer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North American football league Major League Soccer has moved its New York headquarters to the Penn 2 skyscraper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,83054,438,146,4118,85,46,13024,1886,287521,2586],"class_list":["post-636911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-atriums","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-football","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-tpg-architecture","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}