Ledger City Center | Dissimilar

Ledger City Center
Marlon Blackwell Architects with Rojkind Arquitectos + Callaghan Horiuchi
Bentonville, Arkansas
DMD Copper
2022

The Ledger is a new 230,000 SF mixed-use office building in the heart of Downtown Bentonville expanding connectivity between the workplace and the urban context. Dissimilar Metal Design provided the flat-seam copper, engineered and fabricated to the building’s unique geometry.

Designed to be community-centric the building focuses on providing public access and amenities. The building blurs the lines of where the building begins and the sidewalk ends.

Pedestrian ramps extend up into the air, creating a continuous zig-zag of movement up the eastside of the building along Main Street. This pedestrian-friendly design invites the public up onto a series of stepping terraces, scaling the building to the surrounding context, creating moments of refuge and prospect.

From top to bottom, copper cladding traces the pedestrian ramp. This provides a warm tactility akin to the warm tones of the brick buildings around the historic Square. Offering a new kind of workplace experience in Downtown Bentonville the Ledger goes beyond the typical office building, offering diverse amenities and connecting to the growing community of Northwest Arkansas.