Designed by HGA with Hufft, the new Institute for Integrative & Innovative Research melds a public-facing timber pavilion with a steel-framed lab corridor.
Polk Stanley Wilcox’s park-topped Alice L. Walton School of Medicine and Marlon Blackwell Architects’ stone-clad Heartland Whole Health Institute debut months ahead of an expansion of the philanthropist’s Arkansas art museum.
Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects and EskewDumezRipple with Andropogon Associates, the project is the first in the U.S. to be awarded the prestigious honor since SANAA’s Grace Farms in 2016.
Pavilion co-commissioners Peter MacKeith, Susan Chin, and Rod Bigelow will be joined by a curatorial design team comprising Marlon Blackwell, Julie Bargmann, Stephen Burks, and Maura Rockcastle.
The complex unites several once-scattered municipal entities, including a district court and city council chambers, at a single site near the heart of a fast-growing Northwest Arkansas community.
A switchback cycling and walking path extends from the street to the roof at Ledger, designed by Michel Rojkind and Callaghan Horiuchi with Marlon Blackwell Architects.