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Safdie Architects Completes Expansion of Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas

Reyyan Dogan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will open a major 114,000-square-foot expansion to the public on June 6–7, 2026. Designed by Safdie Architects, with landscape architecture by Coen+Partners, the project extends the museum's original architecture while introducing new galleries, educational facilities, public gathering spaces, and landscape connections across the institution's 134-acre campus. The addition represents the completion of a long-term development strategy for the museum, enhancing both its exhibition capacity and its engagement with the surrounding Ozark landscape.

Thaden School / Marlon Blackwell Architects

Valeria Silva — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A private school with a public purpose, Thaden School is a new independent middle and high school in Bentonville, Arkansas. The school's unique curriculum combines academic excellence with learning by doing and features three signature programs: Wheels (where the fields of physics and mechanics come alive through the construction and use of bicycles and other wheeled machines), Meals (where biology, chemistry, and community come alive through the growing and preparation of food), and Reels (where narrative and visual communication come alive through the production of film and video).

MCHAP Announces Thaden School by EskewDumezRipple, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon Associates as Its Fifth Americas Prize Award Winners

Reyyan Dogan — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:30:00 +0000

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has just announced the winners of the fifth MCHAP Americas Prize award: Thaden School, designed by EskewDumezRipple, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon Associates. Located in Bentonville, Arkansas, on a 30-acre site, the campus explores the relationship between architecture, landscape, and community within the educational context. The announcement was made after a daylong celebration at S.R. Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) campus. The event featured Masterclass presentations by students from IIT and regional universities, along with a roundtable discussion with the finalists and jury during the MCHAP Symposium.

Pet Resource Center / RA-DA

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

As the first building of its kind, the Pet Resource Center is a revolution in the animal care industry. With kennels and cages intentionally omitted, its function is similar in many ways to an animal shelter, but its fundamental philosophy is the polar opposite.

Infinite Openness / PPAA

Agustina Coulleri — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0000

While thinking of a home for the future we looked back on what we have lost. Homes of tomorrow need to respond to an urgent need for sustainability and values enhanced by the technology available. Architecture needs to regain the idea of presence, of being part of a place and time. It has always been related to its context, the available resources, and local construction method, all of this should continue to be an essential part of it even though nowadays material can travel around the globe. Using local resources and construction methods the project gains a sense of place and a true relation to its natural and artificial surroundings.

Osage Park Pavilion / modus studio

Andreas Luco — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The Osage Park Pavilion is a gateway and centerpiece for Osage Park, which resides at the northern end of a small municipal airport in Bentonville, Arkansas. The airport is a playground for unique small aircraft, and this pavilion derives its playful form and structural expression from aircraft wing design. The simple, fluid form lifts seamlessly out of the ground, evolving into a light, airy structure that celebrates natural light pouring through repetitive structural elements and the dynamic, undulating Arkansas-sourced cypress facade.

Home Building at Thaden School / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000

The Home Building is the central hub at Thaden School, a new high school in Bentonville, Arkansas, where students learn by doing. The building’s design, much like the school’s 26-acre campus, strives to establish an innovative vision for the future while reflecting the rich, pastoral heritage of the surrounding landscape. The Thaden School challenges traditional paradigms of education.

Greenway Office Park / modus studio

Alexandria Bramley — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000

The client challenged the design team to create a modern, sustainable renovation of an aging existing complex of office buildings in Bentonville, Arkansas. The complex was a mixture of metal building and masonry structures in a significantly valuable location right on the Razorback Regional Greenway, a shared-use path running 36 miles through Northwest Arkansas. Cluttered and unorganized facades dominated the existing street presence of the site, however, the simple brick façade of Building One to the west provided a classic stock and backdrop for future architectural interventions. This skillful renovation and addition has extended the life of the Greenway Offices complex and created a healthy place to work.

CO-OP Ramen Restaurant / Marlon Blackwell Architect

Andreas Luco — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:00:00 +0000

In 2018, Ropeswing Group selected Marlon Blackwell Architects (MBA) to create the interior of their new 2,000 square foot fast casual ramen restaurant at the 8th Street Market in Bentonville, Arkansas. The 8th street market is a creative, local economy reimagining of a disused food processing plant. The design for CO-OP Ramen evolved from the productive dissonance of the new and the old, the highly crafted and happenstance.

Building Craft: Hufft on Local Culture and What it Means to Build Today

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 28 May 2020 07:35:00 +0000

Architecture is rooted in tectonics and craft. Few offices know this better than Hufft, an architecture, interior design and fabrication studio with offices in Kansas City and Bentonville. Founded on the belief that input from builders and fabricators adds value and creates better experiences, the studio's multi-disciplinary team now includes over 50 people. In an interview with ArchDaily, Principal Matthew Hufft discusses the firms values and what it means to build today.

50-Foot-Tall Buckminster Fuller “Fly’s Eye” Dome to Be Erected in Arkansas

Patrick Lynch — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:10:00 +0000

One of Buckminster Fuller’s visionary housing structures is set to be erected at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The 50-foot structure, known as the “Fly’s Eye Dome” is the largest of only three original prototypes hand-fabricated by Fuller during his lifetime.

Crystal Bridges Museum Store / Marlon Blackwell Architect

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Located in the heart of the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Moshe Safdie, 2011) in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA, the museum store is an insertion by a local architect into an existing 3,040 square foot curved concrete space. A local competition was held to find an architect that could contribute to the overall museum experience and provide the museum with a functional and tactile museum store. The space provided was heavily structured with concrete columns supporting a green roof above which severely dissecting the space. The west-facing storefront opened on to the entry plaza, making glare and heat gain an issue. The owner desired a store experience that was warm, natural, and tactile and understood by museum patrons as an extension of the museum experience.