Ledger

Architect

Michel Rojkind
Mexico City, Distrito Federal

Architect

Callaghan Horiuchi
Bentonville, Arkansas

General Contractor

Nabholz Construction
Rogers, Arkansas

Sheet Metal Contractor

Harness Roofing Inc.
Springdale, Arkansas

Sheet Metal Fabricator

Dissimilar Metal Design
Bremerton, Washington

The Ledger is a new 230,000-square-foot, mixed-use office building in the heart of downtown Bentonville, Arkansas. Designed to be community-centric, the building creates a new place for the community to work, play, and gather, expanding connections between the workplace and the surrounding urban area. The ground floor mixes retail and office amenities, while floors above host traditional offices and the Ledger’s co-working community. Pedestrian ramps blur the line of where the building begins and the sidewalk ends, extending a continuous zigzag of movement up the east side of the building along Main Street. The ramps invite the public up onto a series of terraces that help scale the building with its context. Copper cladding traces the lines of the ramp, adding a tone and tactility that evokes the warm shades of the brick buildings around the historic Square. Accentuating the movement of the ramps, the copper at each terrace begins as flat panels that slowly morph into articulated profiles that eventually create a five-foot-deep planter. Located at each of the terraces, these planters invite moments of refuge and perspective.