The city can take inspiration from Walmart heiress Alice Walton’s revolutionary vision for a holistic medical school
This summer, the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) opened in Bentonville, Arkansas, attracting attention both for its striking architecture and revolutionary ideas about medicine.
The four-storey building with its angular facade is clad in earth-tone precast concrete and brass panels, reflecting the geology of the surrounding landscape and the Ozark Mountains.
Unusually for such a grand project – it has a rooftop garden, reflection pond, wellness studio and gym – a local architectural studio was employed for its design, instead of parachuting in a “starchitect”, who was as likely as not to have produced a building quite alien to the area. Arkansas-based Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects has an office in Fayetteville and has been practising in the area for almost five decades.
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