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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine

Alice L. Walton School of Medicine

A new Arkansas medical school building uses steel to blur the lines between art, architecture, and nature.

The hills and mountains surrounding Bentonville, Ark. are full of naturally eroded escarpments--and cantilevers in Bentonville’s soon-to-open Alice L. Walton School of Medicine mimic the shelter and reprieve of Ozark geology.

Read more about the engineering behind the two-story-deep, 82-ft cantilever at aisc.org/AWSOM.