The community of Bentonville, Arkansas prides itself on its cultural opportunities, greeting visitors with an assortment of venues. Likewise, the city’s newest venue receives guests with an 80-foot tall glass rainscreen that provides a captivating and unique welcome as people set foot into an astonishingly creative artistic setting.
Manufactured by Bendheim, the glass rainscreen at The Momentary features four design motifs, inspired by traditional Osage Indian clothing to honor the site’s Native American heritage. The new structure, an adaptive re-use of a former cheese factory and a satellite to the nearby Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, opened to the public in February with a performance by vertical dance troupe BANDALOOP. The dynamic opening performance incorporated projected art and dancers suspended onto the Bendheim glass rainscreen surface. The Momentary is the world’s first building to use Bendheim’s innovative glass rainscreen as a 6,000-square-foot projection surface.