June 2010

USAFA Cadet Chapel by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill

By |2010-06-08T09:13:42-07:00June 8th, 2010|Architecture|

“Designed by SOM as part of the Master Plan and design of the entire U.S. Air Force Academy campus, the Cadet Chapel was created as a single symbolic religious structure that accommodates the individuality of three major American faiths, thus requiring three distinct chapels.” In creating a monumental religious building, the design incorporated a monumental structure system. Seventeen rows of spires rise 150 feet high coming to seventeen points shooting [...]

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