Air Force Academy Chapel Interior. The site chosen for the project was at an elevation of 6500 feet on the East of the Rocky Mountains that became the reason for the division of the campus into three different levels which. The striking building features a succession of 17 glass and aluminum spires each composed of 100 tetrahedrons enclosing the upper level.
AECOM was hired by the Academy and USAF to design repairs to the 50-year-old construction. The Chapel of the United States Air Force Academy is a religious building completed in 1962 in the area of cadets north of Colorado Springs in the area known as El Paso County area Colorado United States. The Cadet Chapel is on the US National Historic Landmark and has become a classic.
The Cadet Chapel is on the US National Historic Landmark and has become a classic.
13-feb-2012 - Interior of the Air Force Academy Chapel. Air Force Academy Chapel interior. 20th c American Architecture SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL aka SOM active 1939 -. The SOM Architects were commissioned to design the master plan for the United States Air Force Academy campus Colorado in 1954 and completed in 1963.