The Chapel
of the United States Air Force Academy is a religious building completed in
1962 in the Cadet Area, north of Colorado Springs, in the area known as El Paso
County, Colorado, United States.It has 46m of height, 85m length and a wide of
26m. It was designed by Walter Netsch, of Skidmore Owings and Merrill. It was
named National Historic Landmark of the USA. UU in 2004.
The building
is composed of 17 glass and aluminum needles, each one composed of 100
tetrahedra, which envelop the entire roof.
The
tetrahedrons that make up the needles are covered by triangular aluminum panels, while the tetrahedra that are generated between them are covered with a
mosaic of colored glass with aluminum frame.
The
building has 3 churches, one protestant, another catholic and a third jewish.
I find this
building very interesting because of the shape it has, and the function it
performs, I was also surprised when I saw it because of its very strange shape.
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