I had to add another picture to this post. Lest anyone think that the Academy chapel is just an architectural oddity, here's the massive pipe organ that resides at one end of the chapel. You can notice some of the stained glass that runs between the spires of the roof on the left of the picture also.
The chapel is a functioning church, and as such has everything you'd expect to find in a church - organ, altar, pews, stained glass.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Air Force Academy Chapel
Today's image, the latest in my American Architecture desktop pictures series, is from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I grew up in the shadow of Pike's Peak and my dad used to take me to basketball games at the Academy. This building has always been one of my favorites, and this is a great picture of it.
I think what I like about it is that it's so clean - all crisp lines and sharp angles. So often in architecture people compromise away the best design elements, but this is all there, precise and looking like a set of razor-sharp teeth!
I think what I like about it is that it's so clean - all crisp lines and sharp angles. So often in architecture people compromise away the best design elements, but this is all there, precise and looking like a set of razor-sharp teeth!
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