Overview :-
- Cadet Chapel was the highlight architectural element of the master plan by the architectural firm SOM for the entire campus of the United States Air Force Academy. Designed by architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merril of Chicago its proposal was controversial in its origins but over time the Cadet Chapel has become an example classic and very appreciated of modernist architecture.
- The building has a surprising succession of 17 needles of glass and aluminum, each composed of 100 tetrahedra, involving the whole deck. continuous panels of bright colored glass tubular dress tetrahedra, allowing diffused light into the building.
