A contemporary addition to a landmark campus
In the 1950s, SOM famously master-planned a rigorously modern campus for the U.S. Air Force Academy on a site abutting the Rocky Mountains. Five decades later, SOM revisited the campus—now a National Historic Landmark District—to design a home for the newly created Center for Character & Leadership Development (CCLD).
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As an education and research center, the CCLD supports the U.S. Air Force Academy’s mission to integrate character and leadership development into all aspects of the Cadet experience. And with a bold design by an integrated architectural and structural engineering team, the CCLD introduces a contemporary counterpoint to the Academy’s iconic Cadet Chapel.