Air Force Academy Center for Character and Leadership Development Breaks Ground
The Center for Character and Leadership Development (CCLD), a new building on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy, broke ground in mid-October. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the CCLD is the first new building since 1981 to be erected on the terrazzo (the central square) of Air Force Academy’s campus, which was designed by SOM in 1954 and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2004. Construction on the CCLD will be complete in early summer 2014.
“The CCLD asserts itself as a 21st-Century campus icon, while also deferring to the discipline and rigor of the Academy’s original plan,” said Roger Duffy, a design partner at SOM. “We’re excited to be revisiting our work on this significant 20th-Century landmark and contributing to its enduring position in the canon of American architecture.”