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Ave Maria's Hothouse in Hurricane Alley By Michael S. Rose |
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A fledgling Catholic university unveils plans for an unsightly new chapel.
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(NAPLES, Florida) — As part of a plan for a new campus and town in southern Florida, Ave Maria University recently unveiled detailed designs for the centerpiece building of its community—a church.
Described by university officials as a "soaring glass, steel, and aluminum structure," the 60,000-square-foot mega-chapel calls for three thousand tons of structural steel welded and bolted together. Clad in glass and aluminum, this filigree structure will loom enormous on the landscape at 150 feet tall. The chapel is set to be the largest Catholic church in the United States. But rather than creating a pièce de résistance that would symbolize the promising aspirations of the newest Catholic university in the country, the architects have given birth to what could, instead, become an embarrassing eyesore...
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