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This is a new building (completed Spring 2002). From the outside, it appears the entire structure is glass, but on the inside, it's not! This is a rather modern looking Catholic church, but still incorporates all of the traditional Catholic icons and "decorations" (such as the stations of the cross--these are actually mounted on the posts down each side of the sanctuary; they face the outside walls).

One end of the building is the main sanctuary (with a good size chapel behind the platform area), the other end of the building is classrooms and ofices. The center portion is a large open lobby which can double as a chapel or large, yet intimate classroom space. The acoustics of the central area is very poor (based primarily on the parallel side glass walls). This was most apparent when two men were setting up chairs in the space and couldn't understand each other, yet were only 15 feet apart!

The main seating area of the sanctuary has a gentle sloping floor made of tile; all of the pews are wood. The wide seating area isn't the most ideal, but the number of seats on the extreme front sides is few compared with the rest of the seating, so it offers the "wide" feeling, yet with only a few seats in a poor location. The walls are drywall; I'm not sure what the ceiling material is. The wall behind the platform is wood slat type construction.

I was unable to hear any strong reflections off any surface, but did notice the reverberation time of the room was a bit on the long side and changed in frequency with time.

The audio system is a distributed in-ceiling system; it appears to have been an afterthought that needed to "blend in" and not be seen at all. I didn't hear the system in operation, but can guess it doesn't perform nearly as well as needed in this room.