St. Stephens Lutheran Church

St. Stephens Lutheran Church in Nrothglenn, designed by Boulder architect
Charles Haertling in 1964.

The unique roof of this church makes use of the mathematical shape, the hyperbolic
parabaloid. (Actually as Joel Haertling corrects in the comments, more of a
convex dome.)

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4 Responses to “St. Stephens Lutheran Church”

Joel Haertling April 12th, 2012 at 11:45 am

The structure is less hyperbolic parabaloid and more a convex dome.
There is also a motion picture “home movie” of the construction of this church shot by Charles A. Haertling incoporated in “Design Process of Charles A. Haertling Architect,” a 50 min. film.

Tom Lundin April 12th, 2012 at 1:22 pm

I’d love to see that film Joel!

andy mack November 14th, 2012 at 6:07 pm

I grew up not far from here and often had fantasies of skateboarding on that roof. never got up there though. the other one I wanted to skate on was the roof of the mystery building on 2nd and havana on aurora with the roof that looked like it was comprised of lots of BIG bubbles. I did climb up there and was disappointed to find out that the roof was some sort of rubber coated foam!?!

Tom Lundin November 15th, 2012 at 9:02 am

The building in Aurora is Fan Fair Discount City, featured in recent posts on The Eye!