It looks like a Wal-Mart Superstore with a cheap Jennie Jones make over. This Leviathan doesn't fit in with the other architecture surrounding it and contributes to massive traffic congestion on Rosecrans. Appropriately, this building is the visual summation of the ministry it enfolds. It is a grand and glorious tribute to Pastor McPherson and a perfect building from which to broadcast a sad and divisive gospel.

The building style seems to fit their philosophy style, clunky, black and white, institutional, forced directionals.

Check out this link on Flickr of a before photo of the building. http://flickr.com/photos/27667193@N03/2957151497/in/photostream/ Adaptive reuse is great, but we should also be considering the architectural merit of the building to be reused. In this case it may have been a better decision to demolish it and start over.

Whoever took the pictures for O&O clearly tried to find the least flattering shots of this building and well done with that! It's an interesting thought - to compare this building with the old Cathedrals. Cathedrals are architectural wonders but most failed to serve their indented purpose and now sit empty attracting tourists but not parishioners. When you realize that the Rock was originally a massive Navy building (Building 94) with 3’ thick cement walls and no windows – it’s amazing what they’ve been able to do! And it’s functional. There was also a tremendous amount of symbolism worked in to their project. If you take the tour someone else posted, you can see all of the details that O&O probably isn’t interested in… http://www.therocksandiego.org/pictures/2007-06-27-bldg94/1/ http://www.therocksandiego.org/pictures/2007-08-26-libertystation1stsund...

I could see an onion but there are building out there that are far worse. I dont see it as an eye sore when driving by.

Yuck, yuck, yuck. And that's not laughter. Looks like a tilt up with extras thrown in from the parts bin. Nothing aesthetically pleasing about this hulking gob of concrete. The grass is alive, at least.

When the Rock Church took a former air conditioning structure and expanded the hulking building into an architectural eye sore, local residents were not aware of the round the clock activities the church would have and negative impacts on our community. No words can describe the painful traffic snarls that local resident are subjected to 24/7. The local planning board warned the community of the impacts of the church's school transporting up to 4,000 students (that's a potential 8,000 more car trips)at day on Rosecrans, scheduling evening classes throughout the week and holding 3 or more church services on weekend days and evenings. This project deserves the grand onion and it's negative impacts will be felt on the local community for years to come.

The Rock Church is a perfect name for the religious sect that inhabits this monolithic monstrosity. How fitting that this should be on the old NTC site - their football team (see their website) is called the Warriors. The only possible excuse for this is that they used an existing structure (no data on their website for this that I could find). Otherwise, WHY?? As was written above, it's not a church, it's a rock.

Yes - it's a huge behemoth. But that's because it seats 3500 in an auditorium. Check out more interior images here. http://www.therocksandiego.org/tour2/

six flags over jesus...its a compund right?

Wal-church.