United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794Owens, Hubert B.1962-07Located at: University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.View of roof construction for Stegeman Coliseum, showing steel scaffolding supporting the roof during construction. Completed in 1964 for more than four million dollars, the Coliseum seats 11,200, houses the coaching staffs of most athletic teams at the University and hosts a wide variety of cultural and recreational activities. Stegeman Coliseum began as a request in 1952 by University of Georgia president O. C. Aderhold to the Board of Regents for an agricultural center. In 1960, Governor Ernest Vandiver recommended to the General Assembly that money be appropriated to build the Coliseum. The Coliseum was designed by Cooper-Barrett-Skinner-Woodbury & Cooper of Atlanta and built by Thompson & Street Company of Atlanta and Charlotte. The roof, composed of concrete with a synthetic rubber coating is free-standing above the building, supported on two diagonal parabolic arches that span 384 feet. The exterior walls are concrete panels, pre-cast on site. On three sides of the building, the roof cantilevers over the walls by up to fifty feet. The front elevation is curved, and the roof overhang is twelve feet. The main arches and their foundations are reinforced concrete, anchored in a concrete foundation embedded in solid rock. Nearly four thousand triangular concrete units form the roof. Designed primarily as an arena for agricultural exhibitions, the Coliseum was also designated for student assemblies and sporting events. Completion was delayed a year by below-strength concrete in the foundations and buttresses, and the Coliseum was finally opened in 1964. Just seven days afterward, the seventy-five thousand dollar sprayed-on roof began to leak; it was found to be too thin to withstand expansion and contraction of the roof due to temperature changes. In March 1996, the University of Georgia Coliseum was renamed in honor of Herman James Stegeman, a successful coach and dean at the University of Georgia.Slide annotated: "Ga. Athens, Univ. Coliseum, under construction."Date of structure: 1964.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/University of GeorgiaThompson & Street Company (Atlanta, Ga.)International Style (modern European architecture style)ConcreteSteelIron alloyMetalArenasSports buildingsRecreation buildingsArchitecture--Georgia--AthensArchitecture--Georgia--Clarke CountyStegeman Coliseum (University of Georgia)StillImage