Most of Tech's huge athletic facilities are located south of the Lower Quadrangle. The university's concrete coliseum houses a 10,000-seat basketball arena, gymnasiums, offices, and other athletic facilities. The roof of this rectangular building is supported on laminated wooden arches.
Anne Carter Lee, "Cassell Coliseum", [Blacksburg, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-MO17.5.
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 435-435.
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