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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

The Beatles, Elvis and the only NBA championship in Portland history all happened inside a glass cube balanced on four columns. Veterans Memorial Coliseum, at 300 Winning Way in the Rose Quarter, opened on November 1, 1960. The design by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill remains one of American Modernism's boldest arenas: a freestanding circular concrete seating bowl inside a 360-foot glass-and-aluminum curtain-wall cube, with 80,000 square feet of tinted glass giving the lobby views of the skyline ...