Rose Bowl
- Architect
- Myron Hunt
- Year
- 1923
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
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The Rose Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Pasadena that opened in October 1922, designed by Myron Hunt, a significant early twentieth-century Pasadena architect. With an all-seated capacity of 89,702, it ranks as the 20th-largest stadium in the world and the 11th-largest in the United States. It has been a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, and since 1982 it has served as the home stadium of UCLA football.
the building
Capacity and scale. The bowl seats 89,702 fans, making it the 20th-largest stadium in the world, the 11th-largest in the United States, and the 10th-largest NCAA stadium, sited ten miles north-northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Home of the Rose Bowl Game. The stadium is best known as the host of the annual college football Rose Bowl Game, and since 1982 it has also been the home stadium of the UCLA Bruins football team.
the architect
Myron Hunt was a significant early twentieth-century Pasadena architect; the Rose Bowl, which opened in 1922, stands among his best-known commissions.
significance
The Rose Bowl is a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It has hosted five Super Bowl games, third most of any venue, along with the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, and the soccer gold-medal match of the 1984 Summer Olympics. It is scheduled to host both soccer gold-medal matches at the 2028 Summer Olympics.
nearby
- Millard House
- Gamble House
- Norton Simon Museum
- Samuel Merrill House
- Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals
- Colonial Court