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The construction of the Assembly Hall (Champaign) was conceived to provide the University of Illinois with needed space for university's ceremonies and athletic events. The university needed a building that could seat the entire university population. The project was over seen by Ray C. Dickerson, president of Felmley-Dickerson Co. who hired architects Harrison & Abramovite and structural engineering firm Ammann & Whitney, of New York City. The design, by Max Abramovitz, called for the first ever concrete dome sport structure. Assembly Hall is considered an engineering marvel because of Abramovitz's concrete contractors used prestressed concrete in a way it had never been used before.