[1] The Crawford Hall Complex, in addition to housing the athletic administration offices and practice facilities, also includes sports medicine, strength and conditioning, and student-athlete academic support services.

The facility's outdoor breezeway is also informally recognized within the UC Irvine community as the rehearsal space for hip hop dance team Kaba Modern.

[citation needed] Crawford Hall is one of nine original buildings designed by William Pereira that were present when the campus opened in 1965.

[3] Cased in cylindrical concrete panels and perched atop a small hill, it has a castle-like presence when viewed from the road.

American no-wave band Sonic Youth played a 14-song set at Crawford Hall on November 3, 1990 in support of the album Goo[5] Since 2016, the complex has been used by the Los Angeles Rams during their training camps at UC Irvine.