Convention center
The Capitol View Conference Center in Washington, D. C.
Inside the big auditorium of the Swiss Tech Convention Center.
A convention center (American English; conference centre outside the USA)[1] is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees. Very large venues, suitable for major trade shows, are sometimes known as exhibition centres. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms. Some large resort area hotels include a convention center.
Historic centers
19th-century exhibition halls
Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building, host of the 1880 World's Fair
- 1850 Bingley Hall (destroyed by fire in 1984), Birmingham, England[2]
- 1851 The Crystal Palace (destroyed by fire in 1936), London, England
- 1855 Palais de l'Industrie (dismantled in 1897), Paris, France
- 1873 Alexandra Palace, London, England[3]
- 1876 Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- 1878 Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
- 1878 La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina[4]
- 1879 Garden Palace (destroyed by fire in 1882), Sydney, Australia
- 1880 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia
- 1898 Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa, Canada
- 1898-1903 Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20th-century exhibition halls
- 1900 Grand Palais, Paris, France
- 1909 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
- 1912 McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 1959 Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- 1974 Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
- 1976 Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- 1979 Internationales Congress Centrum, Berlin, Germany
- 1981 Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA
- 1988 Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 1990 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
- 1993 Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 1997 Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
21st-century exhibition halls
- 2001 Bethlehem Convention Palace, Bethlehem, Palestina
- 2008 Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Image gallery
Exhibition Hall of the Makaryev Fair
Kongresshalle Berlin - House of the Cultures of the World
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McCormick Place in Chicago, the largest Convention center in North America
View of the west portion of the San Diego Convention Center from West Harbor Drive. The San Diego Convention Center is one of the largest in North America and is home to Comic-Con International
Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the first LEED-certified convention center in North America
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Riocentro convention center in Rio de Janeiro, the largest in Latin America, and also a 2016 Olympic venue.
See also
References
- ↑ "English definition of "convention centre"". Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ "The History of Conference Centers". Lane End Conference Center. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ "Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill and Wood Green, North London". The Victorian Web. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ "La Rural | Predio Ferial de Buenos Aires - Centro de Exposiciones, Congresos, Convenciones y Eventos". www.larural.com.ar. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
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