Convention center

src: upload.wikimedia.org

A convention center (American English conference center outside the US) is a large building designed to convene, where individuals and groups come together to promote and share common interests. Convention centers usually offer floor space sufficient to accommodate several thousand participants. A very large place, perfect for major trade events, sometimes known as exhibition center . The convention center usually has at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, conference rooms and conference rooms. Several major resort area hotels including the convention center.

Video Convention center

Historic center

19th century exhibit space

• 1850 Bingley Hall (destroyed by fire in 1984), Birmingham, England
• 1851 Crystal Palace (destroyed by fire in 1936), London, England
• 1855 Palais de l'Industrie (demolished in 1897), Paris, France
• 1873 Alexandra Palace, London, United Kingdom
• 1876 Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• 1878 Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
• 1878 La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1879 Garden Palace (destroyed by fire in 1882), Sydney, Australia
• 1880 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, Australia
• 1898 Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa, Canada
• 1898-1903 Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands

20th century exhibit space

• 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 Center, Nairobi, Kenya
• 1976 Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• 1979 Internationales Congress Centrum, Berlin, Germany
• 1981 Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA
• 1983 Convention and Exhibition Center of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
• 1988 Washington 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 space

• 2001 Bethlehem Convention Palace, Bethlehem, Palestine
• 2008 Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• 2017 AU Convention Center, Visakhapatnam, India

Maps Convention center

Picture gallery

src: upload.wikimedia.org

See also

• Stadium
• List of convention and exhibition centers
• List of convention centers named after people

src: www.som.com

References

src: columbusconventions.com

External links

• Historic Conference Center in Europe

Source of the article : Wikipedia