The New High-Tech Convention Center That's the Future of the Meetings Industry
Skift Take
The push for more high-tech, design-conscious convention centers is becoming a competitive advantage for cities going after high-tech, design-conscious delegations.
You have to be a hardcore meetings and convention industry fan to get super excited about high-tech, ultra-fashionable convention centers, although there are a lot of us in the industry out there.
Other types of civic facilities designed for large audiences—from Charles Garnier's Paris Opera to Frank Gehry's Disney Concert Hall in L.A.—have long attracted architecture's elite, who use these grand venues to establish their legacies among the world's pantheon of urban design luminaries.
Convention centers, meanwhile, not so much. They typically have never attracted the same public adoration or the financial resources from city coffers to be considered truly visionary buildings. Many times, it's just the opposite.
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