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13-712: The Adelaide Convention Centre is a large convention centre on North Terrace, Adelaide , South Australia . It was the first purpose-built convention centre to be built in Australia. Along with several other venues, the Adelaide Convention Centre is administered and staffed by the Adelaide Venue Management Corporation, a subsidiary of the South Australian Government . The convention centre

26-527: A convention center. In Francophone countries, the term is palais des congrès (such as the Palais des Congrès de Paris ) or centre des congrès (such as the Centre des congrès de Quebec). The original convention centers or halls were in castles and palaces . Originally a hall in a castle would be designed to allow a large group of lords, knights and government officials to attend important meetings with

39-503: The Morphett Street Bridge and be completed in 2014. Stage 1 would include a 4,300-square-metre (46,000 sq ft) multi-purpose concert space, meeting spaces and a 1000-seat ballroom over the railway tracks. Rann said Stage 2, scheduled to be completed by mid 2017, would feature a distinctive high-tech glass "arrow" structure capable of seating 3,500 people. Woods Bagot and Larry Oltmanns of Vx3 were appointed as

52-403: The theatre , divided by broad 'belts', called diazomata , with eleven rows of seats between each. The audience in a modern theatre are usually separated from the performers by the proscenium arch , although other types of stage are common. The price charged for seats in each part of the auditorium (known in the industry as the house ) usually varies according to the quality of the view of

65-767: The city to the waterfront. Built on space assembled from air rights over a rail yard, the new facility shares a site with the Old and New South Australia State Parliament Houses , the Adelaide Exhibition Hall, the Festival Centre , and the Adelaide railway station — Casino . The SOM project, was completed with Adelaide architects Woods Bagot , and conformed to the Adelaide Riverbank Master Plan. Its "rational cooking system",

78-955: The design team for the $ 350 million expansion in February 2011. 34°55′15″S 138°35′41″E  /  34.92083°S 138.59472°E  / -34.92083; 138.59472 Convention centre A convention center ( American English ; or conference centre in British English ) 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 halls . 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

91-605: The king. A more ancient tradition would have the king or lord decide disputes among his people. These administrative actions would be done in the great hall and would exhibit the wisdom of the king as judge to the general populace. One of the most famous convention center debacles happened in France on June 20, 1789. King Louis XVI locked a group known as the Third Estate out of the meeting hall in Versailles. This led to

104-475: The largest of any convention centre in the world, is equipped to serve 4,000 dinners in 20 minutes. The centre's main Plenary Hall can house up to 3,500 people in full convention mode. Looking over Torrens Lake , the centre is home to most of Adelaide's major conventions. It has also been the location of some significant commemorations of Australian icons. AVCon , an annual anime and video games convention

117-601: The revolutionary group holding their meeting in an indoor tennis court. This was the first modern democratic conference center and lead to the Tennis Court Oath and the French Revolution . Auditorium The term is taken from Latin (from audītōrium , from audītōrius ("pertaining to hearing")); the concept is taken from the Greek auditorium, which had a series of semi-circular seating shelves in

130-557: The stage. The seating areas can include some or all of the following: Sports venues such as stadiums and racetracks also have royal boxes or enclosures, for example at the All England Club and Ascot Racecourse , where access is limited to royal families or other distinguished personalities. In other countries, sports venues have luxury boxes , where access is open to anyone who can afford tickets. Additionally, some sports venues were themselves called auditoriums, such as

143-669: Was designed by John Andrews and constructed over part of the Adelaide railway station , together with the Hyatt Regency Hotel (now the InterContinental Hotel), Exhibition Hall and an office block in the 1980s as part of the Adelaide Station and Environs Redevelopment (ASER) project. It has been rebuilt and extended upon a few times since its original construction in 1987. In 1999 an extension

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156-524: Was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 2009 until 2019, and again in 2023 following a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It has since been relocated to Adelaide Showground . An expansion was announced in 2011. Making the announcement, the Premier of South Australia at the time, Mike Rann , said that work would begin that year on the first stage of the $ 350 million expansion abutting

169-487: Was planned and in late 2001 it was unveiled. It was designed by Larry Oltmanns who was a design partner with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill at the time. The project won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects 2002 Awards of Merit: BHP Colourbond Steel Award, Interior Architecture and New Building. SOM's expansion and renovation of Adelaide's Convention Centre reconnected historic parts of

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