How Large Is Your City's Largest Exhibition Centre?
- Name?
- Year Operational?
- Size? (In Square Metres)
- City?
- Transport Access?

- Neue Messe München (http://www.messe-muenchen.de/id/28663)
- opened in 1998
- exhibition area: halls: 180,000 m² open air: 253,000 m²
- city: Munich, Germany
- public transportation: 2 subway stations, busses

http://bdb.messe-muenchen.de/metav/data/media/2/MM_04.jpg

Name: Frisian Expo Centre, part of WTC,
Est. : 1963 (as a cattle market, still operational),
Sqm : 2x15000 sqm, 1x5000 sqm and a recreational ice-skating hall,
City: Leeuwarden, Friesland, pop. 92000 , about 90 miles northeast of Amsterdam.
Acces: car, train, buses, bikes. :)

Milan Exhibition Center

New pole (Rho-Pero)
- Name = Fiera Milano
- Year Operational= 2005 (April)
- Size= 530.000 sm
- City= Milan
- Transport Access= Metro and Highways (+ next year a S railway station + in 2009 a HS station)

http://speciale.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/foto1/original/76NR0235.JPG

http://speciale.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/foto1/original/76NR0254.JPG

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http://speciale.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/foto1/original/D7ET0558.jpg

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http://speciale.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/foto1/original/DSC00631.jpg

http://speciale.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/foto1/original/DSC00635.jpg

*pics of February/March when it was still u/c

http://www.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/JumpCh.asp?idLang=ENG&idUser=0&idChannel=165

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Inner City Complex (city complex will be dismissed except "Portello" area)
- Year Operational= 1998 Portello (1920 the oldest area)
- Size= 170.000 Portello (over 400.000 all the complex)
- Transport Access= Metro and S lines

Portello

http://www.nahaci.cz/images/Fiera%20Milano.jpg

http://www.esarc.com/portello.jpg

Old area

http://www.enexsys.com/immagini/progetti/milano_fiera.jpg

http://www.enexsys.com/immagini/progetti/milano_fiera02.jpg http://www.enexsys.com/immagini/progetti/milano_fiera04.jpg

The project on the abandoned part of old complex

http://www.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/Upload/r/render_Citylife_pop.jpg

http://www.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/Upload/p/plastico_Citylife_pop.jpg

http://www.nuovosistemafieramilano.it/JumpCh.asp?idLang=ENG&idUser=0&idChannel=202

Lisbon, Portugal
FIL- Feira Internacional de Lisboa
Year-1999
size-100 000 m2 :( (only)
Lisbon
Subway, Bus, Train, Boat and near the airport
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/checco24/fil.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/checco24/113fil20003.jpg

Norges Varemesse
Location: Lillestrøm, suburb of Oslo
Year: 2002
Size: 52.000 sqm, where 32.000 sqm is the exhibition-halls themselves.
Access: 11 minutes by train from Oslo. 15 minutes by car. Parkingspace for 3.100 cars.
Visitors last year: 430.126

http://www.byggenytt.no/prosjekter/messe/maxi/luft.jpg

http://www.norvei-caravan.no/doc/IMG_0388.JPG

http://www.byggenytt.no/prosjekter/messe/maxi/inngang.jpg

http://info.bizkit.no/archive/00005/varemesse_sp2c5c36_5455a.jpg

http://www.messe.no/annualreport2004/images/no/forside.jpg

Does Milan really need that much exhibition space?? how is the rate of usage at the new center right now?

Milan's EC looks crazy:D:D

Los Angeles Convention Center

50,000 sqm (there are expnansion plans but not until the CC does better)

http://www.lacclink.com/images/laccpanorama.jpg

http://rlux.com/LASkyline1200dpi2b.jpg

http://www.pcfandp.com/a/p/8616/8616-2.jpg

The Milano one is excitingly interesting

Does Milan really need that much exhibition space?? how is the rate of usage at the new center right now?
They are about 15/20 years that regularly exhibition space demand exceded the offer of space of "old" pavillions of Fiera Milano

Hong Kong

http://www10.org/hkcec/hkcec.jpg

Exhibition Area : 28,000 sq m
Extension completed in 1997 (for the handover ceremony)

http://www.hkcec.com.hk/english/images/gallery/gal_cv_img01_1.jpg

In fiscal year 2003/04 (1 July 2003 - 30 June 2004), a total of 1,890 events were held at the HKCEC. As a part of business, there were 1,382 events utilizing major venues i.e. exhibition halls, convention halls, theatres, and large meeting rooms. These events included 95 major exhibitions (occupying 1,819 sqm or above), of which 67 were recurrent whereas 24 were new; 50 international conferences or conventions; 148 entertainment events including 61 film shows; 335 banquets; and 754 corporate events, press conferences, seminars, and others.

http://www.hkcec.com.hk/english/images/intro/awc_logo_250.gif

- Name: Fira BCN
- Year Operational:
- Size: 355.000 sqm (second biggest in europe after Milan) M1 115.000 ssqm + 240.000 sqm in M2:Gran Via
- City: Barcelona
- Transport Access:
M1.- Metro L1,L3,L8,
M2.- Metro L9, L2

Pics by Danzig

Montjuïc 1: the old.- 115.000 sqm

http://www.firabcn.com/MEDIA/UploadFileRepository/3900012_M1.jpg

Montjuïc 2:Gran via,the new.- 240.000 sqm

Model

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5211/233700004fotosrecinte016qi.jpg

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pavilion 3.1 , 4.1 and 5 U/C

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pavilion 1 , 2 , 3.1 , 4.1 and 5

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/986/233700028fotosrecinte079ed.jpg



Year 2009:
http://www.bcn2000.es/Usuarios/43B94/imagenes/BCNP/Recinte%202.gif
http://www.bcn2000.es/Usuarios/43B94/imagenes/BCNP/Edifici%20Vestíbul.gif



http://www.iespana.es/PHOTOSFER/paraforos/fira2/1500.jpg

Where is the new exhibition center in Barcelona located in relation to the old? Are they close to each other?

Eurexpo
About 100,000m²
Lyon, France
Access: Bus (via metro) & highway A43. Near an airport.

http://www.clamageran.fr/images/jpg/p_implantation/euroexpo.jpg

http://perso.easynet.fr/eddy.costes/images/eurexpo.jpg

http://www.eurexpo.com/fr/html/images/extension.jpg

Where is the new exhibition center in Barcelona located in relation to the old? Are they close to each other?

Montjuic2: Gran Via is in Hospitalet de Llobregat, 2 kmaprox.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/aquariusbcn/fira.jpg

In the future will be connected by the line 2 of the metro

what about the biggest single exhibition centre. All the ones posted seem to be multiple exhibition halls on one site.

Okay. No problem..............

Hannover Messe (http://www.messe.de/messegelaende_e?x=1)
operational since 1947 (rebuilt and expanded several times since then)
Size: overall 1,000,000 m²
27 exhibition halls with a combined exhibition area of 495,265m²
open air exhibition area of 57,880 m²
public transport: 2 tram/subway lines
S-Bahn metropolitan railway
ICE high speed national railway station
parking capacity: 39,000 cars
Hannover Messe claims to be the world's largest exhibition center.
It was also the site of Expo 2000.

http://www.buntereisebilder.de/hannover/images/picture-0003.jpg
http://files.messe.de/fotostrecke/000/2/2005-07-08/01-big.jpg
http://files.messe.de/fotostrecke/000/2/2005-07-08/02-big.jpg
http://files.messe.de/fotostrecke/000/2/2005-07-08/08-big.jpg
http://files.messe.de/fotostrecke/000/2/2005-07-08/06-big.jpg
http://files.messe.de/fotostrecke/000/2/2005-07-08/12-big.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/messecenter/logo.jpg

Name: Messecenter Herning
Location: Herning, Denmark
Halls: 15 (varying from 2.000 to 14.000 m2)
Indoor exhibition area: 91000m2
Administrative and service area: 18000m2
Outdoor display area: 400,000 m2
Stadium with a capacity of 12.500
Own train station
15000 Parking spaces



Messecenter Herning (http://www.messecenter.dk) consist of 3 different parts. The Exhibition Centre itself, the SAS Arena (stadium) and Kongrescenter Herning (http://www.kongrescenter.dk). In 2005 they had a total of 835.000 visitors, broken down to:

Visitors:

449.269 in the exhibition centre
149.119 at SAS Arena
236.426 at the congrescenter

Some photos, first the exhibition centre:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/messecenter/luft.jpg
(© Messecenter Herning)

SAS Arena
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/messecenter/sasarena.jpg
(© Messecenter Herning)

And here the intrance to the congrescenter:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/night/2.jpg