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Adelaide Convention Centre
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Adelaide Convention Centre at night on the banks of the River Torrens.
Adelaide Convention Centre
General information
StatusCompleted
Address North Terrace, Adelaide
CountryAustralia
Opened15 June 1987
Technical details
Floor count3
Design and construction
Architect(s) John Andrews
Architecture firmJohn Andrews International
Renovating team
Architect(s) Larry Oltmanns
Renovating firm2001 extension: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
2012 extensions: Woods Bagot and Vx3 [1]
Website
www.adelaidecc.com.au

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. [2]

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History

The centre's West Building, which open in March 2015 Adelaide Convention Centre, West Building.jpg
The centre's West Building, which open in March 2015

The convention centre 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. [3] [4] It has been rebuilt and extended upon a few times since its original construction in 1987. [5] In 1999 an extension was planned [6] and in late 2001 it was unveiled. [7] It was designed by Larry Oltmanns who was a design partner with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill at the time. [8] 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 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. [8] Its "rational cooking system", 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. [9] It has also been the location of some significant commemorations of Australian icons. [10] AVCon, an annual anime and video games convention was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 2009 [11] 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 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 the design team for the $350 million expansion in February 2011. [12] [13] [14] [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "River banking on a new Torrens icon" . Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Our Purpose". Adelaide Convention Centre. Archived from the original on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  3. ↑ John Andrews International; Andrews, John (1984), Adelaide station environs redevelopment : design report 1984, John Andrews International, retrieved 13 March 2019
  4. ↑ Meredith Booth (28 April 2008). "Hyatt to fetch $100 million". The Advertiser . News Limited. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Adelaide Convention Centre, 1987-1997 : decade of distinction : programme. Programme for dinner, held on 13 June 1997 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Adelaide Convention Centre. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17022809
  6. ↑ South Australia. Parliament. Public Works Committee (1999). In Adelaide Convention Centre extension : final report; the 105th report of the Public Works Committee, October 1999. Government Printer, [Adelaide, S. Aust.]
  7. ↑ 14 October 2003 (Property Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) The extension to the Adelaide Convention Centre has won the 2003 South Australia Property Council of Australia Rider Hunt Award. The centre ... http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/117642718
  8. 1 2 Adelaide Convention Centre Expansion Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  9. ↑ "Stand-in GG begins official duties". The Age . 26 May 2003. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  10. ↑ The grand Bradman dinner, in honour of Sir Donald Bradman's 90th birthday, 27th August 1998, Adelaide Convention Centre[menu]. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28204815
  11. ↑ "About AVCon" . Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  12. ↑ "Adelaide Convention Centre Announces Expansion Project Team" . Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  13. ↑ "Convention Centre upgrade to start in September". ABC News . 29 June 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  14. ↑ "Adelaide Convention Centre". Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  15. ↑ "Adelaide Convention Centre-Vx3 Website". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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