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CIVIC STAR
Adelaide Convention Centre
Convention centres are rarely un-conventional. Adelaide’s newly expanded Centre, overlooking the
River Torrens, is one of the rule-breakers and game-changers. Squeezed onto a tight, problematic
site, the design negotiated weighty engineering issues, straddling a busy rail line and underground
car-park. The result might have been ponderous in other hands, but this Woods Bagot design
creates a lightweight structure and heavyweight contender.
Cleverness and functionality intersect throughout – from railway turntables adapted to rotate
vast seating drums, to the riverfront facade with its jewel-like veil of Viridian performance glazing.
A third piece in the suite of three convention spaces, this latest on the eastern edge of the group,
promises to keep Adelaide in demand as a convention capital.
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