Nearly $9 billion of convention centre design and construction is currently underway in Texas's five biggest cities. Local writer Kate Mazade asks experts about the phenomenon and dives into the plans for each city. More about Five Texas cities "catalyzing" urban development with convention centres
A 1950s convention centre in Belgium, revitalised by architecture studios AgwA and Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck, has been awarded this year's Mies van de Rohe Award. More about Charleroi Palais des Expositions revamp wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2026
Architecture studio Snøhetta is set to transform a former railway site into a riverside park and cultural destination in Drammen, Norway, adding a theatre and conference hall with an arched green roof. More about Snøhetta designs Skamarken riverside development with mound-like theatre
Global architecture studio SOM has used AI tools to inform its geometric design for the West Bund Convention Centre, which has risen beside the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. More about SOM uses AI to design diamond-like West Bund Convention Centre in Shanghai
Danish architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mass-timber, riverside conference centre in Rouen, France, with a swooping roof. More about BIG designs The Sail conference centre in Normandy
US architecture studio Populous has revealed images of the expansion to the Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles in conjunction with the project's groundbreaking, which took place earlier this month. More about Populous reveals images of Los Angeles Convention Center "decades in the making"
A team of in-house architects at Prague Exhibition Grounds has completed the renovation of the Křižík Pavilions in Prague, turning the once-temporary structures into modern venues topped by public gardens. More about Industrial-style 1990s pavilions overhauled at Prague Exhibition Grounds
Fluid shapes and ribbon-like bridges animate the Capital International Exhibition and Convention Centre, designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects as "Beijing's largest" convention centre. More about Copper-coloured curves define Beijing convention centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
British studio RSHP has unveiled its design for The Zhongyuan International Convention Centre, which will have an almost two-kilometre-long elevated floor plane and include 16 exhibition halls. More about RSHP designs 1.7-kilometre-long convention centre in China
Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing, which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. More about MAD tops "clover-like" conference centre in Beijing with undulating green roof
Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture teamed up to expand a convention centre with a sweeping copper-coloured canopy in Calgary, Alberta. More about Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture unveil western Canada’s largest convention centre
Promotion: US studio Substance Architecture has created a conference centre on a verdant site in Iowa, which is clad in elongated black bricks by material manufacturer Glen-Gery. More about Black bricks by Glen-Gery add "timeless feel" to Tree Huis in Iowa
Architectural lighting design firm Brandston Partnership used concealed facade lighting to showcase the undulating structure of the MAD-designed Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum. More about Brandston Partnerships' lighting design highlights sinuous shape of Yabuli conference centre
Superimpose Architecture used a traditional shopping-arcade typology to transform the dark basement of a commercial development in Hangzhou, China, into The Arcade conference centre. More about Superimpose Architecture creates subterranean conference centre based on Victorian shopping arcade
Ninety-five pine trees that retain their branches support the roof of Little Finlandia, an events centre in Helsinki designed by recently graduated architect Jaakko Torvinen. More about Little Finlandia in Helsinki is a modular conference venue held up by pine trees
A curved facade clad in herringbone tiles encloses the Te Pae Convention and Exhibition Centre, which Australian studio Woods Bagot and New Zealand studio Warren & Mahoney have completed in Christchurch. More about Tiled facade wraps curved convention centre by Woods Bagot and Warren & Mahoney
Dutch architecture office UNStudio is renovating and expanding the Elysion Congress Centre in Eindhoven by adding a cantilevered auditorium and vertical gardens. More about UNStudio to revamp conference centre for Brainport technology region
A 1960s hall with a barrel-vaulted concrete ceiling gave MoDus Architects the design cues for this refurbishment of an education centre in South Tyrol. More about MoDus Architects brings new logic to mid-century Cusanus Academy
Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed the recently completed Yabuli Entrepreneurs' Congress Center, which is surrounded by mountains in northeast China. More about MAD unveils sinuous conference centre nestled amongst Chinese mountains
Chinese architecture studio AOE has wrapped a conference centre near Jinan, China, in a layer of perforated metal screens. More about AOE covers exhibition centre in China with white perforated metal