OMA completes new Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Center
The city of Toulouse in Southern France recently completed MEETT, its brand new Exhibition and Convention Center designed by OMA / Chris van Duijn. Combining a convention center, exhibition halls, a multi-function event hall, a parking structure for 3,000 cars, and a transportation hub with a new tram station, bus stop, and cycling facility, the enormous complex measures 155,000 square meters (over 1.6 million square feet), making it the third largest of its kind in France, outside of Paris. Photograph by Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of OMA. Photograph by Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of OMA."The masterplan of MEETT has been conceived as an active strip — ‘une bande active’ — forming a physical border between urban development and countryside, with the ambition of becoming the central spine for an integrated development of the city and the countryside," explains OMA's project description. "The program of the exhibition and convention centre is organized into three parallel bands: an [....
The city of Toulouse in Southern France recently completed MEETT, its brand new Exhibition and Convention Center designed by OMA / Chris van Duijn.
Combining a convention center, exhibition halls, a multi-function event hall, a parking structure for 3,000 cars, and a transportation hub with a new tram station, bus stop, and cycling facility, the enormous complex measures 155,000 square meters (over 1.6 million square feet), making it the third largest of its kind in France, outside of Paris.
"The masterplan of MEETT has been conceived as an active strip — ‘une bande active’ — forming a physical border between urban development and countryside, with the ambition of becoming the central spine for an integrated development of the city and the countryside," explains OMA's project description. "The program of the exhibition and convention centre is organized into three parallel bands: an [....
