Istanbul Congress Center
Situated adjacent to Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage, it is a multi-level complex, which was built to host the 2009 IMF and World Bank Group Annual Meeting. The building has a foyer at ground level, several meeting halls in different sizes in five underground levels and a car park in the lowest two levels.
Facilities
At the first basement level B1, there are seven meeting halls of a total area 509 m (5,480 sq ft) and total seating capacity of 488 people. The congress center's biggest meeting space with an area of 3,028 m (32,590 sq ft) and 2,192 to 3,705-person seating capacity, the Harbiye Hall, occupies three levels. Its entrance is situated at level B2. The level B2 hosts another eight halls in sizes ranging between 87–1,300 m (940–13,990 sq ft) with seating capacities from 104 to 1,404. Four of these halls are divisible in two or three smaller spaces by soundproof panels. The basement level B3 holds a total of 90 smaller rooms for workshop meetings in the range of 20–100 m (220–1,080 sq ft). The levels B4 and B5 are exhibition halls in the sizes of 4,278 m (46,050 sq ft) and 5,753 m (61,920 sq ft) with 4.00 m (13.12 ft) ceiling height as well as another bigger one of 6,065 m (65,280 sq ft) with 7.20 m (23.6 ft).
The levels B6 and B7 are designed as car park capable of 850 vehicles in total. The center is connected with a passage to Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center across the street, which is closed to traffic.
Notable events
- 2009 IMF and World Bank Group Annual Meeting
- 2013 Turkey Innovation Week
- 2014 7th World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care
- 2015 ABU TV Song Festival
- 2015 ACI AIRPORT EXCHANGE, hosted by İGA Havalimanı İşletmesi A.Ş
- 2023 Ethereum Devconnect, hosted by the DevCon team
See also
References
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- ^ "Additional services-Parking". ICC Istanbul. Archived from the original on 2014-01-03. Retrieved 2013-12-11. |
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- ^ "PICC 2014 Istanbul". Eventegg.
- ^ "ACI AIRPORT EXCHANGE". ACI EUROPE.
- ^ "Devconnect is back! See you this year in Istanbul". Ethereum Foundation Blog.