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Title: OMA: Toulouse Exhibition & Convention Center
Author: BOUDET DOMINIQUE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/04/2021
Imprint: PARK BOOKS
Price: $95.00
Publishing status: Active
The new MEETT Toulouse exhibition and convention centre in the French city of Toulouse once
again demonstrates how a seemingly dull, functional task results in striking and refined
architecture if the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture OMA and its mastermind
Rem Koolhaas take care of it. The vast structure, covering ca 618 by 246 yards of ground, makes
for a spectacular spatial experience in its main exhibition hall that offers 484,376 square feet of
column-free floor space. OMA also took an unusual path with regard to the configuration and
transport connection of the entire complex. Rather than sealing even more ground with tarmac
for endless car parks, it concentrated them into a compact multi-storey parking garage at the
heart of the complex that also serves as a general traffic hub for MEETT Toulouse.
The book offers impressions of MEETT Toulouse’s enormous dimensions and the vast spaces it
provides through images taken by French photographer Marco Cappelletti. The volume is rounded
out with selected plans and concise texts on the particulars of the project.
61 colour, 28 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9783038602132
Dimension: 285mm X 330mm