Many of Hong Kong’s residential communities are served by Civic Centres, which integrate many different services for the local population. Located in New Kowloon, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre is twenty years old and is the oldest of... 
Within the triangle formed by Leicester, Peterborough and Northampton, in the East Midlands region of England, there sits a town with an unlikely demographic, shaped by its industrial past. During the 1930s, Corby attracted so...
A three hundred and eighty million Euro pint of Guinness on the edge of the River Liffey? Dublin’s dazzling new Convention Centre (CCD) opened on 7th September 2010. The iconic glass atrium, locally referred to as an oversized...
Borgerforeningen is one of those awkward compound nouns beloved of the Skandic/Germanic north European languages. A literal translation from the Danish approximates to Civil Association, but inevitably it’s much more than that....
The appetite for cultural events is, it seems, no barrier for the citizens of An Dong in Southern Korea. Not a destination name that trips off the lips of international travellers, it is nevertheless one of the main centres for...
Peering over NY's Hudson River skyline, a massive enclosure of glass and steel houses a playground for groundbreaking technical creativity and multimedia artistry. The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is as...
It seems the inventive people of North West England, Lancashire in particular, are an imaginative lot. Most of the defunct small provincial cinemas in this region have spent the last forty years slowly decaying as bingo loses...
Home to Sweden's oldest University founded in 1340, this charming city just sixty-five kms north of Stockholm now boasts the nation's newest Concert House.
To enter Glasgow City Chambers is to transcend the bland sameness of cosmopolitan existence. The entrance hall will fool you; decorative floor tiles and vaulting ceilings give only the most muted hint to what lies beyond.
The Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH) has always staged a wide variety of events since it opened in the late 1970s. Besides the obvious conferences that form its mainstay, the largest hall, Hall One, with a capacity of three thousand...
Mannheim, the second largest city of the German federal state Baden-Württemberg, is situated at the junction of the rivers Rhine and Neckar and, together with the neighbouring cities of Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, they create a...
In spite of being the "largest concert and congress centre in the Nordic countries" Tampere Hall is sited within half a kilometre of the city centre. Built in 1987, the hall is owned by the City and managed by the ebullient...
Nine years in construction and built at a cost of 2 billion US dollars, the Seoul Arts Centre is at the very heart of Korean cultural activity. Designed by architect Kim Seokcheol, the centre houses five separate arts...
Lying between Tokyo and Narita International Airport, the Makuhari Messe exhibition complex is ideally situated for its role as one of Japan's leading business and entertainment destinations. As with so many Expo centres around...
When the "Festhalle Rosengarten" opened in Mannheim in 1903 the stage could accommodate 1000 singers. In those days it was the largest hall of the German Empire and an impressive masterpiece of the fashionable Art Nouveau period....
