The roughly 20,000-square-foot facility is planned as part of an
expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center, first built in 1971.
Renderings presented before a city committee illustrated how the new
building would connect the center’s existing South Hall with a proposed
football stadium.
Also planned is a new free-standing building, which could be used as a ballroom, located directly southeast of the new hall.
The
designs represent a dramatic re-fashioning of the city- owned
Convention Center, which is currently divided largely into two
buildings. Under the new plan, designed by international architecture
firm Populous, the center is one contiguous space.