It comprises a hotel as well Here?s another building that incorporates an abstract volume into an enormous glass structure à la the recently opened European Union office in Brussels. Located in Rome and designed by international firm Studio Fuksas, the New Rome/EUR Convention Hall and Hotel comprises several structures including a hotel tower and a convention hall contained in a glass cube within which conference rooms are seemingly ?suspended? within a cloud-like complex.
Called the Theca, the steel-and-glass box houses the organically-shaped ?Cloud,? which takes its shape from a ?metal skeleton? clad in a curtain measuring 15,000-square-meters (161,000 square feet) of advanced-membrane fiberglass and silicone. Contained within the Cloud is an auditorium accommodating 1,800 people, snack points, and support rooms. Below that are parking facilities. Including the 439-room hotel (housed in a building called the Blade), the center, the largest building to be completed in Rome in over 50 years, has a total building area of 55,000 square meters (592 square feet). Head to Dezeen for more.

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