Pyramids are not just in Egypt but in Antalya too !!

Glass Pyramid Sabancı Congress and Exhibition Center / Cam Piramit - Sabancı Kongre ve Fuar Merkezi

The Pyramid at night.The Glass Pyramid Sabancı Congress and Exhibition Center, mostly abbreviated as Glass Pyramid, (Turkish: Cam Piramit Sabancı Kongre ve Fuar Merkezi) is a multi-purpose convention complex located in Antalya, Turkey. The two floor building consists of five halls, the largest having a 2,400-seat capacity, an open-air 15,000 m² exhibition area and various other facilities. The center was built by Sabanci Foundation, and its usage rights have been transferred to the Municipality of Antalya. It was commissioned on October 1, 1997 during the 34th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

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Architecture

The architects Levent Aksüt and Yaşar Marulyalı designed the pyramid-shaped metal and glass building, surrounded by round-shaped decorative ponds.[1] Situated inside the Hasan Subaşı Cultural Park, the complex with a total closed area of 9,000 m² on two floors, each floor with 4,500 m² area, has access from four sides.

The convention center has a space frame roof over the main hall on the ground floor, which is 23 m high and is covered with 5,710 m² of colored titanium blue insulating glass.

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Kongre Merkezi yurdumuzdaki en büyük eksikliklerden biri ulusal veya uluslararası kongrelerin yapılabileceği büyük kongre saraylarının sayısının yetersiz olmasıdır. Devlet ve özel sektör bu konudaki eksikliği son zamanlarda görmüş ve bu konuya yatırım yapmaya başlamışlardır. Türkiye'deki en tanınmış kongre merkezi projesi olan "Sabancı Kongre ve Fuar Merkezi-Cam Piramit" projesi UMO Mimarlıktarafından gerçekleştirilmiştir. "Cam Piramit" projesi ile UMO Mimarlık tasarım dalında, Uskon uygulamacı dalında 1999 yılında Avrupa Çelik Birliği Ödülünü almışlardır.

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