A new take on convention centers

The Fiera Milano, aka the Milan Trade Fair, does a new take on the traditional convention center. The new is actually the old - designing the convention center around traditional public space schemes, but in a contemporary way. Paul Goldberger reports in the New Yorker. It's still a huge enormous convention center, but certainly not as grim as they come.

Many more pictures courtesy of Mocoloco. (Obviously, the contemporary design world caught early on...speaking for myself, urbanism folks are laggards.)