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The Palais des congres de Paris in Paris, France is a concert venue and convention center. It can be found at the Porte Maillot, 17th arrondissement. Guillaume Gillet, a French architect, built the venue. It was inaugurated in 1974. Bois de Boulogne is located near the venue, as well as the wealthy Neuilly-sur-Seine neighborhood. Porte Maillot is the nearest metro station and RER station. These stations can be reached via the lower floors of the building.
The convention center is situated on the Plaine des Sablons. It was once occupied by the bastion No. 51 on the Thiers wall, the Luna-Park and the Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Compassion de Paris.
After the destruction of the Thiers wall fortifications around 1920, this wasteland was used for the installation of temporary summer amusement parks. Even after the war, it housed a few government buildings. The construction of the Boulevard Périphérique, parallel to it caused a complete redevelopment of the Parisian area.[1]
The Hotel Concorde Lafayette and the convention centre were built on the former site of the Luna Park in 1970. The small Notre-Dame-de-Compassion church there, built by Louis-Philippe in memory of his deceased son, was dismantled and then rebuilt stone by stone, a hundred meters further. The buildings were inaugurated by Henri Guibout on February 28, 1974.
An extension was carried out between 1997 and 1999. The imposing sloping facade, which dates from this rehabilitation, is the work of architect Christian de Portzamparc.