悉尼展覽中心是澳大利亞第一個大型展覽中心，它是達靈港開發(fā)區(qū)三大公共建筑之一。該開發(fā)區(qū)和悉尼中心商業(yè)區(qū)相鄰。展覽中心為慶祝1988 年澳大利亞建國二百周年而建。它由五個互相連通的大廳組成，每個大廳5 000m2。

該中心的設(shè)計構(gòu)思主要由四個目的形成：第一要繼承展覽中心的傳統(tǒng)，歷史上展覽中心的結(jié)構(gòu)，都很新穎，例如早年Joseph Paxton 設(shè)計的倫敦水晶宮用預制鐵框架和玻璃建成。第二，要與旁邊的新公園建立起聯(lián)系。第三，表現(xiàn)歷史港口海洋主題。最后，它的跨度要達到100m，但建筑的比例不應(yīng)太大。

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The Sydney Exhibition Centre was the first major exhibition centre to be built in Australia. It comprises five interconnected halls, each of 5,000 square metres. It is one of the three public buildings undertaken by the practice in the Darling Harbour Redevelopment Area, adjacent to Sydney‘s central business district and constructed to celebrate Australian‘s 1988 Bicentenary. The concept for the centre principally arose from four objectives. The first was to continue the tradition of structurally innovative exhibition centres dating back to Joseph Paxton‘s steel, wood and glass at Crystal Palace in London. The second was to establish an integral relationship with a new park stretched along one frontage. Thirdly, it sought to convey a distinctive maritime theme conducive to an historic port, and finally it needed to achieve 100 metre spans without resulting in a massively scaled building. The total project, from design concept to completion, took only 32 months.

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