The Palais des congrès de Montréal is a

convention centre A convention center (American and British English spelling differences, American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a Convention (meeting), convention, where individuals and groups ...

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's Quartier international at the north end of

Old Montreal Old Montreal (, ) is a historic List of neighbourhoods in Montreal, neighbourhood within the List of municipalities in Quebec, municipality of Montreal in the province of Quebec, Canada. Home to the Old Port of Montreal, the neighbourhood is b ...

. Its borough is Ville-Marie. Construction began in 1977 and completed in 1983; the Palais opened on 21 May 1983. Victor Prus designed the original building. Place-d'Armes station is located in the building with an underground connection to and from the convention centre. Some of the land for Palais des congrès was

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from

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, along with building of

Complexe Guy-Favreau Complexe Guy-Favreau is a twelve-storey building complex containing Canadian government offices built in 1984. It is located at 200 René Lévesque Boulevard in Ville-Marie, Montréal and extends over a six-acre plot of land, formerly part of ...

. Plans to expand the Palais began in 1997. It was expanded from 1999 to 2002, doubling its capacity from to . The expansion was designed by a consortium of three firms: Tétrault Parent Languedoc; Saia Barbarese Topouzanov; and Aedifica, with Hal Ingberg. This was the venue for the

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, which led to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

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