The World Forum (originally known as Nederlands Congresgebouw and formerly Nederlands Congres Centrum and World Forum Convention Center) is a concert venue and

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, near the buildings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the

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and one of the administrative offices of the

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History

It was opened in 1969 and was designed in the Dutch functionalism style by architect

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. His son, Hans Oud, completed the construction after his father's death in 1963. In 2006 a part of the convention center, including the ''Statenhal'', was demolished to make place for the Europol building. Many concerts and festivals had been held there before, such as the annual North Sea Jazz Festival, and the Eurovision Song Contests of

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and 1980. Between 2006 and 2010 The Hague Jazz festival was held at the World Forum (to replace the moved North Sea Jazz festival, which is now held in

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). Since 2011 the festival is held in the Kyocera Stadium.''The Hague Jazz'' official site
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;Nederlands Congresgebouw *

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– 20 to 21 August 1972 * Eurovision Song Contest –

and 1980 * North Sea Jazz Festival – 1976 till 2005 * National Song Festival – 22 February 1978 (won by Harmony with their song ''

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– 14 November 1978 (their final concert) * Eric Clapton – 24 February 1990 *

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– 23 to 27 August 1990 * Toto – 30 November 1990 * a-ha – 4 April 1991 ;Nederlands Congres Centrum *

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– 27 May 1995 *

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– 9 December 1996 * Sarah Brightman – 22 May 1999 * Laura Pausini – 18 January 2002 *Laura Pausini – 13 March 2005 ;World Forum Convention Center * The Hague Jazz – 2006 till 2010 *

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– 31 March 2009 * Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit – 18 November 2010 *

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(THIMUN) – Annually ;World Forum *

AnimeCon - Anime Convention Animecon is the name of several different anime conventions: * AnimeCon (Brazil) in Brazil * Animecon (Finland) in Finland * Animecon (Netherlands) in the Netherlands * Animecon (Slovakia) in Slovakia * AnimeCon in San Jose, California in 1991 (whi ...

– Annually * Nuclear Security Summit – 24 to 25 March 2014 * Nick Cave – 16 to 17 May 2015

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* of the World Forum * of AnimeCon {{Authority control Convention centres in the Netherlands Buildings and structures in The Hague Tourist attractions in South Holland

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