Washington Convention Center (Washington, D.C.
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- Work cat.: U.S. Cong. House. Comm. on Government Reform. Subcomm. on the District of Columbia. Status of construction of the Convention Center, hearing ... 2003:p. 1 (new District of Columbia Convention Center will consist of 2.3 million sq. ft. of space) p. 11 (new District of Columbia (D.C.) Convention Center, authorized by the Washington Convention Center Authority Act of 1994) p. 28 (new Washington Convention Center)
- Washington Convention Center web site, May 19, 2003(new Center sits between 7th and 9th and N Street and Mt. Vernon Place; address: 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW Washington, DC 20001)
- Washington post, Mar. 30, 2003, via WWW, Apr. 2, 2003:p. C01 (new Washington Convention Center, at Mount Vernon Square)
- Phone call to Washington Convention Center Authority, Apr. 2, 2003(no name change from the old to the new Washington Convention Center; located at: 801 Mt. Vernon Place)
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a 2.3-million-square-foot (210,000 m2) convention center located in Washington, D.C., owned and operated by the city's convention arm, Events DC. Designed in a joint venture by the Atlanta-based architecture firm Tvsdesign, Washington, D.C.–based architects Devrouax & Purnell Architects Planners PC and Mariani and Associates, the convention center is located in a superblock bounded by Mount Vernon Square and 7th, 9th and N streets, N.W. It is served by the Mount Vernon Square station on the Yellow and Green lines of the Washington Metro. It was completed in 2003. The center is noted for its extensive permanent collection of contemporary art, the largest of any convention center in the United States and one of the largest public art collections in Washington, D.C., outside of a museum, including works by Sam Gilliam, Sol LeWitt, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Sarah Sze, and Carrie Mae Weems.
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