World Trade Center Boston


Located in Boston's historic Seaport District, the World Trade Center is the premier exhibition, conference and event facility in New England featuring a 120,000 square foot exhibition hall, 418 fixed seat amphitheater, and 35,000 square feet of conference and meeting space.

Located near Boston's historic waterfront, this site is adjacent to the World Trade Center Conference Center . The area is only a few blocks away from Boston's major highways, including Interstate 90 and 93, making this location convenient to both downtown Boston as well as all surrounding areas.

The World Trade Center project accomplished the renovation and conversion of a 70-year-old former Commonwealth Pier landmark structure into an 800,000-square-foot facility that now houses exhibition space and offices for high-tech and international trade companies. Special attention was paid to the preservation of the headhouse, an historic concrete, steel, and stone structure. The renovation incorporated the structural needs of a large financial institution (Fidelity) and a TV production studio. The design accommodated floor loading requirements for an extensive computer system, including multiple emergency generators and corresponding fuel storage space. It also included structural protection of computer floors against water damage and structural reinforcement to support dense filing systems, folding partitions and fireproof safes.

The timber-pile-supported Commonwealth Pier structure had experienced settlement of up to two feet and lateral movement of up to one foot. In addition, portions of the quay wall had become unstable. The solution was to remove the existing fill to depths of as much as ten feet along the quay wall and up to five feet at the center, and to replace it with an equal volume of low-density cellular concrete. Weidlinger Associates recommended the lightweight concrete after studying the settlement behavior and stability of the pier foundations.

The designers of the Boston World Trade Center appropriately eschewed pared-down modernism for a more multi-cultural approach. Decorative elements were employed but made modern. Fin-like brackets, clad in GKD's Futura 3110, appear to support deep Polynesian overhangs

The largest consumer wine show in the United States fills Boston's cavernous World Trade Center once again.

15th Annual in 2006 - The largest consumer wine event in the country is in BOSTON ! Wine enthusiasts can visit over 450 wineries from 18 countries. The region's top chefs prepare their specialties and offer their recipes as well as a sample. Enjoy the treats provided by The Great Cheeses of NE and others....the perfect compliment to the wines you sample.

Connoisseurs can choose samples from among 1800 wines offered by 450 wineries or enjoy demonstrations by any of 20 different chefs on two stages. US vintners are most heavily represented, but some Australian, French and Spanish houses can be expected as well.

A grand dinner on Saturday night and brunch on Sunday provide opportunities to explore food-and-wine combinations, while a series of seminars cover all manner of vinous topics. The only killjoy amidst all this festivity would seem to be the state of Massachusetts, for no one under 21 can attend - not even infants in strollers.