News about venues for special events, including hotels, restaurants, catering halls, banquet halls, museums, cultural institutions and dedicated event spaces.
ADELAIDE ZOO
ADDRESS: Frome Road, Adelaide, 5000 South Australia
WEB SITE: www.adelaidezoo.com.au
TOOTH & CLAW: Located outside Adelaide, this animal refuge sits on the Torrens River. More than 3,400 animals live at the 20-acre zoo; the Animal...
Chicago's new James hotel offers 7,000 square feet of meeting space on one floor. The 1,000-square-foot James Club features game tables, a plasma TV, a formal dining room and a bar. Separate event spaces the library and the den can host 50 and 40...
Nobu Waikiki opened this week in the Waikiki Parc Hotel in Honolulu. The 7,500-square-foot space accommodates 250 guests. Decorated with a walnut finish and onyx paneling, the bar, lounge, sushi bar and private dining room design motifs include s...
The Hotel Vitale in San Francisco introduces upgraded meeting facilities. Both videoconferencing and Webcasting services are available in-room. Other event spaces include a 3,000-square-foot patio at the Americano restaurant. Via a partnership wi...
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is situated next to Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, Colo. The venue is in the midst of a $28.4 million expansion. Due for completion in August, the FAC will offer 132,286 square feet of event space. The new s...
Melbourne, Australia's 984-foot Eureka Tower opened its doors to the public this month with Skydeck 88. The residential tower's top floor now has such haute activities as a moving glass cube called the Edge, which projects 9 feet out of the build...
Cellar, a St. Louis wine storage facility, has announced the opening of its tasting room. The space accommodates 20 seated guests or 50 standing. The staff conducts wine tastings and seminars on wine-related topics, and selects wine pairings for ...
Legendary restaurant hotspot Morton's, which regularly hosts Hollywood's elite for dinner and is the site of Vanity Fair magazine's star-studded post-Oscar bash, is set to close its doors at the end of the year. British hotelier Nick Jones plans...
Located in Minneapolis, the new Westin Minneapolis is housed in the Farmers and Mechanics Bank building, built in 1941. The 214-room hotel retains some original features of the structure, including a marble staircase and a 34-foot-high vaulted ce...
The recently renovated Redbrick Gallery in Beverly, Mass., offers 1,500 square feet of gallery space. For larger events, the cafe and lounge double the space for guests. Up to 1,000 attendees can enjoy the current art exhibition, or the walls can...