An exemplary setting for exceptional events, the Palais des Congrès is located at the crossroads of Parisian life. Since its creation by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1974, it has played an important role in the economic life and cultural development of the French capital.
Expanded and renovated in 1999, the Palais des Congrès is woven into the texture of Paris' urban life, adding shadow and light, stability and movement, symmetry and asymmetry, black-and-white and colour, all balancing each other out according to the "poetry of contrasts". This balance gives the Palais des Congrès de Paris its identity and contributes to its international renown.