SMX Convention Center Manila

SMX Convention Center Manila occupies Seashell Lane in the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay, on Manila Bay beside SM Mall of Asia. It opened on 5 November 2007 at a cost of 1.8 billion pesos as the country's largest privately run convention centre and the first venue under the SMX brand. It contains four exhibition halls on the ground level with a combined 9,130 sqm and capacity for up to 10,240 people, five function rooms on the second level totalling 7,100 sqm and seating up to 9,408, and 14 meeting rooms of 950 sqm combined for 12 to 112 people; the operator quotes 17,170 sqm of leasable space and a total enclosed area of 46,647 sqm. Designed by Arquitectonica with Jose Siao Ling and Associates as architect of record, it was built as a milestone of the Philippine green architecture movement, with lighting, air-conditioning and waste management planned for efficiency. A 400-car basement car park is entered from Coral Way, truck bays sit along Ocean Drive, and mezzanine bridgeways connect to SM Mall of Asia's south parking building, S Maison at Conrad Manila, MOA Square and National University MOA. It is the regular home of Manila FAME, the Manila International Book Fair, Manufacturing Technology World and Cosplay Mania, and hosted the gala dinner of the 31st ASEAN Summit in 2017. LRT-1 Baclaran and EDSA stations are the nearest rail links, EDSA Carousel buses serve the complex, and Ninoy Aquino International Airport is a short drive south.