Concourse
A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space.
Examples
Examples of concourses include:
- Meeting halls
- Universities
- Railway stations
- Conference centers
- Hotels
- Airport terminals
- Shopping malls or portions of shopping malls which are often called "shopping concourses"
- Sports arenas and stadiums
- Sixth Form Common rooms
Gallery
Outdoor concourses
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Earnley Concourse, West Sussex, 2009[1]
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Concourse outside City Hall, London.
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Concourse outside Wembley Arena, 2008
- ^ This local village name for its common land may imply an early usage of the word, concourse.
Public transport concourses
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Leeds City bus station concourse, 2007
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Leeds railway station concourse, 2009
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Liverpool Street concourse, 2009
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Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 4 concourse, 2006
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London Paddington station concourse, The Lawn, 2009
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St Pancras shopping concourse during Christmas, 2011
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St Pancras entrance concourse, 2009
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Waterloo Station former Eurostar check-in concourse, 2009
Car park concourses
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Braehead car park concourse, 2008
Contemporary usage
More recently, "concourse" is often used to refer to a situation where people come together in online presence, even if they don't come together in real physical life. An example of such an online community is the IEEE Student Concourse, as well as various online shopping concourses.
See also
References
External links
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