The RubyWorld 2009 conference was held at Matsue’s own conference center, Kunibiki Messe. It’s a cool place and I couldn’t resist taking a bunch of pictures.
(For context, see 島根 September — RubyWorld.)
Here’s a picture of the outside, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The main conference room was that big bulge at the right; it’s not obvious in the picture that it’s semi-circular. In my last write-up there’s a picture of Matsue Mayor Matsuura standing with his back to that window you can see stretching around it.
Anyhow, in that picture you can see that the building has a large transparent section in the middle; I got stuck in there taking pictures in every which direction. Here they are.
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It’s graceful and elegant and also fun, something architecture too rarely even tries for.
Practically speaking, the rooms worked just fine; decent acoustics and lights and A/V. If you happen to want to run a conference in off-the-beaten-track Japan, you could do a lot worse.
