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Dakar is the capital and largest city in Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the western most city on the African mainland. Cinematography is the art or science of motion picture photography
Dutch architecture firm Snelder Architects provides the design of the largest multiplex cinema in the Netherlands, in the centre of the city of Utrecht.
Design: The Purple Ink Studio. The structure is situated at a major city junction in a dense urban fabric. Design brief: A contemporary face-lift to an old structure so as to regenerate the landmark. The project was to be planned for quick and easy construction to enable running of all three screens for the forthcoming movie releases.
Design: be baumschlager eberle. A key project in the heart of the Belgian city of Roeselare is the renewal of the inner-city nucleus formed by Noordstraat, Ooststraat and Henri Horriestraat
“Set on an historic waterfront site, this is an important cultural facility. This building embraces theatre, cinema and performance, reflecting and encouraging creativity.”
Excitement is mounting in the Highland Perthshire town of Aberfeldy as the launch of the restored Birks Cinema approaches on 19th April with a Willy Wonka type golden ticket event.
Major structural alteration to facilitate the formation of 2 art house theatres. The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions.
Dorchester Cinema by Northern Building Design Associates – purpose-built 3 screen lifestyle cinema incorporating associated unique retail offer and support facilities, completed 2012
Newquay cinema is Cornwall’s first digital cinema – capable of showing 3D films. The cinema capacity is 650, across four screens. New build 4 screen cinema designed for the premier independent cinema exhibition. Construction Period – 1 year, opened April 2011
Designed to be the principle destination venue within the leisure quarter of one of Europe s largest shopping centres. Seating capacity in excess of 2750 across 12 screens and the 400 seat IMAX Theatre and currently one of the most successful cinemas in Europe.
Next to the mediathèque, three existing buildings – the church, the Hotel de Balay and the wall of the prison – formed an impressive and severe urban setting made up of simple lines, great mineral surfaces and imposing masses.
The building is situated on the edge of Parc de Bercy and was originally meant to be the home of the American Centre. This post-modern building was designed by Frank Gehry and opened its doors in 1993.
BFI IMAX screen 20 metres high x 26 metres wide
Largest UK cinema screen
11,600-watt digital surround-sound system
Reputedly most sophisticated motion-picture projection system in the world
“Dream” is the design concept of the Luoyang Wanda International Cinema. The fifth generation film director in China – Yi-Mou Zhang has once said that: “Movies are dreams.”
The former Ocean building has been transformed into a 4,000 square metre venue with four cinema screens, a café, upper level bars and facilities for community based organisations.
Largest cantilever roof in the world: Busan Cinema Center building, South Korea, by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: new home of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) – multifunctional theater, cinemas, restaurants, cafés
About the form… The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains. In the old town, my building sets out to express itself as pure structure—no cladding, no finishes.
The Cinema Park Building was erected in the 1950s from plans by the modernist architect Franc Novak. Slovenia architecture design by Studio Kalamar Architects.
