Roeselare Knowledge Centre ARhus, Belgium

Knowledge Centre 4

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

Barbican Centre Cinema London building

Barbican Centre Cinema London interior seats

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: Dorset Architecture

Dorchester Cinema by Northern Building Design Associates – purpose-built 3 screen lifestyle cinema incorporating associated unique retail offer and support facilities, completed 2012

Newquay WTW Cinema, Cornwall Architecture

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

Metro Centre Cinema – Gateshead Building

Metro Centre Cinema Gateshead

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.

Lons le Saunier Médiathèque & Cinémas building

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.

BFI IMAX London South Bank Cinema

BFI IMAX London: South Bank Cinema

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

Hackney Picturehouse Cinema, City Screen

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.

Busan Cinema Center: Coop Himmelb(l)au

Busan Cinema Center South Korea by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

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

Filmoteca de Cataluña, Barcelona Film Theatre

Filmoteca de Cataluña, Barcelona Film Theatre

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.