Dezeen archive: after publishing a herringbone-clad cinema in the south of France earlier this week (top right), we've filled our latest archive with all the unconventional cinemas featured on Dezeen. See all our stories about cinema design »
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Encore Heureux
This timber-clad cinema in the south of France was designed by architects Encore Heureux to evoke both the arched facades of art deco picture houses and the herringbone walls of local tobacco-drying sheds (+ slideshow). More »
Centipede Cinema by Colin Fournier,
Marysia Lewandowska and NEON
The only way to watch a film at this unconventional cinema in Guimarães, Portugal, is by manoeuvring your upper body into one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles. More »
Busan Cinema Centre
by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a film and theatre centre in South Korea with a steel and glass cantilever that's wider than the wings of an Airbus A380 (+ slideshow). More »
Stairway Cinema
by OH.NO.SUMO
Architectural collective OH.NO.SUMO have tucked a miniature cinema into the steps of a building on a busy street in Auckland, New Zealand. More »
Cineteca Matadero by
Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo
Slideshow: Huge glowing baskets surround the staircases of this former slaughterhouse in Madrid that Spanish architects Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo have converted into a cinema. More »
Seven-screen pavilion by OMA for Kanye West
Kanye West's first short film was shown on seven cinema screens surrounding the audience inside a pyramid designed by architects OMA at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. More »
The Richmond Weekender by Right Angle
and Foolscap
Melbourne design studios Right Angle and Foolscap have created a temporary canteen, market and cinema in a former piano factory that until recently was the home of Australian television broadcaster Channel 9. More »
Designed in Hackney: The Floating Cinema
by Studio Weave
Designed in Hackney: last summer Hackney architects Studio Weave turned an old narrow boat into a floating cinema that toured the canals of east London. More »
Curtain Call by Ron Arad
at the Roundhouse
Ron Arad's cylindrical cinema screen made of 5600 silicon rods opens at the Roundhouse in London today. More »
Folly for a Flyover
by Assemble
Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. More »
Shadowboxing exhibition by Slowscape Collective

London designers Slowscape Collective created this temporary cinema at the Royal College of Art in London from faceted planes of oriented strand board. More »
Multi Mill by NL Architects

Dutch studio NL Architects have won a competition to design a stage intended to sit on a breakwater in the river IJ, Amsterdam. More »
Rio Cinema by 1:2:3 and Kristoffer Sundin
Mobile performance venue by Various Architects

Oslo-based studio Various Architects have designed a mobile venue for a five-screen cinematic performance, to be set up in different locations around the world. More »





