Carmody Groarke creates new entrance to BFI Southbank
Carmody Groarke has refurbished the British Film Institute's home on the South Bank in London, with an illuminated new entrance canopy and revamped interior. More
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Plantea transforms defunct erotic cinema into contemporary art-nouveau theatre
Interior design studio Plantea looked to art nouveau and retro Americana for the interiors of this multi-purpose theatre in Madrid, which was formerly an adult-film cinema. More
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Secret Cinema has created a new way to experience film, says founder Fabien Riggall
Secret Cinema has turned the experience of watching films into a social event, by transporting viewers into the worlds of cult-classic movies like Blade Runner and Moulin Rouge. In this exclusive interview, founder Fabien Riggall explains how he curates a unique setting for every screening. More
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UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris
UNStudio has won a competition to design a new cinema and cultural centre with weathering steel walls and green roofs as part of BIG's EuropaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. More
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New photographs offer a look inside a modernist theatre in Le Corbusier's Chandigarh
Neelam Theatre, one of three cinemas built as part of Le Corbusier's construction of Chandigarh, is revealed in these new images by British photographer Edmund Sumner. More
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Matt Lambros' After the Final Curtain photographs show America's forgotten movie theatres
In the age of the multiplex cinema, photographer Matt Lambros has scoped out the older, lavishly decorated movie theatres to capture what was left behind after the credits rolled for the last time. More
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Scott Whitby Studio transforms shipping container into "caution cinema"
Scott Whitby Studio has used over 1,000 foam pyramids to transform a shipping container into a pop-up cinema where port workers can be taught vital health and safety information. More
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Snøhetta adds crinkled stainless-steel extension to 1960s museum in Norway
Snøhetta has extended the Lillehammer Art Museum and Cinema in Norway with a cantilevering cube covered in a layer of crinkled and polished stainless steel. More
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Snøhetta's King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture nears completion
New photographs reveal the pebble-shaped forms of Snøhetta's cultural centre in Saudi Arabia, which is nearing completion ahead of its slated opening date in 2017. More
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One Plus Partnership's cinema interior resembles the aftermath of an explosion
Inside Festival 2015: One Plus Partnership co-founder Virginia Lung explains how the interior design firm created a cinema that looks like a disaster scene from a science-fiction movie (+ movie). More
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Cast-concrete Galway Picture Palace by dePaor Architects stands behind a Georgian terrace
This moulded concrete cinema by Irish studio dePaor Architects is built on the site of a Georgian merchant's house in Galway, west Ireland (+ slideshow). More
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Wes Anderson-designed Bar Luce takes its cues from old Milanese landmarks and cafes
Filmmaker Wes Anderson has ventured into interior design, with a bar intended to recreate the atmosphere of Milanese cafes inside the OMA-designed Fondazione Prada in Milan. More
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Jonathan Dunn converts Victorian school house into cinema for an English town
A collection of old school buildings in Rye, East Sussex, has been converted into a cinema and arts centre with the addition of a shed-like extension (+ slideshow). More
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Black-and-white Hong Kong cinema interior evokes "old movies"
Inside Festival 2014: Virginia Lung of interior design firm One Plus Partnership explains why she used a palette of black and white for the interior of the Cine Times cinema in Hong Kong (+ movie). More
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Cinema meets planetarium at Archiview's Infoversum theatre
Dutch studio Archiview gave this planetarium-like cinema in Groningen a spiralling dome structure, which invites comparisons with hats, eyeballs and UFOs (+ slideshow). More
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Indonesian open-air cinema by Csutoras & Liando built from scaffolding and plywood
This temporary open-air cinema in Jakarta, designed by Indonesian studio Csutoras & Liando, was erected in just 10 days using scaffolding, plywood and industrial fabric (+ slideshow). More
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Rojkind Arquitectos renovates Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute
An aluminium canopy speckled with triangular perforations shelters the space between old and new buildings at Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute, recently renovated by Rojkind Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More
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Dezeen archive: cinema design
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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Ciné 32 by 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 chevron-patterned walls of local tobacco-drying sheds (+ slideshow). More
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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
