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 about Secret Cinema has created a new way to experience film, says founder Fabien Riggall
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 about UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris
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 about New photographs offer a look inside a modernist theatre in Le Corbusier's Chandigarh
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 about Matt Lambros' After the Final Curtain photographs show America's forgotten movie theatres
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 about Scott Whitby Studio transforms shipping container into "caution cinema"
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 about Snøhetta adds crinkled stainless-steel extension to 1960s museum in Norway
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 about Snøhetta's King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture nears completion
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 about One Plus Partnership's cinema interior resembles the aftermath of an explosion
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 about Cast-concrete Galway Picture Palace by dePaor Architects stands behind a Georgian terrace
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 about Wes Anderson-designed Bar Luce takes its cues from old Milanese landmarks and cafes
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 about Jonathan Dunn converts Victorian school house into cinema for an English town
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 about Black-and-white Hong Kong cinema interior evokes "old movies"
Dutch studio Archiview gave this planetarium-like cinema in Groningen a spiralling dome structure, which invites comparisons with hats, eyeballs and UFOs (+ slideshow). More about Cinema meets planetarium at Archiview's Infoversum theatre
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 about Indonesian open-air cinema by Csutoras & Liando built from scaffolding and plywood
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 about Rojkind Arquitectos renovates Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute
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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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 about Ciné 32 by Encore Heureux
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 about Centipede Cinema by Colin Fournier, Marysia Lewandowska and NEON
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 about Busan Cinema Centre by Coop Himmelb(l)au
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 about Stairway Cinema by OH.NO.SUMO