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Watch Oscar-worthy movies in fine contemporary cinema design

Tickets? Check. Pop corn? Check. Eye-catching, ground-breaking, field-defining cinema design? Check, check, check. Nothing beats the thrill of going to the cinema when it comes to watching a film. Architecture and motion pictures have long gone hand-in-hand in producing the finest movie-going experiences; from architecture in film, and the key role the built environment plays in modern filmmaking, to architecture in which to watch film – cinema design. Here, and in celebration of the Oscars 2022 ceremony weekend, we tour some of the world’s best, recent examples of contemporary cinema architecture.

Contemporary cinema design

Teatro Vivo, São Paulo

Going to the cinema is an unrivalled experience of delving into a different world – a parallel reality of magic and fantasy. This is exactly the atmosphere that the Teatro Vivo, a new cinema architecture project in São Paulo, aims to achieve with its fresh design led by architect Greg Bousquet (who was with Triptyque Architecture before setting up his current practice AO-SP). Bousquet’s architecture team, which is currently based between Brazil and Portugal, had to work with an existing structure, as the movie theatre is located within Vivo, a mixed-use commercial building in the centre of São Paulo. ‘The challenge was to create a concept-theatre where we sought to value construction from pre-existing structures, which were left in evidence [while we provided] innovation through coatings, colours, textures, and lighting,’ the architects recall. Read more

Beta, Ho Chi Minh City

The new Beta, a 1,000-seater Vietnamese cinema located on the ground floor of…