Light House Cinema at Smithfield in Dublin by DTA Architects
In December 2006, the award-winning architectural practice, DTA Architects, headed up by Derek Tynan, was commissioned to remake Light House Cinema as a cultural hub in the large-scale urban regeneration development at Smithfield Market, on the west side of Dublin’s largest public plaza.
The architectural challenge of this project was to combine the insertion of four art house cinema volumes into existing basement voids with the creation of an informal circulation ‘route’ providing a dramatic experience for the public. The conceptual approach originated from the desire to express the individual cinema forms creating an increased tension between surface and void.
Light House cinema has been a bit of an institution in Dublin. It started showing Irish, independent, foreign-language, art house and classic cinema 20 years ago, closed in 1966, and re-opened this summer in its new, customized space. The four-screen, intimate art-house cinema includes a wonderful, inviting and open cafe that looks like something you’d see at an art museum, not a movie theater.
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October 3, 2008 - Category: Architecture, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 3
October 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Hi,
The rooms look nice, but I miss the big cinema rooms.
Now going to the movies is not that better than watching at home if one has a good system (not my case though).
I saw the Alien 2 on 70mm format and it was awsome.
Also saw Batman and Total Recall on large screens.That was “going to the cinema”.
Now with the studio sized rooms….arrgghh !
Have a great week,
José
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