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Vienna-based Delugan Meissl Associated Architects is expert at devising buildings that appear to be in motion; their best-known, the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, looks like it could leave a sports car in the dust. Which explains the excitement surrounding their latest project, the newly opened Eye Film Institute (shown) in Amsterdam. An aerodynamic structure that would stand out anywhere, the motion-picture museum is a particular sensation in this city of stolid brick buildings. According to partner Dietmar Feistel, the goal of the design—which nods to the charged compositions of Zaha Hadid and Austria’s most influential firm, Coop Himmelb(l)au—wasn’t to achieve a specific form so much as a feeling, as he puts it, “of being suspended between the real world and the world of cinema.” Thanks to the Eye’s glass-enclosed main floor, says Feistel, “you can spend time after a screening in an environment where you don’t have to confront the harsh realities of life.” eyefilm.nl

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Picture at:
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/05/eye-film-institute-amsterdam
 

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Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 05-28-2013, 11:39 PM:
 

Hold on, all you folks in wheelchairs...it's gonna be a BUMPY ride!
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-29-2013, 01:15 AM:
 
Maybe it's just because I am an old fuddy duddy but that thing doesn't remind me in the least of "the world of cinema."

On the contrary, it reminds me of somebody dropping the original model of the building on the floor and breaking it, then putting it back together incorrectly.
 

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Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 05-29-2013, 01:21 AM:
 
Mike, see...you get it. You get the "poetry." Like they said, it's supposed to look like moooovement. And you pinned it -- it looks like he dropped the model on the floor.

I'm a bit more cynical...to me it just looks like architects on crack.
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 05-29-2013, 05:47 AM:
 
Not a theater but not your every day municipal building -- Edinburgh, Scotland. Looks like a file cabinet.


 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 05-29-2013, 07:37 AM:
 
Martin,
Looks like alot of the special venue theaters I've done. Cool looking inside and out! For 45 minutes you're immersed in your own world
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 05-29-2013, 12:10 PM:
 
Here's someone's top ten, which includes classics like the Fox in Tampa, Fl, and a real whack one in S. Korea

http://www.thecredits.org/2013/05/ten-of-the-worlds-best-movie-theaters/
 

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Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 05-29-2013, 03:32 PM:
 
At first glance at the picture I was reminded of the first venue where I properly ran 35mm, a university lecture theatre opened in 1970 (Google streetview).

This has a two level glass foyer with the auditorium, and tiny stage, overhanging the rest of the building.

Having found some more information on the building it is a multi-screen complex.



Cinemas and theatres require large windowless spaces, it can be difficult to minimise their visual impact.

quote: Rick Raskin

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Not a theater but not your every day municipal building -- Edinburgh, Scotland. Looks like a file cabinet.

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