Kyoto Minami Kaikan Movie Theater / Tato Architects

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Area
Area of this architecture project

Area: 
721 m²

Year
Completion year of this architecture project

Year: 

2022

Photographs

Lead Architect:

Yo Shimada

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Text description provided by the architects. This project is the relocation and renovation of a long-established movie theater that had marked 55 years of history in Kyoto. Its new home is a building constructed as a bank in 1993. The question was how to convey, at once, the continuity of the “Kyoto Minami Kaikan” held in the city’s memory and the fact that it had been made new—in an age when films can be watched in the palm of one’s hand.