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Have You Ever Been To A Cinema With Windows?

Have You Ever Been To A Cinema With Windows?

Tom Reid and Damien Mulvihill of Design Office speak about the recently opened Palace Cinemas at One Central Park, and the constraints of working in a space that was never designed to have a cinema.

Nothing is impossible. That may well have been the motto during the design and construction of Palace Cinemas at One Central Park, the famously sustainable, mixed-use building in Sydney designed by Jean Nouvel. Opened in 2013, the building went on to secure the Best Tall Building in the World Award in 2014, awarded by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

Design Office and Design and Beyond have collaborated on the recently opened cinemas within the building. A building that was never designed to have a cinema in it. While that certainly provided some hurdles to overcome, namely space constraints, it also added to the uniqueness of the project. “It allowed us to have such large expanses of glass, to have cinemas with windows in them,” says Damien Mulvihill, Joint Creative Director of Design Office.

On the bar design, “Palace really wanted a space that was hospitable and really comfortable,” adds Project Designer Tim Reid. And the resulting space evokes the glamour of Hollywood, a destination for Sydney-Siders whether or not you’ve come to see a movie.

See you there?

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park entrance

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park slow chair ronan erwan bouroullec

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park view

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park lighting

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park

Design Office Palace Cinemas One Central Park


Author:

Holly Cunneen was the editor of Habitus and has spent her time in the media writing about architecture, design and our local industry. With a firm view that “design has a shared responsibility to the individual as much as it does the wider community,” her personal and professional trajectory sees her chart the interests, accomplishments, and emerging patterns of behaviour within the architecture and design community.