Europalaces Cinema, Amiens
This movie theatre complex offers a seating capacity of 2,750 with 12 screens. During the day, it looks like a floating structure, with an undulating metal façade gleaming in the sunlight. At night, the skin becomes translucent so that passers-by can see the activity going on inside the building from the outside. This creates a rhythmic play on surfaces and on light and shadow. As a site for projections, the venue itself provides the city with a new movie screen, in the manner of a magic lantern.
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Program
Multiplex theater of 12 screens, 2700 seats, 1 commercial area, 1 parking (500 spaces on three levels)
Client
Europalaces Picardie
Project team
Chaix & Morel et Associés, Paris
Philippe Chaix, Jean-Paul Morel, Rémy Van Nieuwenhove, Walter Grasmug
with Frédéric Carrasco, Stéphane Monfort
and Sébastien Carlier, Gonzalo Galindo-Bohorquez et Gary Masaero
with Aurel & Laurent, architectes
Ingérop, structure, finishes and fittings
Séchaud & Bossuyt, mechanical engineering
Peutz & associés, acoustics
Vulcanéo, fire safety
Key figures
2 680 seats
Area : 8 726 m2 SHON
Construction costs excl. VAT : 16,7 M €
Photography credits
Didier Boy de la Tour
Xavier Testelin
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