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Kino Kultura — architectural project by Parallel Group

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Kino Kultura

Skopje, North Macedonia

The Old Cinema

The rake is kept and used, the proscenium is left unrestored, and everything new is demountable so the room can be returned to what it was. The alternative was conventional and would have worked; this one works better for the people who are actually in the building.

Kino Kultura — view 1

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Exterior Perspective

Kino Kultura — full-width view 1
Kino Kultura — full-width view 2
Kino Kultura — detail view 1

This is a cultural venue in a former cinema, where what was there stays legible in the only form that counts. The intent survives the construction, which is where most of it is usually lost.

Kino Kultura — full-width view 3
Kino Kultura — full-width view 4

Here, the rake is kept and used, the proscenium is left unrestored, and everything new is demountable so the room can be returned to what it was. The tolerance in that junction is tighter than the rest of the building, and it is the one place the extra work was worth it.

Kino Kultura — detail view 2
Kino Kultura — full-width view 5
Kino Kultura — closing view

“It is a cultural venue in a former cinema, where what was there stays legible. That sentence is the whole brief, and the building answers it.”

- Parallel Group Architects

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