This is an extension to the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, which currently occupies a 1930’s warehouse style building. It is on a prominent site overlooking a main road in to the city and the exit from the mainline railway station. The scheme provides the cinema with a new clearly legible entrance, another auditorium and flexible office space above. While the site is rectangular, we elected to taper the building – this provides the opportunity to create a new external space outside the entrance, from which images can be projected onto the building’s façade.

 

Cut away axonometric views

Looking up at the building from Sheaf Square


Looking down at the entrane