Powerhouse Company is pleased to present its second completed city center cinema for Pathé Theatres. Following the opening of the Arnhem cinema, the cinema of Maastricht, the Netherlands opened its doors. Powerhouse Company’s design is injecting the glamour back into going to the movies.
Photography: Ronald Tilleman
Just to the north of the city center of Maastricht, in a renewed district named Sphinxkwartier, the new 1000- seat cinema is designed as a cultural hub for film, streamed opera, lectures, and events. The 130m-long foyer and the eight screens are stretched across the entire length of the movie theater and is situated between the screen rooms and the Boschstraat. The building?s exciting context-specific architecture seeks to capture some of cinema?s 1920s and 1930s heyday in its classic, formal modernism. Photography: Ronald Tilleman
Pathé Maastricht forms one side of a master plan development by Palmbout urban landscapes to transform an area which has lain derelict since 2006. The cinema connects directly to an ensemble of three connected factory buildings built between 1928 and 1941 for Sphinx, a manufacturer of ceramics. The 130-meter long cinema is divided into three parts; high parts at the two entrances and a lower middle portion of the screen rooms. Entranced on one end to the square, and abutting to the other onto a triumphant arch for the Sphinx factory entrance, the cinema programme is a series of rooms along the length of the building at gro...