New Alesia Cinema Paris, Parisian Theater Building Reconstruction, Photos
New Alesia Cinema in Paris
Paris 14th arrondissement Building, France – design by Manuelle Gautrand architect
6 Mar 2017
New Alesia Cinema in Paris Building
Location: Paris
Architects: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
A PARIS CINEMA STEEPED IN HISTORY
The project?s concerns:

In 2011, the Gaumont-Pathé group decided to renovate the existing building in order to

upgrade the cinemas and to improve user comfort. This was part of a broader scheme to

gradually update the image of their chain of cinemas, which often occupy exceptional,

city-centre sites, but suffered from being seen as old-fashioned.

The aim is to transform them into high-quality cultural venues, animated day and night,
and suffi ciently flexible to accommodate a varied programme, mixing cinema with other

cultural events: the image of the city cinema was to be entirely rethought.
Through this project, Gaumont-Pathé aims to open a whole new chapter for its cinema

architecture, a chapter that is contemporary and innovative, where the accent is on

comfort as well as audio and visual quality for the film theatres themselves, but also on

original and generous public spaces for before and after the film.

Photos : Luc Boegly
The site ? the context:
The Alésia multi-screen cinema is on the edge of a large urban space. Its main facade

faces due west onto the broad Boulevard du Général Leclerc, a major thoroughfare in

southern Pa...