Yorck Passage is a beautiful movie theatre in neoclassical-style located in Berlin, Germany, redesigned in 2021 by Batek Architekten.

Description
The original neoclassical-style ?Rixdorfer Gesellschaftshaus? (Rixdorf Society House) building was erected in 1908. Two years later, the ?Excelsior Lichtspielhaus? cinema opened on the first floor in a space originally intended to be a theatre auditorium. After its closure in 1968, the cinema was used as a furniture storage space, amongst other things. At the end of the 1980s, the Yorck Kinogruppe (Yorck Cinema Group) took over the building, which was now under a preservation order. They restored the large main auditorium to its former historical glory and called it the ?Passage Kino?. BATEK ARCHITEKTEN also designed the interiors of the Kino Delphi Lux cinema for the same client. But whereas with the Delphi Lux the architects had a newly-built space to play with, the task with the Passage cinema ? as with the Blauer Stern, another old Berlin repertory cinema they restored and updated ? was to let the beauty of the existing space shine once again whilst adapting it to the requirements of a contemporary cinema audience.
The aesthetic of the building complex is defined by the shape of the large arched windows of the fac?ade. BATEK ARCHITEKTEN picked up on this dominant repeating form in their design of their new bar for the foyer. The natural tones of the colour scheme follow the earthy reddish-brown colour of the ...