The distinctive new cinema for Yorck Gruppe in Berlin’s City West district opened in September 2017 with a total of seven screens, 600 seats, an extensive public lobby, and two bars.

Located among several art and cultural institutions, including the C/O Berlin and the Helmut Newton Foundation, the cinema is designed as a new cultural landmark. The design concept was to make each hall excitingly different, like separate installations in an art gallery. Each cinema hall has its own colorful and surprising identity, though they are united by careful design details and thematic variations.

One of the halls has an outside wall covered with hand-painted wooden tiles in various shades of pink, while another is covered with knotty pine cladding, evoking the back of a stage set. The inside of the hall is deep “theatre red”; another is blue, another green, another pitch black. Thin strips of angular lighting unite the inside of the cinema halls and the corridors outside.

Textile wall coverings expertly hide sound distribution and dampening materials, ensuring optimal sound separation and audio quality.