The Brooklyn architecture team Popular Architecture has recently had their proposal for Cinema Pushinsky shortlisted in DuPont’s 2011 Changing the Face competition. Further images of their proposed restoration and a brief narrative after the jump.
The main problem with the Cinema Pushkinsky is that it has lost its openness. Completed in 1961, historic photographs of it show a building far lighter and more transparent, one that extends its surroundings, drawing moviegoers into the luminescent darkness of the theater.
