Currently under construction, the Film Theatre of Catalonia is a new building for the Cinematheque of Catalunya in the Raval, Barcelona. Mateo Arquitectura won first prize in 2004 for their design proposal and they were kind enough to share their construction photographs with us. Follow the break for more photographs and an extract of the meeting between Josep Lluís Mateo and José Luis Guerín about the Raval district in Barcelona.
Architects: Mateo Arquitectura Location: Raval, Barcelona Client: Generalitat de Catalunya Project Area: 7,515 sqm Photographs: Adrià Goula
Guerín: I’m a very keen cinema-goer, so this will be my home, the home of cinema, la Maison du Cinéma. I say it in French because it was Langlois who invented the film theatre. The world’s first film archive was actually Henri Langlois’ bathtub, and Langlois was also very much involved in the way the Trocadero was planned.
