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Details are emerging of Netflix’s plans for a new series of "immersive experiences" that will reimagine several dead retail spaces inside shopping centers in the United States by 2025. Both the Galleria Dallas and the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania are being targeted for the new Netflix... View full entry
Construction on Tesla's new Stantec-designed drive-in diner and electric vehicle charging concept is making progress in Los Angeles, as the local NBC station reports. The project, which wasn’t approved until last April, is currently taking shape at 7001 W Santa Monica Boulevard in West... View full entry
Tesla’s retro-inspired supercharging diner & drive-in movie theater concept will begin construction soon after the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety recently approved a planning permit for the company’s first Stantec-led design at 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood... View full entry
As reported by Electrek in May 2022, Tesla has moved its previously-announced plans for a supercharging station featuring a diner and drive-in movie theater from a vacant lot in the city of Santa Monica to the current location of a Shakey's Pizza franchise on 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard... View full entry
Craving more inspiring books about architectural film studies? Eager to learn more about the ever-intriguing relationship between architecture and film? Don't miss out on “The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces”, the latest volume by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian, the editors of online... View full entry
“It’s a fundamental human need to physically experience and celebrate events and experiences together, and we’re trying to provide options for everyone where they can be safely socially distant and socially present at the same time.” — The Miami Herald
The Covid-19 pandemic which continues to bring changes to our daily lives is causing one football franchise to rethink a classic from the 1950's: The Drive-In Movie Theater. The function of your standard cineplex today is not conducive to maintaining the various social distancing policies... View full entry
The Hemakcheat was once one of Cambodia’s most beloved cinemas and Meas Sopheap one of its star dancers. Today it is a notorious slum, and Meas one of hundreds who shelter there. [...]
Hundreds of men, women and children shelter here, many on the ground-floor auditorium where they are shrouded in permanent darkness among hundreds of bats that screech and flap their wings constantly. [...] More waste falls from makeshift floors constructed above. The rotten stench of sewage is overpowering.
— theguardian.com
The only geodesic dome movie theater in the world, Becket’s design was inspired by Buckminster Fuller—and the nation’s midcentury obsession with landing on the moon. Built to resemble a giant spacecraft, the Dome boasted futuristic floating stairways—a first for any movie theater at the time. Simultaneously projected images using three 35mm cameras were so cutting-edge, the Dome’s own original projector—the Norelco Universal—would win a Technical Academy Award in 1963 [...]. — Los Angeles Confidential Magazine
