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The contemporary art house cinema, the Picture Palace, in the Irish harbor city of Galway rises above the low skyline like a giant, concrete monolith. Developed by Solas Galway Picture Palace Teoranta, with the financial assistance of Galway City Council, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Bord Scannan na hEireann / The Irish Film Board, the Arts Council and the Western Development Commission, when completed - the project is currently 80% finished -it will be the first state-of-the-art, art house cinema of its kind in western Ireland. Historically, Galway has one hundred year old ties to moviemaking; UNESCO's City of Film, it's no surprise that history is also a part of this building's construction. The plot of land that the concrete building is situated on dates back to 1806 and originally belonged to a Georgian merchant, with previous incarnations as a toy store, livery stables, a grain depot and a private house. In fact, the original three storey structure is still very much present and has painstakingly been reconstructed to match the stylistic character of the original to now function as a "gatehouse" to the modern, concrete monolith that houses the main cinemas behind it. 
Photo by Peter Maybury. Designed by Tom de Paor of de Paor Architects, both the contemporary historical structures tie in to each other, juxtaposing their stylistic differences with touches of similarities, such as the polished concrete used throughout, as well as the buildings' slate pyramid and pitch gabled roofs, respectively. The cinemas themselves cantilever on the contemporary structure, creating both a sense of movement as well as providing more space to the interior |
