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Around And About
High on Film
Here’s a twist to the idea of extracting more rent from a theatre building. The old way was to include
shops at street level.
At Forster, an attractive town on the New South Wales north coast, close to beaches and lakes, the
Great Lakes Cinema Three has rental apartments on its roof. The entrance to the apartments is on the
side of the building (below, right), independent of the theatre foyer.
Out In The Tinny
If you thought that the tin-shed cinema was long gone, think again. On Bribie Island, north of
Brisbane the Bribie Twin Theatre is exactly that. Set in an industrial estate, cuts and fill-ins in the
external walls suggest modifications to what might originally have been a panel-beating workshop or
some such activity.
The cinema screens five days a week with a matinee and night session. At weekends multiple
sessions offer four different, all current, programs.
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