Light House Cinema is a decidedly different and exciting movie theatre. The cinema is located at Smithfield in Dublin, Ireland. It looks and functions best when people are using it. Light House cinema is also an institution in Dublin. It began showing Irish, independent, foreign-language, art house and classic cinema 20 years ago, closed in 1966, and re-opened this summer in its new, customized space.

The four-screen, art-house cinema features a spectacular, inviting and open cafe that looks like something you’d see at an art museum, not a movie theatre. The leader of the Light House project at DTA was Derek Tynan and the project architect was Colin Mackay.