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Clockwise from top: The projection room. The sound racks. Video projection system. The screen controls

diversity.” Perhaps too it could now be Proxima PRO AV9320 multimedia ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
seem to symbolize the international projector offering inputs for DVD, This article was first published in
growth ambitions of Soho House. The VHS, BETA SP and laptops. The Cinema Technology in September 2003.
company has already made a move in mechanism for operating the It is reproduced here (with slight
editing) by kind permission of the
this direction with the opening of Soho remarkable screen system is controlled
author and the editor of CT.
House, New York, which consists of a from the projection room.
screening room, members club and Conclusion Bill Chew is a chartered architect and
hotel in the Tribeca district in New the principal of Bill Chew Associates
It is remarkable in this age of the
York. It has followed this with another and managing director of
multiplex that a cinema which dates Cinestructures International Ltd.
club, also in New York.
back nearly a hundred years should
Projection Room have survived – and not only
The projection room is tucked away survived but has kept intact almost
on the first floor of the building and all of its original form and interior
unlike other projection rooms, even décor. That it has done so is a
though space is limited, has the benefit testament to the versatility of the
of full air-conditioning, making it a far cinema form as a building type but
cry from the ‘box up in the gods.’ The also to the commitment, foresight
equipment consists of a 35mm Kinoton and financial investment made by the
projector with a 2.5kw lamphouse. This current operator and freeholder.
projector caters for the following aspect These parties should be congratulated
ratios - 1.66, 1.85 (Widescreen), 2.35 for having done a very good job.
(CinemaScope) and 1.33 (Academy). Long may The Electric Cinema
The sound system is represented by continue and thrive! ★ A section of external wall.
a Dolby CP500 processor, which
Copyright: Bill Chew, July 2003
supports all popular formats including
SRD, SR, Dolby A and Mono. The
system consists of ‘audio management’
power amplifiers with ArtCoustic
screen speakers and Martin Audio
Surround system as described
previously. Video projection is from a

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