In collaboration with FDMP | Mandat de conseil | Architecture d'intérieur des lieux de nuit : salle de cinéma, restaurant, hôtel et glacier-en cours, ouverture 2025-26-27 - Followed by Benoit Busschaert, Marion Vergne & Youri Kravtchenko
Built by architect Marc J. Saugey between 1951 and 1953, the Mont-Blanc Centre and Plaza cinema complex is a unique urban project. Transformed and renovated with great care by the FDMP architectural firm, the interior design was entrusted to ykra.
Under the title La Nuit Américaine - a cinematographic process involving the use of a bluish filter to film imagined night scenes in daylight - the focus was on creating a décor capable of accompanying the demanding architecture of modernism, while infusing it, if possible, with a contemporary vein conducive to nocturnal encounters of all kinds. At Brasserie Europe, travertine from the street flows into the restaurant under a ceiling of mirrors and neon lights. The bar of the historic ice cream parlour becomes a simulacrum of a reinvented past, while the hotel rooms are transformed into self-contained projection rooms, where sharing a film can be done from the comfort of your bed.
The first floor, directly connected to the sidewalk, features a heavy curtain and redesigned seating. The second floor, meanwhile, offers a different viewing experience thanks to the addition of tiered banquettes.
