Tyneside Cinema has won first place at the RIBA North East Region Award 2009.
Built by Dixon Scott, the great uncle of film directors Sir Ridley and Tony Scott, the opened in 1937 and is the finest surviving purpose-built newsreel cinema in Britain, and the only one still operating as a cinema.
Fletcher Priest carefully restored the original auditorium, foyer and the popular Coffee Rooms that have been operating since 1938. Two new screening rooms have been added in a translucent rooftop extension, providing four screens seating over 500 people. The cinema is now the only multi-screen, art-house independent cinema between Leeds and Edinburgh.
