Busan Cinema Center


The Busan Cinema Center is the official, exclusive venue of the Busan International Film Festival, where its opening and closing ceremonies take place, located in Centum City, Busan, South Korea. The about US$150 million center opened on September 29, 2011, almost three years after construction began. The building won the International Architecture Award and the Chicago Athenaeum in 2007. , it has the Guinness World Record for the longest cantilever roof. The center was designed by the Austrian architectural design firm Coop Himmelbau and constructed by Hanjin Heavy Industries.

Facilities

The center comprises three buildings, Biff Theater with the Small Roof, and Dureraum Square with the Big Roof. The Busan Cinema Center, built on a 32,137 m² plot, occupies 54,335 m² of performance, dining, entertainment, and administrative space. The center has two steel roofs. The Big Roof is 163 m long x 60 m wide with an 85 m cantilever portion and weighs 6,376 tons. The Small Roof covering the outdoor theater BIFF Theater has a span of 70 m and an area of 66 m x 100 to 120 m and weighs 1,236 tons. The Big Roof is the longest cantilever roof certified by Guinness World Records. The ceilings of the Big and Small Roofs are clad with 23,910 and 18,690 LED lights respectively.