
The Wuhan Wushang Mall International Cinema, designed to look like the aftermath of a high-budget Hollywood explosion.

Pillar-like structures are strewn across the foyer beneath a canopy of angular shards.

One of the "collapsed" columns opens at the bottom to reveal a box office.

In each of the auditoriums, hundreds of acoustic panels have been scattered across the rooms' walls, appearing like piles of bricks and rubble.

Washbasins protrude at sharp angles from a marble floor, seemingly on the verge of collapse.

A cinema in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay, designed by One Plus Partnership and completed in 2013.

Public areas are lit by pole-mounted spotlights, giving visitors the feeling of being on a movie set.

Designers Virginia Lung and Ajax Law use the spotlights to play with light and shadow.

Each of One Plus Partnership's movie theaters have been designed to transport visitors into "another world," according to Lung.

Lung and her team have designed around 60 movie theaters across mainland China and Hong Kong.

The Guangzhou Haizhucheng IMAX was designed around the theme of a meteor shower.

While many of One Plus Parnership's movie theaters make obvious allusions to the imagery of film, others -- like this one -- are more abstract.

The meteor motif is reinforced through the use of earthy tones and metallic surfaces.

The complex stretches over two floors and more than 44,000 square feet of floor space.

The designers hope that visitors see the movie theater's design as a work of art in its own right.

The Shanghai Omnijoi International Cinema, a 36,000-square-foot movie theater designed by One Plus Partnership.

Form and function converge in the auditoriums, where acoustic materials and matte surfaces must be incorporated into the design.

Counter space is created using the cinema's metallic pipe motif.

"We think that atmosphere in interior design is the most important thing," said Lung.

The cinemas' sculptural elements often double up as lamps or seating.


