Cinema Radio City

Vali-Asr Street,
Tehran

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Architects: Heydar Ghiai-Chamlou

Styles: Streamline Moderne

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Cinema Radio City

This single screen movie theatre, with a balcony, opened in 1958, and was designed by noted Iranian architect Heydar Ghiai-Chamlou, who also designed the Iranian Senate House, the Royal Tehran Hilton (now the Esteghlal Hotel) as well as many other cinemas, train stations and private residences throughout Iran.

The Cinema Radio City was noted for its huge curving façade, which was wildly illuminated in colourful neon at night. The theatre suffered a bombing in 1973 but didn’t close until the Revolution in 1979. It was afterward stripped of its neon signage and converted into a pharmacy, but today is unused and fallen into disrepair.

Contributed by Bryan Krefft

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Roloff
Roloff on July 9, 2013 at 1:11 pm

The King & I is playing on the postcard, I was told in 1958, the year the cinema opened.

sartana
sartana on August 20, 2013 at 4:12 am

The address given is wrong. This theatre is located on Pahlavi(Vali-Asr) avenue, not Laleh Zar.

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