Tennispalatsi

Tennispalatsi (Finnish), or Tennispalatset in Swedish (lit. "Tennis Palace"), is a cultural and recreational center in Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland. It houses a Finnkino movie theatre, the Art Museum Tennis Palace, the Museum of Cultures, and small shops.

Tennispalatsi was built in 1938 in preparation for the 1940 Summer Olympics. The functionalist building, which had four tennis courts, was designed by Helge Lundström. In the 1952 Summer Olympics the basketball preliminary games were held in Tennispalatsi.

Movie theatre

Finnkino has a 14-auditorium movie theatre in Tennispalatsi. It was opened on February 26, 1999. The auditoriums vary in size from 92 to 703 seats. The biggest one has a screen of 184.8 square metres (8.8 x 21 m – or 29 x 69 ft). The auditoriums utilize Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS technologies. All auditoriums also fulfill the THX standards, but after Finnkino quit paying the THX licensing fees in 2004, the THX logos haven't been used in Tennispalatsi or Finnkino's marketing.

Tennispalatsi is one of the two big Finnkino movie theatre multiplexes in Helsinki, along with Kinopalatsi. According to Finnkino, it was the world's first movie theatre to utilize THX and SDDS in all auditoriums [cite web| url=http://www.finnkino.fi/teatterit/default.asp |title=Finnkino: Teatterit|language=Finnish |accessdate=2006-05-27|] .

References

*"This article is based on a translation of an article in the Finnish Wikipedia."

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