The Barceló Cinema is a building that was designed as a cinema in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain. Its architect was Luis Gutiérrez Soto who designed it in 1930. It is a rationalist style building. It is notable for its representation of naval iconography in which the façade is structured in horizontal stripes and gaps, with a clear influence of the architecture of Erich Mendelsohn. Its interior housed the Pachá nightclub between 1980 and 2013.
History
The building was constructed on Barceló Street on the corner of Barceló and Larra streets as a neighborhood cinema, opposite the Hospicio gardens. The site has a trapezoidal floor plan, with its main entrance on the axial axis of the trapezoid.
Between 1975 and 1979 it became a theatre and in 1980 a nightclub, which belonged to the Pachá nightclub chain, its interior being renovated by the Spanish architect Jordi Goula. Since then the cinema sign has been removed to replace the nightclub sign. In April 2013, due to differences in management between the owner of the Pachá firm and the owner of the building, the relationship between the two was broken, detaching the entertainment franchise from the iconic rationalist building. The building was then called Teatro Barceló.
There is an informative plaque on the façade of the building about its history.
In 2023 the property was declared a site of cultural interest, with the category of monument.
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