Tennispalatsi

Tennispalatsi (lit. Tennis palace) is a cultural and recreational center in Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland. It contains a Finnkino movie theatre, the Art Museum Tennis Palace, the Museum of Cultures, and small shops.

Tennispalatsi was built in 1938. The functionalist building was designed by Helge Lundström. It had four tennis courts. in the 1952 Summer Olympics the basketball 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 686 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 movie theatre multiplexes in Helsinki, along with Sandrew Metronome's Kinopalatsi. According to Finnkino, it was the world's first movie theatre to utilize THX and SSDS in all auditoriums.