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Arario\u00a0Co., Ltd., a Cheonan-based local enterprise that began as a central bus terminal business in 1978, showed early interest in arts and culture by constructing\u00a0Arario\u00a0Sculpture Plaza and\u00a0Arario\u00a0Gallery near the terminal when it is\u00a0relocated\u00a0to\u00a0Sinbu-dong in 1989. Cheonan\u00a0Yawoori\u00a0Cineplex, opened in 2001 with a name combining the friendly Korean terms “ya” and “uri,” serves as a landmark forming connections between the city’s image and its traveling citizens, while embodying the attributes of a complex space where similar yet distinct programs \u2014 multiplex, intercity terminal, express bus terminal, shopping center, department store, and gallery \u2014 must be interconnected. Architecturally, the approach considered the site’s context where “one” (cinema) meets “many,” borrowing similarities in building imagery and materials to relate to surroundings, while simultaneously creating a new image unique to the cinema with contrasting juxtapositions through “montage.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yawoori\u00a0Cineplex, as the first standalone cinema in\u00a0Chungnam\u00a0Province, reflects comprehensive considerations over various elements. Primarily, it focuses on multiplex essentials by providing visual, auditory, and tactile satisfaction, along with all comfort factors for movie viewing such as entry\/exit circulation and temperature\/humidity control. To achieve commercial efficiency, it harmonizes with surrounding retail while ensuring operator convenience for economic\u00a0synergy, and as a multi-use facility, it fosters building stability, publicness, and citizen convenience through terminal-connected circulation. Additionally, it provides a modern and beautiful first impression of Cheonan City for all visitors arriving by car or bus \u2014 a symbolic landmark serving as a meeting point for citizens \u2014 with its strengthened role as a rest and cultural space linked to the external sculpture park, offering diverse spatial experiences. The cinema was expanded into a mixed-use commercial facility in 2005,\u00a0operated\u00a0for 18 years, and reopened as CGV Cheonan Terminal in February 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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