The Busan Cinema Center (also called "Dureraum", meaning enjoying seeing movies all together in Korean) is the official, exclusive venue of the

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(BIFF), where its opening and closing ceremonies take place, located in

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Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...

, South Korea. The about US$150 million (KRW 167.85

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) center opened on September 29, 2011, almost three years after construction began. The building won the International Architecture Award and the

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in 2007. , it has the

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for the longest

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roof. The center was designed by the Austrian architectural design firm

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and constructed by

Hanjin Heavy Industries HJ Shipbuilding & Construction Company, Ltd. (Korean: 주식회사 HJ중공업, Hanja: 株式會社HJ重工業), formerly Korea Shipbuilding & Engineering Corporation (Korean: 대한조선공사, Hanja: 大韓造船公社) and Hanjin Heavy Ind ...

Facilities

The center comprises three buildings (Cine Mountain, Biff Hill, and Double Cone), Biff Theater (an outdoor theater) with the Small Roof, and Dureraum Square with the Big Roof. The Busan Cinema Center, built on a 32,137 m² plot, occupies 54,335 m² of performance, dining, entertainment, and administrative space. The center has two steel roofs. The Big Roof is 163 m long x 60 m wide with an 85 m cantilever portion and weighs 6,376 (metric) tons. The Small Roof covering the outdoor theater BIFF Theater has a span of 70 m and an area of 66 m x 100 to 120 m and weighs 1,236 (metric) tons. The Big Roof is the longest cantilever roof certified by

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. The ceilings of the Big and Small Roofs are clad with 23,910 and 18,690 LED lights respectively.

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* Haeundae District Buildings and structures in Busan Culture of Busan Tourist attractions in Busan Theatres in South Korea Concert halls in South Korea {{theat-struct-stub