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Sarah-Jane Bonner m: [phone] e: [email protected] LIFE ON MARS Cinema meets planetarium. Life On Mars is a part rehabilitation and new-build project of the Ritzy cinema that connects to the Tate Library beside. A hybrid use of the space that provides a new relationship between fiction, science and education. Drawing inspiration from astronomical principles, the space comprises of ‘celestial bodies’: the inverted dome, the marquise structure and sphere within. Suspended through the building it emits a continuous skylight around the sphere. The Inverted dome provides a new authentic experience of the night sky. Visitors are guided along on a special journey through the building that reveals the new organic design. It can be viewed from Brixton Oval and across all floors, visitors can see the special construction techniques used which reveals hanging sphere within the outer layer of the glass and steel faceted structure which creates a jewel like feature. Brixton Oval Coldharbour Lane London SW2 1JG 26