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Originally designed by Paul Thiry for the 1962 World's Fair, the old Alki Room became headquarters for the Seattle International Film Festival in 2011. A smartly modernist $2.8 million makeover by Owen Richards Architects and favorable city lease gave the nonprofit SIFF its first permanent home, where it now has offices (some leased to The Film School, a separate entity), snack bar, and a 100-seat cinema. It's only two blocks east of the refurbished SIFF Cinema Uptown, where three larger screens also play indie, foreign, and new studio releases. Both facilities are used for the annual spring film festival, the largest such gathering in the U.S.
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