The Cahors cinema complex project is a « flagship project, the culmination of a strategy to regain the city centre». This multiplex must be like a tower for all to see, detectible from the amphitheatre-shaped surrounding hills. As a lever for structuring the city, it links closer the Bessières and Charles de Gaulle squares. It gives them palpable limits, the first closed, intimate, linking to public activities, while the other is wider, urban, and open to the boulevard, to the city. This multiplex is a vast airlock, a porch between two atmospheres.