Central building of Ořechovka, Communal center in Střešovice, Prague, Czech Republic

The Central Building of Ořechovka is a communal center in Střešovice featuring exposed brick walls, half-timbered gables, and multiple interior facilities. Inside you will find an Art Deco cinema hall, a theater space, a dance hall, and a restaurant serving the local community.

The central building of the Ořechovka garden suburb was built in 1920–1923 to Jaroslav Vondrák's Art Deco design, housing shops, a restaurant, a café, a library, a post office and a cinema. The cinema opened in 1923 with Charlie Chaplin's silent film The Kid. A first insensitive reconstruction in the 1970s covered the wall paintings, which survive under the plaster.

The building served as the social heart of the neighborhood with its cinema, theater, and dance hall hosting regular events for residents. These spaces brought people together for entertainment and celebrations that shaped the community's shared life.

The entrance to the cinema is through the passage of the building at Na Ořechovce 250/30b in Prague 6-Střešovice. The hall has a large raised area in front of the screen that can serve as a theatre stage. The cinema has not screened films since January 2015.

The cinema's original wall paintings by Josef Šimák, muses and gilded linden ornaments on a sky-blue ground, survive beneath later plaster applied in the 1970s. The ceiling ornament is attributed to František Kysela. The first screening in 1923 was Chaplin's silent film The Kid.