After the bombing of Rotterdam, the section between the Coolsingel and the Karel Doormanstraat was built in the fifties. In 1957, the office building with the Scala Theater was built to a design by the architectural firm B. Hoogstraten from Voorburg, who died during the construction. His employee GE Lette completed his design. On 12 December 1957, the Scala cinema was opened and closed again in July 1958, because the cinema was still in a remote corner of the city centre. The entrance to the cinema contains a colourful mosaic on both sides made by the Rotterdam artist Teus van den Berg. The two walls are covered with ceramic hexagonal tiles, made by De Porceleyne Fles. Van den Berg created a beautiful composition, which still gives atmosphere to the current Cinerama cinema that opened on this site in 1960. The facade of the building is a municipal monument, which is why the mosaic has been well preserved. In addition to his work for Cinerama, Van den Berg also created a mosaic for the former Thalia cinema.
