Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane

 - Jakob Schoof

The Glasshouse Theatre adds a fifth venue to the heritage-listed Queensland Performing Arts Centre. It can be flexibly used for concerts, operas, and dance and theatre performances. The glass facades of the deeply cantilevered foyer visualise the theatrical art of illusion on the exterior.

Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane
The fly tower of the Glasshouse Theatre consists of textured prefabricated concrete elements, while the ­existing QPAC displays smooth in-situ concrete. The continuity of colouration, however, is clearly visible. © Christopher Frederick Jones