Dezeen Debate features “absolutely gorgeous” Glasshouse Theatre in Queensland
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Glasshouse Theatre in Queensland by Blight Rayner Architecture and Snøhetta. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
Australian studio Blight Rayner Architecture and Snøhetta have completed the Glasshouse Theatre in Queensland, featuring an undulating glass facade that encloses the cantilevered first floor.
Readers were stunned by the project, with one calling it “absolutely gorgeous”, while another described it as “sexy but thoroughly superficial and excessive”.

Other stories in this week’s newsletter included Smiljan Radić winning the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize, a study by AI company Anthropic that found architects and engineers to be among the professions most susceptible to automation by AI and Kelly Wearstler’s first-ever piano.
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