The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
- Company:
- Waagner Biro steel and glass
- Client:
- Metropolitan Borough Council of Gateshead
- Investor, Builder:
- The Glasshouse
- Designer:
- Architect: Foster + Partners; Engineer: Buro Happold; Main contractor: Laing O'Rourke
- Country, City:
- United Kingdom, Gateshead
- Object category:
- Architectural construction
- Services:
- engineering
- Completion:
- 2004
Project Description
The building’s dramatic, shell-like form encloses three main performance spaces. The project took ten years of planning and has received worldwide attention. Foster + Partners were appointed after an international competition. The centre was designed after extensive consultation with users, audiences, artists and musicians. It is one of many F+P and Waagner Biro steel and glass landmarks.