Profiled Glass at Geelong Arts Centre | Lamberts

Lamberts manufactures profiled glass solutions designed for durable, high-performance architectural applications across façades and exterior building envelopes. LINIT® U Glass, specifically the LINIT® EcoGlass P 26/60/7 low-iron TSH variant (toughened, sandblasted, heat-soak tested), from Lamberts was used in the new Geelong Arts Centre, located in Geelong, Australia.

The redevelopment of the Geelong Arts Centre brings together a theatre, multiple performance spaces, and several artists’ studios within a new cultural hub in the city centre. Completed in 2019, the project reveals a small nineteenth-century church that had previously been hidden on the site. Designed by Hassell, the building’s expressive form emerges from the historic church’s silhouette, expanding it upward and outward through a structure composed of concrete, steel, and glass. The two-storey glass façade cantilevers over the church roof, creating an enlarged, luminous profile that has since become a distinctive landmark in the port city of Geelong.

For the building’s exterior facade, the architects selected Lamberts’ LINIT® EcoGlass P 26/60/7 low-iron profiled glass in a toughened, sandblasted, heat-soak-tested configuration. Known for its durability and high load-bearing capacity, the glass was ideal for the project’s dynamic cantilevering façade geometry. Customisable in thickness, web width, and flange height, the glass could be produced to meet the structural and aesthetic requirements of the design. The low-iron composition enhances visual lightness, while the interior sandblasting creates a soft, whitish hue that enriches the building envelope—especially when illuminated from within.