Glaspalast Augsburg, Cultural center in Augsburg, Germany

The Glaspalast is a five-storey steel-skeleton building with 13 window axes along its long side, erected in 1910 for the SWA cotton spinning mill. Its fully glazed façades gave it its name. The north front is split by a stair tower topped with a three-storey sprinkler tower and bell roof; the west front is almost windowless, and a planned extension was never built.

Built in 1910 as Werk IV (Aumühle) of the Mechanische Baumwollspinnerei und Weberei Augsburg, the Glaspalast was designed by Stuttgart architect Philipp Jakob Manz and erected in nine months by Thormann & Stiefel AG. It served as a cotton spinning mill until the company's 1988 bankruptcy. The city bought it in 1987 for 14 million DM to save jobs, sold it in 1999 to builder Ignaz Walter for 10.3 million DM, and after a renovation completed in 2006 it became a cultural venue.

The name Glaspalast comes from the fully glazed façades of the 1910 spinning mill. Since 2002 the privately run Kunstmuseum Walter has shown Ignaz Walter's collection of modern and contemporary art on the first floor, while the ground floor holds the Kunsthalle Augsburg with changing exhibitions on almost 3,000 m². The Galerie Noah and the BBK Schwaben-Nord und Augsburg also have rooms in the building.

The Kunsthalle Augsburg occupies the ground floor with around 3,000 m² of mainly changing exhibitions, while the privately run Kunstmuseum Walter on the first floor shows a permanent collection. The museum rooms are rented from the building's owner, so opening arrangements follow the tenants rather than a single building-wide schedule. The site lies on Otto-Lindenmeyer-Straße, named after the SWA's first director; the former weaving sheds next door were demolished and the area is now called Aumühle.

The north facade is asymmetrical: the stair tower with its three-storey sprinkler tower and bell-shaped roof sits off-centre, and the west front is almost windowless. Both result from a planned extension that was never built because of the SWA's economic development.