Crystal Palace
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 | Crystal Palace |
| Designer | Joseph Paxton |
| Location | London, England (then Sydenham) |
| Date | 1851, moved 1852, burnt 1936 |
| Building Type | exposition hall |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | exposition campus |
| Architectural Style | Victorian |
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| Notes | Modular construction system - prefabricated iron sections. Floor area of 770,000 sq ft.,1851 ft long, 450 ft wide. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Crystal_Palace.html |
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See: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Crystal_Palace.html
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"Built out of prefabricated and wrought-iron elements and based on a four-foot module, this 1,848-foot-long ferro-vitreous construction was erected to the designs of Joseph Paxton and Charles Fox, of Fox, Henderson & Co. Its interior volume was organized into galleries which were alternately 24 feet and 48 feet wide. The roof of these galleries stepped up by 20 feet every 72 feet and culminated in a central nave 72 feet wide. The 'ridge and furrow' roof glazing system specially devised for the occasion required 49-inch glass sheets capable of spanning between furrows 8 feet apart, with three ridges occurring every 24 feet."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p11.
The Crystal Palace
See a related page at Wikipedia for additional information.
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Modern Architecture 1851-1945. Kenneth Frampton. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. perspective drawing, p4. typical details of modular components, p5. section, p11. perspective drawing, p12.— Available at Amazon.com
Architecture of the 19th Century in Europe. Claude Mignot. New York: Rizzoli International, date. exterior photo, p182.
Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings. Cecil D. Elliot. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1992. ISBN 0-262-05045-5. LC 91-28298. discussion and illustrations, p86-87. discussion, including a long contemporary description by Charles Dickens, and illustration, p131-132. — An excellent, fascinating book on development of building-related technologies and processes, and how they intertwine over time with building aesthetics. Available at Amazon.com
Article in Scientific American.
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The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview
The Design of the Crystal Palace — A great academic project at Virginia
