Palm House at Kew Gardens
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 | Palm House at Kew Gardens |
| Designer | Decimus Burton and Richard Turner |
| Location | London, England |
| Date | 1844 to 1848 |
| Building Type | greenhouse |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban botanical garden |
| Architectural Style | Victorian |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | 363 feet long, 100 feet wide, 66 feet high. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Palm_House_at_Kew_Gardens.html |
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"Crystal Palace Exhibition Hall of 1851, was the protagonist of glass in architecture. His conservatory at Chatsworth (1837; now, like the Crystal Palace, destroyed) was one of the great glass pioneers.
"Inspired by Chatsworth, and by the eager searching of the times, Decimus Burton and Richard Turner designed the much larger Palm House in London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where they were the supervising architects. Palm House is 363 feet long by 100 feet wide and rises to a height of 66 feet. Besides educating visitors in the natural world, one of the functions of English greenhouses at the time was to display the exotic range of plants and flowers that flourished in the British Empire."
— G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p128.
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<! -- resources -->"Configuring Kew", by Don Barker, ArchitectureWeek No. 306, 2006.1025, pC1.1.
"London Apline", by Don Barker, ArchitectureWeek No. 306, 2006.1025, p1.
"Restoring Kew Gardens", by Don Barker, ArchitectureWeek No. 117, 2002.1002, pC1.1.
Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.1536. PCD.1536. PCD.1536. PCD.1536. PCD.1536. PCD.1536.
Leonora Ison. English Architecture Through the Ages, Secular Building. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. LC 66-24565. NA961.I8 1967. perspective drawing, p99. Leonora Ison.
G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. LC 90-30728. NA200.S57 1990. Exterior photo of domes, p129. discussion, p128.
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Kew Gardens — The official web site.
