The Machine Hall
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 | The Machine Hall |
| Designer | Contamin and Dutert |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Date | 1889 |
| Building Type | exhibition building |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban exposition |
| Architectural Style | |
| Street Address | (demolished) |
| Notes | At the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Steel arch frames 150' high spanned about 380 feet. Glass roofing above the girders. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/The_Machine_Hall.html |
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“Erected and glazed in the space of a year, Contamin’s shed was a huge ‘tent’ of blue and white translucent glass covering a clear space of 800 by 380 feet and held in place by 10-foot-deep, wrought-iron, lattice arches; steel, at that date, still being extremely expensive. Beneath this canopy, mobile platforms running on rails, shuttled some 100,000 people a day above the latest examples of industrial machinery laid out at their feet; a mechanical panorama to be viewed solipsistically, so to speak, from the vantage point of a mobile exhibiting machine.”
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945.
Details
Built for the 1889 International Exhibition, Paris, the centenary celebration of the French Revolution (as was the Eiffel Tower) and demolished in 1910.
427 m (1400 ft) long, 45 m (150 ft) high, with spans of 114 m (375 ft). Completely glazed.
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Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. Mentioned, p1188 and p1220. small but impressive photo, p1222.
Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture, 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. perspective, p7. detail of hinged supports, p6.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. Interior perspective rendering, p206-207.
