The crystal palace

Photograph of an external view of the south transept of the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park during the Great Exhibition. Flags fly along the building and top of the arched roof. This photograph is from Volume II (RCIN 2800001) of Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided. The incredibly successful Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, commonly known as the Great...

Joseph Paxton (1803 – 1865) | Crystal Palace | 1854 (destroyed 1936) | London, England

Jul 14, 2016 - In the 13th century, greenhouses were built in Italy to house the exotic plants that explorers brought back from the tropics. They were originally called giardini botanici (botanical gardens). See more ideas about greenhouse, botanical gardens, exotic plants.

<span>The structure hosted the first Universal Exhibition in 1851: a fundamental building in the history of architecture, both for its monumental scale and the technical innovations at play. However, it was not an architect who designed it, but a botanist and greenhouse builder: Joseph Paxton.</span> <span> </span>

Joseph Paxton (1803 – 1865) | Crystal Palace | 1854 (destroyed 1936) | London, England

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Cyrstal Palace Exhibition Building, London, constructed of cast iron & plate glass - 1854 to it's distruction by fire in 1936

Crystal/ironwork pavilion, Madrid's El Retiro

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The Crystal Palace, The Great Exhibition of 1851 | by eloisemoorehead

This edited article about the Great Exhibition originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 777 published on 4th December 1975. Victoria and Albert arrive at Paxton’s Crystal Palace by John Keay The Great Exhibition, opened by Queen Victoria in 1851, was an enormous success; and when it was over, many people found that they […]

Joseph Paxton - Crystal Palace, The Great Exhibition. London, 1851.

Crystal palace in Buen Retiro park, Madrid, Spain