Crystal Palace Wallpapers

Joseph Paxton Crystal Palace - biography: Joseph Paxton Crystal Palace London 1851, moved to Sydenham 1855, destroyed by fire 1963. A pune space caved out of the atmosphere-that was the impression created by the Crystal Palace, erected by the gardener and architect Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first international exhibition to be held in London. Its basic module was the largest sheet of glass that it was then possible to produce. All the component parts of theexhibition bulding were standardized andprefabricated industrially. It was thus passible to erect te great hall - 750.000square feet (70.000 square meters) - in less than five months, and then remount it in Sydenham. Bare of all the ornamentation then in fashion, the iron, glass, and wood construction of the Crystal Palace is stripped of all sense of solidity. As the first high point of the new field of architectural engineering, it inspired a great deal of emulation. At the beginning of the 20th century it was celebrated as a breakthrough into modemity.

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