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The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Crystal Palace, giant glass-and-iron exhibition hall in Hyde Park, London, that housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. The structure was taken down and rebuilt (1852–54) at Sydenham Hill (now in the borough of Bromley), at which site it survived until 1936.
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Jul 5, 2013 · The Crystal Palace was a glass and cast iron structure built in London, England, for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, an architect and gardener,...
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- The Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, 1854. Photo by Philip Henry Delamotte ©
- The State Opening of The Great Exhibition in 1851, colour lithograph by Louis Haghe.©
May 15, 2023 · Built in 1851 to host the United Kingdom’s first international trade fair, the Great Exhibition of 1851, the palace was a marvel of Victorian engineering, the largest building in the world at the time, designed by the esteemed architect Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Jun 21, 2020 · Built in 1851 in London and designed by botanist and greenhouse builder Joseph Paxton (1801-1865), the Crystal Palace is a key building in the history of architecture, not only because of its monumental scale and the many technical innovations involved in its construction, but also because it hosted the first World Expo.
May 21, 2018 · Featuring modular, prefabricated, iron and glass construction, the Crystal Palace stretched 1,848 feet long, 72 feet wide, and 64 feet high, with a barrel-vaulted transept rising to 104 feet. It was built from start to finish in just seven months, at a cost of £170,000.
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The Crystal Palace was first erected in Hyde Park in 1850-51 to house the world's first international trade fair, the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Exhibition's origins lay in the national exhibitions of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and particularly in the Paris Exposition of 1849.
