the Crystal Palace - Joseph Paxton

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Cupid is the deliver of love, Albert delivered the exhibition

Albert's relation to Cupid

gardener and greenhouse designer

Paxton was a...

society of arts

albert head of...

punch magazine

alledgedly coined name

Joseph Paxton

architect

raw materials, machinery, manufacture, fine art

categories of exhibition

one temporary roof

celebrate the achievement of the industrial revolution under

transept with a high barrel vault

central...

8 months

construction took

1936

destroyed

three symmetrical entrance porches -south east west

entrance

1851 Great Exhibition

for

cantilevered and supporting ribs from centre equally distribute tension

how did the amazon lily inpire the construction

14000

how many exhibitors

trees

incorporated

open lattice work interior

interior

1848 foot long, 408 foot wide, between two water towers, space divided like territories

layout

amazon lily

leaf insperation

originally Hyde Park, London

location

bio-mimicry

look at nature for design name

glass, steel, laminated wood

materials

Sydenham Hill, South London 1854

move

uninterrupted glazed perimeter (other than entrances

perimeter

greenhouse, prefabrication, layout, empire and industry

plan

Slatted roof with adjustable louvers for ventilation

roof

cucumber between two chimneys

ruskin's description

Esther Fernandez

sees glass as distorting view of empire

51 8ft wide bays

units

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Venus and Cupid

which central status mimic eachother


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