the Crystal Palace - Joseph Paxton
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
