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

<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>

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.

The legendary London landmark was tragically devastated by fire back in 1936

Crystal Palaca

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

Crystal/ironwork pavilion, Madrid's El Retiro

We've teamed up with Another Studio to give away five model kits of the Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace in Retiro park, where there was a light-refraction art exhibit. Contraband photo!

Designed by Joseph Paxton, England en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace

Crystal Palace

Author John Wade has delved into the age of innovation and looked at some of the concepts which have shaped modern day life - and the eclectic inventions which were not quite so useful.

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