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Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was a wonder of modern engineering – plate glass bolted together by cast iron to create a vast segmented umbrella under which mature elm trees, as well as teeming crowds, nestled happily.
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For the first World Fair, the Great Exhibition of 1851, Joseph Paxton used his experience in greenhouses to create the revolutionary Crystal Palace.
PHOTOS: FUTURE DESIGN: Exposing Culture And Architecture From Shanghai Expo 2010 To Yeosu 2012, Milan 2015 Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2010
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Joseph Paxton, who built the Crystal Palace, proposed an enormous glass-roofed arcade more than a hundred feet high and ten miles long.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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For the first World Fair, the Great Exhibition of 1851, Joseph Paxton used his experience in greenhouses to create the revolutionary Crystal Palace.
Exposing Culture And Architecture From Shanghai Expo 2010 To Yeosu 2012, Milan 2015 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Joseph Paxton, who built the Crystal Palace, proposed an enormous glass-roofed arcade more than a hundred feet high and ten miles long.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Joseph Paxton, who built the Crystal Palace, proposed an enormous glass-roofed arcade more than a hundred feet high and ten miles long.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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On Saturday many of us went to Chatsworth, a magnificent stately home with gardens laid out by Joseph Paxton who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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I had always known that medievalist architect Augustus Pugin 1812-52 said to Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace “you had better keep to building green-houses, and I will keep to my churches and cathedrals”.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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Ruskin's label was closest to the truth: the building had been designed by Joseph Paxton, using his experience in building a large green house for the Duke of Devonshire.
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On Saturday many of us went to Chatsworth, a magnificent stately home with gardens laid out by Joseph Paxton who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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