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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. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m 2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.
New York Crystal Palace was an exhibition building constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City in 1853, which was under the presidency of the mayor Jacob Aaron Westervelt. The building stood on a site behind the Croton Distributing Reservoir in what is now Bryant Park. It was destroyed by fire on October 5, 1858.
Crystal Palace is an area in South London, named after the Crystal Palace Exhibition building which stood in the area from 1854, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1936. [2] About 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Charing Cross , it includes one of the highest points in London , at 367 feet (112 m), [ 3 ] offering views over the capital.
The Crystal Palace was an enormous success, considered an architectural marvel, but also an engineering triumph that showed the importance of the exhibition itself. [6] The building was later moved and re-erected in 1854 in enlarged form at Sydenham Hill in south London, an area that was renamed Crystal Palace. It was destroyed by fire on 30 ...
The Crystal Palace, built in 1851 originally in Hyde Park, then relocated to south London in 1854 and destroyed by fire in 1936 . The Great Exhibition, the event the building was built for, sometimes also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition
Most of the collections of the National Museum of Brazil were destroyed in a 2018 fire. June 15 – The Glasgow School of Art main building, nearing the end of restoration after the fire in 2014, was badly damaged in another fire that destroyed the interior of the adjoining O2 ABC music venue. [289] [290] June 28 – Gikomba fire.
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Many other buildings in Bishopsgate which escaped the Great Fire survived into the Victorian period. [8] Crystal Palace: 1851: 1936: Hyde Park: Built by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Rebuilt in different form in South London 1854; destroyed by fire. Cumberland House: 1763: 1908–1912: Pall Mall