Architect:
\nSir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865)<\/p>\n
Name of the building: Site: Client: Contractors: Engineer: Other actors: Decorations: Building permit: Start of construction works: \u201cThe history of the world, I venture to say, records no event comparable in its promotion of human industry, with that of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851. A great people invited all civilized nations to a festival, to bring into comparison the works of human skill. The Sovereign of that people (…) witnessed its triumph among a multitude of 25,000 persons,all assembled under one glass roof of 1,850 feet in length, an event which had never happened before\u201d (1). Nelle sue memorie, pubblicate a Londra nel 1884, Henry Cole apriva il capitolo dedicato alle esposizioni internazionali con una fondamentale, seppur implicita, affermazione. Nelle sue trionfali righe si dichiarava inscindibile il rapporto tra la prima Grande Esposizione Universale e la struttura che la aveva ospitata, sineddoticamente rappresentata dalla sua \u201cunica copertura vetrata di 1,850 piedi di lunghezza.\u201d La storia del Palazzo di Cristallo concepito da Joseph Paxton si innesta su quella del grandioso evento del 1851 e ne e\u0300 un frammento fondamentale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":122,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-110","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","architect-paxton","year-1850-1851"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/projects\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailsinsection.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBuilding of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations; Crystal Palace<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHyde Park, London (UK);
\nthen rebuilt, expanded and with important variations, on Sydenham Hill, London<\/p>\n
\nSociety for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce<\/em>
\nRoyal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851<\/p>\n
\nFox, Henderson & Co. (main contractors: wrought iron works, timber carpentry at Chelsea sawmills; coordination of sub-contracting firms);
\nFirm Chance Brothers (glass panes suppliers);
\nFirm Birch (production of timber elements: Phoenix sawmills at Cumberland Market);
\nFirm Cochrane & Co., Impresa Jobson (cast iron elements);
\nFirm Fothergill & Co. (wrought iron bars);
\nFirm William Anderson Rose, firm Pontifex & Wood (decoration paint suppliers);
\nFirm Dowson & Co. (timber suppliers)<\/p>\n
\nSir Charles Fox (1810-1874)<\/p>\n
\nPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, Henry Cole (organisers and promoters);
\nCharles Barry, Robert Cockerell, Thomas Donaldson, Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Cubitt (Building Committee);
\nJohn Henderson (coordination of sub-contractors\u2019 activities);
\nWilliam Cubitt (engineer in chief);
\nMatthew Digby Wyatt (management, superintendent of the construction of the 1851 Exhibition building);
\nCharles Wild (supervision of calculations and final structural testing, superintending engineer);
\nHenry Wilbee (construction foreman, assembly system for the transept vault);
\nJohn Cochrane (construction foreman and director of Fox\u2019s collaborators);
\nCharles Clark (assistant); William George Brounger (topographer);
\nEdward Cowper (design of the in situ \u201cpre-fabrication\u201d machines);
\nWilliam Barlow (engineer, Paxton\u2019s structural consultant);
\nEarie (surveyor, clerk of works); Harwood (surveyor);
\nBarrow, Campbell, Fleming, Lindsey (Sappers and Miners corporals);
\nBateman, Dodd, Fowler, Haite, Warren (general assistants);<\/p>\n
\nOwen Jones (responsible for the decorations, interiors and colour scheme)<\/p>\n
\n1849. Initial planning of the event;
\n1850. Open design competition, construction tenders and awarding of the building contract<\/p>\n
\n1850<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"