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Exhibition buildings
Skylon and the Dome of Discovery at night, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
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NOTES: Powell & Moya designed Skylon and Ralph Tubbs the Dome of Discovery.
Dome of Discovery seen through the aluminium coned entrance to People of Britain Pavilion, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
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NOTES: Ralph Tubbs designed the Dome of Discovery and Freeman Fox & Partners were the structural engineers. Cadbury-Brown designed the People of Britain Pavilion.
Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London: south transept and water tower
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NOTES: Joseph Paxton designed Sydenham Park as the garden setting for his Crystal Palace, which was erected in Hyde Park in 1851 for the Great Exhibition and rebuilt in a greatly enlarged and amended form at Sydenham in 1852-1854. Since this giant glasshouse stood at the summit of a very steep hill, Paxton chose a formal, terraced design, inspired by the Italian villa gardens he had seen whilst on the Grand Tour with the 6th Duke of Devonshire in 1838-1839.
Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London: view looking north
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SOURCE: Builder, vol. 12, 1854 June 10, p. 307
