Trailblazer: The Crystal Palace

摘要

Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace of 1851 essentially changed the course of history. Three times the size of St. Paul's Cathedral and five times the length of Buckingham Palace it was the largest glass building the world had ever seen. But as well as being an architectural spectacle it was an engineering marvel patenting radical new forms of construction and materials that were not to come into widespread use for at least another 50 years.