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50 Wonders | Norman Foster: Crystal Palace

2020-10-23T09:00:00

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It’s AYA Day and Building Design’s 50th birthday! To celebrate, we invited Norman Foster to launch our landmark new series

Wonder: Crystal Palace | Architect: Joseph Paxton

Nominated by: Norman Foster

My favourite building is Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace. To me it represents the birth of modern architecture. Designed to house the Great Exhibition in 1851, the budget and timescale precluded traditional construction methods. Paxton’s solution was prefabricated, lightweight and transparent. It did more with less.

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