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Palm House at Kew Gardens Commentary
|Architect |Decimus Burton and Richard Turner |
|Location |London, England   map|
|Date |1844 to 1848   timeline |
|Building Type |greenhouse || Construction System |glass and iron |
|Climate |temperate |
|Context|urban botanical garden |
|Style |Victorian |
|Notes|363 feet long, 100 feet wide, 66 feet high. |


The glass and iron Palm House stands as a glittering piece of art in the middle of the park. The specimen was famous Crystal Palace London, and has been a popular destination since the 1878th Close to 1 000 square meters you'll find various exotic plants, including palms ofcourse. The nave, with its impressive floor to ceiling, houses some 30 different varieties. The nave is also a showroom where installations and exhibitions can take place. The east wing is spices and exotic fruit trees. Inside the Water House, including the spectacular giant water-lily from the Amazon and various kinds of epiphytes. In the west wing are Mediterranean plants and inside thesophisticated Kamelia house. George Löwegren, gardener and director of the Horticultural Society 1860-1916, was determined to build a large and stately greenhouses in the park, all according to recent fashion. He got through his will, despite the high costs it would entail. In London was Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace, inaugurated by himself Queen Victoria in Hyde Park during the World Expo 1852nd It hadbecome a model for many glass houses, and even Palm House in the Garden Society. Löwegren convinced the financiers and traveled to Scotland where the greenhouse was built. From the outset, he knew enough to be his beloved palm trees would have pride of place. In the autumn of 1878 the ready-made greenhouse sensation, and in spite of the past high entrance fees pilgrimage Gothenburger here.

"SirJoseph Paxton (1801-65), who achieved fame with his all-glass, prefabricated — and incomparable — Crystal Palace Exhibition Hall of 1851, was the protagonist of glass in architecture. His conservatory at Chatsworth (1837; now, like the Crystal Palace, destroyed) was one of the great glass pioneers.
"Inspired by Chatsworth, and by the eager searching of the times, Decimus Burton and RichardTurner designed the much larger Palm House in London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where they were the supervising architects. Palm House is 363 feet long by 100 feet wide and rises to a height of 66 feet. Besides educating visitors in the natural world, one of the functions of English greenhouses at the time was to display the exotic range of plants and flowers that flourished in the British...