Great Exhibition Building in Dublin Essay -- Architecture History

Dublin 1853 Main HallThis image is a beautiful color lithograph, measuring 25 by 35 inches, which features the important hall of the groovy order of battle Building in Dublin in great detail. The hall was 425 feet in length by carbon in width, and 105 in height. In the back there is a full-grown organ. Displayed high on the walls argon flags from different countries.The building is best set forth by The Illustrated Dublin Exhibition Catalogue, which says Presenting a front to Merrion-square of 300 feet, the of import or centre feature of elevation consists of a semicircular projection, which forms the eastern termination of the Central Hall. This in a noble apartment of 425 feet in length, and 100 feet in height, covered by a semicircular crownwork trellis robs, in one span of 100 feet. On each(prenominal) side of the Centre upon trellis ribs, in one span of 100 feet. On each side of the Centre Hall, and running parallel to it for the equivalent length, are two halls 5 0 feet wide, with domed roofs, similar to that which covers the main nave or hall of the building. The Height from the floor to the roof of each of these halls is 65 feet. They are approached through passages from the Centre Hall. In addition to these three halls are cardinal compartments of 25 feet wide, running the whole length of the building two are placed between the Centre Hall and the side halls, and two on each side of the latter divided into sections of 25 feet square, forming convenient divisions for the purposes of classification. everywhere these compartments are spacious galleries, also running the length of the building, which not solo afford increased space for exhibition, but form an agreeable saunter from whence the effect of the three halls may be seen to greater advantage. To the in the south ... ...or, which do its splendid halls themselves, examples of an incentives to something higher and grander in design than had before been achieve (Sproule). The Buil ding itself was perhaps the most successful novelty exhibited, both in Art and Manufacture (Sproule).No information on the fate of the Great Exhibition Building, other than it no longer stands and no attempt was made to rebuild the structure with more permanent materials.Works CitedFindling, John E., editor, historic Dictionary of Worlds Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988. New York Greenwood Press, 1990. p. 10-11Ingram, J.S., The Centennial Exposition Described and Illustrated. St. Louis Hubbard Bros., 1876. p. 31-33The Illustrated Dublin Exhibition Catalogue. London Virtue, 1853. p. v Sproule, John. Irish Industrial Exhibition 1853. London William S. Orr & Co., 1854. p. 27-41.