Britain's Crystal Palace, the Victorian exhibition center that was once the largest glass structure in the world, will be brought back to life with investment from Chinese developers.

The sculptures by Mr. Hawkins, who was one of the best-known natural history sculptors at the time, were supposed to educate and entertain visitors near the Crystal Palace, an exhibition space ...

A hidden Victorian subway in south-east London is set to be renovated after plans to restore it were approved. The subway was opened in 1865 as a grand entrance to the Crystal Palace, but it fell ...

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Crystal Palace Park. The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs were the creation of one of the best-known natural history sculptors of his time, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins ...

The Crystal Palace was the centerpiece of the Great Exhibition. It was built to house the show’s exhibitions, so you can imagine how enormous it was: a whopping 990,000 square feet of space.

The ornate, Victorian-era Crystal Palace is one of the most obsessed-over buildings of the past 200 years. Here’s why. In 1853, an enormous glass prism of a building–known as the Crystal ...

Crystal Palace have a unique name and have you ever wondered: 'hey, are Crystal Palace actually named after a, erm, ... Over 170 years later the legacy of the original, magnificent Victorian Crystal ...

Perhaps the most famous of these took place almost 170 years ago at Crystal Palace Park, in south-east London, where over 30 life-sized sculptures of prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs ...

A new study has revealed that London's Crystal Palace was built in just 190 days thanks to a now standard innovation - the screw thread. The design of the glass structure was approved in 1850 and ...

The grand Victorian subway fell into disrepair in the years since the Crystal Palace burned down.