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Victor Contamin

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design of Palais des Machines

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Construction in iron and glass

    …exhibition) by Ferdinand Dutert and Victor Contamin, a series of three-hinged trussed arches sprang from small points across a huge space, 385 feet (117 metres) long and 150 feet (45 metres) high. Similar spaces had already been created in railway stations in England such as St. Pancras, London (1864–68, by…

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