1982		CRYSTAL PALACE
Location		JAPAN
Project Type		International Design Competition
Sponsor		Central Glass Co., LTD.
Cosponsor		Shinkechiku-Sha Co., LTD.
Architect of Record		Dima Zaitsev, Leonid Batalov
Publication		The Japan Architect No 309, January 1983
Award		Honorable Mention
The program of the Central Glass International Design Competition 1982 stated that the Original Crystal Palace built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 was a remarkable achievement both as an idea and a new construction method. The program asked for an equally powerful concept of a contemporary structure made of glass.
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PROJECT NARRATIVE
Sonnet 31
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;
And there reigns love, and all love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things removed, that hidden in thee lie!
Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give;
That due of many now is thine alone:
Their images I loved I view in thee,
And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.
William Shakespeare
		Original Crystal Palace built for the Great Exhibition of 1851
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		Model, glass, plastic, wood
		Drawing, gouache on vinyl
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