Great Exhibition Building in Dublin Essay -- Architecture History

capital of Ireland 1853 Main HallThis image is a beautiful color lithograph, measuring 25 by 35 inches, which features the principal(prenominal) hall of the Great Exhibition Building in Dublin in great detail. The hall was 425 feet in length by 100 in width, and cv in height. In the back there is a large organ. Displayed high on the walls be flags from different countries.The building is best described by The Illustrated Dublin Exhibition Catalogue, which says Presenting a front to Merrion-squ are of 300 feet, the main 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 roof trellis robs, in one baffle of 100 feet. On each side of the Centre upon trellis ribs, in one span of 100 feet. On each side of the Centre Hall, and rail parallel to it for the same length, are two halls 50 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 four 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. Over these compartments are spacious galleries, also running the length of the building, which not only afford increased space for exhibition, but form an agreeable promenade from whence the government issue of the three halls may be seen to greater advantage. To the south ... ...or, which made its splendid halls themselves, examples of an incentives to something higher and grander in design than had before been attained (Sproule). The Building itself was perhaps the around s uccessful novelty exhibited, both in Art and Manufacture (Sproule).No information on the fate of the Great Exhibition Building, other than it no lifelong stands and no attempt was made to rebuild the structure with more permanent materials.Works CitedFindling, John E., editor, Historical Dictionary of Worlds Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988. New York Greenwood Press, 1990. p. 10-11Ingram, J.S., The Centennial Exposition expound 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.