Вариант 51

Early in her reign, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, had a plan to hold a great world-wide exhibition of modern art and design. Sir Joseph Paxton, a botanist and landscape (29) , won the competition to create the central exhibition hall. The (30) he produced is still admired by architects today. Although at that time many thought it was (31) to realize such a project. In 1851, Paxton constructed his Crystal Palace – an (32) glass and iron pavilion, over a third of a mile long, with 800,000 square feet of floor space. The construction was an ultramodern iron frame with glass panels. The exhibition was very (33) – it drew over six million visitors. (34) , the Crystal Palace was taken apart in 1854.