THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1365, 13 December 1872, Page 2

THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

The situation of the Exhibition Palace ;is admirable, lying in the h'e^rt of a j^rkunsurpassed for beauty by apy in Europe. The area apportioned tn the Exhibition will embrace about four or, five English square miles. The covered space available for the Exhibition will be about 1,150,000 square feet, being considerably more than that occupied by the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The Exhibition building will be 905 metres . long by 205 metres wide. It will contain one main gallery or nave, intersecting the whole edifice. This gallery has cross-galleries or transepts on each side, which are so placed as not to obstruct the view from either end. Between the transepts and the nave lie the garden courts, which will also be available for exhibition purposes, and each country will have one of these transepts allotted to it, together with the portion of the nave and transepts adjoining A rotunda will be from the centre of the building, and divide the main building in the middle. This rotunda, when finished, will be the largest canopy-shaped edifice without supports that has ever been" erected. It has a aiaffidler of 102 metres, and its height is 79 metres. The whole will be constructed of iron, after a design by Mr Scott Russell.: Buildings of a permanent character sufficiently protected willbe provided for the exhibition of works of fine art. From; the chiei building covered galleries lead to a large conservatory and to .< smaller pavilions, which are intended for the exhibition of, horticultural productions, aquarii, &c. A separate hall will be erected for machinery in motion, 880 metres in length, and 28 metres in width. In this hall will be found hydraulic machines, diving apparatus, &c. The Imperial villa and the hall in which the jury will deliberate and make their awards will also be -erected in the grounds, which will be laid out under the direction of a landscape gardener of great reputation. . . i