THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1023, 19 November 1872, Page 2

THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

[the times.] The situation of the Exhibition Palace is admira'do, lying in the heart of the park unsurpassed for beauty by any in Europe. The area apportioned to the Exhibition will embrace about four to 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 ISO 7. The Exhibition building will be 905 metres long by 'lOo metres wide. It will contain one main gallery, or nave, intersecting the wholeedifice. This gallery has crossgalleries 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 or more of these transepts allotted to it, together with the portion of the nave and transepts adjoining. A rotunda will rise from the centre of the building, and divide the main building in the middle This rotunda, when finished, will be the largest canopyshaped edifice without supports that has ever been erected. It has a diameter of 102 metres, and its height is 79 metres. The whole will be constructed of iron, after a design by Mr Scott Eussel. Buildings of a permanent character sufficiently protected will be provided for the exhibition of works of fine arts. Erom_ the chief building covered galleries lead to a large conservatory and to smaller pavilions, which are intended for the exhibition of horticultural productions, aquaria, &c. A separate ball will be erected for machinery in motion, S9O metres in length, and 28 meteres in width. Iu 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.