The Crystal Year: Crystal Wisdom Through the Seasons

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These main gutters drained at either end into the cast iron columns, which also had an ingenious dual function: each was cast with a hollow core, allowing it to double as a concealed down-pipe that carried the storm-water down into the drains beneath the building. The building, unlike the Hyde Park building, was elevated several metres above the surrounding grounds, and two large transepts were added at either end of the main gallery. The 900,000 square feet (84,000m 2) of glass was provided by the Chance Brothers glassworks in Smethwick. Meanwhile, Spielberg believed he was going to mature as a filmmaker after making the trilogy and felt his role in any future installments would be relegated to that of mere producer.The Crystal Palace at Sydenham continued the observance, opening only to shareholders on Sundays: "Crystal Palace History Open again". After a visit to London as a tourist during the Expedition of 1862, Fyodor Dostoevsky made reference to the Palace in his travelogue " Winter Notes on Summer Impressions" and in Notes from Underground. The envelope of the crystal-shaped design aims to both reflect the building's context whilst also having a degree of transparency to help connect the building with its surroundings. A number of production photos and sensitive documents pertaining to the film's production budget were also stolen from Spielberg's production office.

Once the ground floor structure was complete, the final assembly of the upper floor followed rapidly. That which included a description of the dinosaurs was entitled: 'Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World. Shooting began on June 18, 2007, at various locations in New Mexico, New Haven, Connecticut, Hawaii, and Fresno, California, as well as on sound stages in Los Angeles.An extensive chase scene set at the fictional Marshall College was filmed between June 28 and July 7 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (where Spielberg's son Theo was studying). It was changed to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as Spielberg found it more inviting a title and actually named the plot device of the crystal skulls. The reconstruction was recorded for posterity by Philip Henry Delamotte, and his photographs were widely disseminated in his published works. Many famous people visited The Crystal Palace especially during its early years, including the likes of Emma Darwin, the wife of Charles Darwin who noted in her diary on 10 June 1854, "Opening Crystal Pal". A colourful description of a visit to the Crystal Palace appears in John Davidson's poem "The Crystal Palace", published in 1909.