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• - Don Barker explains the history of the great neoclassical British Museum designed by Robert Smirke in the context of the new steel and glass roof.
  
• - Great Buildings Online provides images and information on a selection of buildings in Europe, North American and Japan designed for exhibition purposes.
  
• - The official site gives brief details an an historic image of the buildings at its core designed by Sir Robert and Sidney Smirke and erected between the 1820s and 1850s.
  
• - Information on the architect, location, date, construction system, context and style of a world selection from Great Buildings Online.
  
• - Computer models of this Victorian marvel designed by Joseph Paxton from the University of Virginia, with an illustrated account of its history and construction.
  
• - Jonathan Glancey admires the Great Court in the British Museum. He describes the history of the building and the new roof over the court.
  
• - An illustrated outline from the official site of the remarkable Victorian buildings in South Kensington, designed by Waterhouse and decorated with carvings of animals and plants.
  
• - Group dedicated to preserving the history of the Crystal Palace, who have created a museum on the site. Includes images and a history of the building after the Great Exhibition closed in October 1851.