biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1800–81)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in London, UK. At the age of 23 he planned the Regent's Park colosseum, an exhibition hall with a dome larger than that of St Paul's, and in 1825 designed the new layout of Hyde Park and the triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner. He designed the Palm House at Kew Gardens (1844–8) with engineer Richard Turner. |
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