The Palm House

Schönbrunn

The Palm House is one of four greenhouses of Schönbrunn Palace Park. Intended to house the large botanical collection of Archduke Maximilian, who had circumnavigated the globe, it was designed by court architect Franz Xaver von Segenschmid using the most modern technology of the time. Segenschmid and his structural engineer took a radically different approach in their design: they exposed the steel skeleton on the exterior. The structure thus becomes an expression, even a celebration, of the utility and beauty of steel as a building material.

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