Syon Park Conservatory

London, England

At Syon, the eighteenth-century orangery is transformed into an orchestrated interplay of solid materials and light. Neither the masonry nor the glass and metal dominate the composition; rather, the glass is liberated from its former function as windows. This concept of glass and metal as a singular expressive medium in architecture prefigures the grand glass palaces of the later nineteenth century and all of modern architecture to come. Syon Park Conservatory, one of the most famous in the world, straddles the line separating orangery from conservatory. It marks the high point of the orangery as a building type and the beginning of the true conservatory. 

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