The Sydney Opera House

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• The Sydney Opera House is a

modern expressionist design, with

a series of large precast concrete

shells, forming the roofs of the

structure set on a monumental

podium

• The building covers 1.8 hectares

of land and is 183m long and

120m wide.

• Planning for the Sydney Opera

House began in the late 40s,

when Eugene Goossens, dream for

a venue for large theatrical

productions but it was not

considered large enough.

Eugene Goossens

Jørn Utzon

• The winner was Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect. Utzon visited

Sydney in 1957 to help supervise the project.

•The Opera House was formally completed in 1973, having cost

$102 million

• Utzon had a tense relationship with the contractors

• Utzon left the project on 28 February 1966

• Represents the immensely complex

geometries of some modern

architecture.

• The design is also one of the first

in the world to use araldite

to glue the precast structural

elements together and proved the

concept for future use.

Why should it be part of the 7

wonders of the world?