sydney opera house schedule Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/sydney-opera-house-schedule Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:18:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Sydney Opera House Australia http://travelsfinders.com/sydney-opera-house-australia.html http://travelsfinders.com/sydney-opera-house-australia.html#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:04:59 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220940 1957-73 OPERA HOUSE SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA J0RN UTZON In 1956 the government of New South Wales, Australia, announced an international competition to design a new opera house for Sydney. The site was Benelong Point, a promontory with views to the sea and the famous Harbour Bridge. Many architects submitted proposals, and the winner was J0rn Utzon, a Danish architect little known outside his home country. Utzon’s design incorporated a series of sculptural white roofs that swept up from near the ground, like the billowing sails of the yachts on the water beyond. It was undoubtedly the stunning form of these roofs,

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