Thursday, August 5, 2010

Sydney Opera House


The Sydney Opera House designed by a Danish architect Jørn Utzon(9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008), the unexpected winner of the design competition in 1957. He controversially resigned from the building in 1966 which was finally completed in 1973. He was not invited to the ceremony and never returned to Australia to see his completed design.
What is the design based on - a nun's hat, the sails of a yacht, the segments of an orange?

9 comments:

  1. Beautiful and very dramatic image. It was based on sails.

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  2. Ah! The Opera House. What we always think of when imagining the coastline in Sydney. Love to see the interior. Got links?

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  3. Now THAT is a perspective I have not seen before. Did you do something in particular to get it to sit up there like a cocky's comb?

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  4. I love the Sydney Opera House. It is nice to go there and see what sort of performances are being put on.

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  5. Great angle. Can't remember ever seeing it from there before.

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  6. That's a different angle. Actually I remember reading about how he did it with the segments of an orange. Our daughter works there as a production manager when she's not on maternity leave like now. Bill nicknames it."Sonya's Workshop"

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  7. This is the first time I've seen the Opera House from this angle. I like it.

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  8. Not least among Utzon's disclosures is that, contrary to popular belief, his inspiration for the building's roof came not from white sails but a segmented orange. "It just happened that white sails were similar," smh 1992

    The angle is just from the North Eastern corner.

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  9. This amazing building looks interesting from every possible angle. The stone material used here came from Sweden, but you probably knew that already.

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