Sydney Opera House

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The symbol of Australia

Sydney

Opera House is the most

representative Australia buildings. more can
be said Sydney City the soul. and are listed
in the list of buildings of world civilization.
Sydney Opera House began in 1959 has
been postponed several times because of
construction, was ridiculed as the Unfinished
Symphony

Description
The

Sydney Opera House is situated on

Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbor, close to
the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney
central business district, surrounded on three
sides by the harbor and neighbored by the
Royal Botanic Gardens.

A modern expressionist design.

With a series of large precast concrete "shells.

The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land

and is 183 m (605 ft) long and 120 m (388 ft) wide at
its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers
sunk as much as 25 m below sea level.

 Of

the two larger spaces, the Concert Hall is

located within the western group of shells.

The

Opera Theater within the eastern group.

The smaller venues are located within the podium,

beneath the Concert Hall.

The podium is surrounded by substantial open public

spaces, of which the large stone-paved forecourt
area with the adjacent monumental steps is also
regularly used as a performance space.

Performance venues and facilities

The

Concert Hall, with 2,678 seats, is the

home of the Sydney Symphony and used by
a large number of other concert presenters.

It

contains the Sydney Opera House Grand

Organ, the largest mechanical tracker action
organ in the world, with over 10,000 pipes.

The Concert Hall

 The

Opera Theater, a proscenium theatre

with 1,507 seats, is the Sydney home of
Opera Australia and The Australian Ballet.

The Opera Theater

 The

Drama Theater, a proscenium theatre

with 544 seats.

The

Forecourt, a flexible open-air venue with

a wide range of configuration options.

Jrn Utzon
Jrn

Utzon was burn on April 9, 1918 in

Copenhagen.
He received his Diploma in Architecture from
the Royal Acade heself of Fine Arts, in 1946,
he had his own arcitectural office.

Design and construction

 The

Fort Macquarie Tram Depot,

occupying the site at the time of these
plans, was demolished in 1958 and
formal construction of the Opera House
began in March 1959.

Stage I Podium
19591963
Stage I commenced on 2 March 1959.
By 23 January 1961, work was running 47
weeks behind, mainly because of
unexpected difficulties.
Work on the podium was finally completed in
February 1963.

Stage II Roof
19631967
From 1957 to 1963, the design team went
through at least twelve iterations of the form
of the shells trying to find an economically
acceptable form before a workable solution
was completed.

 In

mid-1961, the design team found a

solution to the problem: the shells all being
created as sections from a sphere.

They

finally selected the Swiss manufacturer

of ceramic Jonas Haag, The production of
tiles with a smooth surface, but the glass did
not have high reflectivity.

The shells were constructed by Hornibrook

Group Pty Ltd, who were also responsible for
construction in Stage III.
On

6 April 1962, it was estimated that the

Opera House would be completed between
August 1964 and March 1965.

Stage III: Interiors

19671973
Started with Utzon moving his entire office to
Sydney in February 1963.
The

new Robert Askin government declared

the project under the jurisdiction of the
Ministry of Public Works. Utzon's resignation
in 1966.

 Lothar

Cremer, confirmed to the Sydney

Opera House Executive Committee that
Utzon's original acoustic design only allowed
for 2000 seats in the main hall and further
stated that increasing the number of seats to
3000 as specified in the brief would be
disastrous for the acoustics.

Completion and cost

The

original cost estimate in 1957 was

3,500,000 ($7 million). The original
completion date set by the government was
26 January 1963 (Australia Day).

The

project was completed ten years late

and over-budget by more than fourteen times.

A big white swan

The sea outside the

harbor is the best place
to watch the Sydney
Opera House, from that
point over here, just like
the Sydney Opera
House is about to fly
the huge white swans.

Q&A
Who

is design Sydney Opera House ?

What

is the style of building ?

What

is a building look like ?

Jrn Utzon(John Utzon)

A modern expressionist
A big white swan

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