6/21/2023 0 Comments Sydney opera house architect![]() ![]() The highest roof point is 67 meters above sea level which is the same height as that of a 22-story building. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 m (82 ft) below sea level. The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) of land and is 183 m (600 ft) long and 120 m (394 ft) wide at its widest point. The facility features a modern expressionist design, with a series of large precast concrete “shells”, each composed of sections of a sphere of 75.2 meters (246 ft 8.6 in) radius, forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The tram shed at Bennelong Point Circular Quay before the Sydney Opera House was built. It is Utzon’s masterpiece, yet he did not complete the building the creation of the huge oversailing roofs was a magnificent feat of engineering and collaboration, but the design team split apart amidst misunderstandings and recriminations. The story of its construction is one of triumph and tragedy. ![]() ![]() Since it opened in 173 the Opera House has repaid its A$100 million cost many times over as a tourist attraction and as a cultural center. The presentation of the prize places Utzon in the pantheon of the greatest contemporary architects but marks a career that failed to reach its full potential following the traumas of building the Opera House. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the twentieth century, an image of great beauty which has become known throughout the world─a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent’. The citation reads: ‘There is no doubt that Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. In April 2003 Jørn Utzon, at the age of 85, was awarded the Pritzker Prize ─architecture’s ‘Nobel’. Part of the shells which form the roof of the Sydney Opera House, still under construction after 10 years of work. ![]()
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