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Sydney Opera House |
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Sydney Opera HousePerforming-arts centre on the harbour in Sydney, Australia. Its dynamic, imaginative design by Danish architect Jørn Utzon (b. 1918) won a competition in 1957 and brought Utzon international fame. Construction posed a variety of problems, many resulting from the bold design consisting of a series of glittering white shell-shaped roofs. After several years of research, Utzon gave the vaults a more spherical geometry, making them easier and more economical to build. The roofs are made up of precast concrete sections held together by cables. The centre finally opened in 1973. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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98) is the swan song from Crowded House recorded in 1996 at the Sydney Opera House. He fully supported Jorn Utzon after his dismissal from the Sydney Opera House project and perhaps not surprisingly took up arms in a stance in the 1970s--shared with his lecture audiences throughout the world--against the spurious historicist notions of Post-Modernism and those he referred to as the anti-rationalists. Gibson's Stations of the Cross would begin with the Last Supper, staged at the famous Sydney Opera House on the harbor, and move to St. |
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