What do you get when you mix a handful of orange peels, a bushel of palm
fronds and a Maya temple? If you’re Danish architect Jørn Utzon, you
dream up an opera house that will, almost single-handedly, turn a
faraway city into a global capital. The Sydney Opera House is a landmark
on the city skyline, a lighthouse for ferries entering the harbor, a
projection screen for Sydney’s myriad festivals and a barometer of
global artistic talent. Utzon’s dream building is many things, but above
all, it’s an architectural marvel that was built well ahead of its
time, far ahead of the available technology, and one that changed the
image of an entire country.What do you get when you mix a handful of orange peels, a bushel of palm
fronds and a Maya temple? If you’re Danish architect Jørn Utzon, you
dream up an opera house that will, almost single-handedly, turn a
faraway city into a global capital. The Sydney Opera House is a landmark
on the city skyline, a lighthouse for ferries entering the harbor, a
projection screen for Sydney’s myriad festivals and a barometer of
global artistic talent. Utzon’s dream building is many things, but above
all, it’s an architectural marvel that was built well ahead of its
time, far ahead of the available technology, and one that changed the
image of an entire country.
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