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The future challenges the landmark faces, including the ambitious goal of full decarbonization and adapting to rising sea ...
When the Sydney Opera House opened in 1973, it thrust Australia’s biggest city onto the world stage. Find out about its fasicnating history and the best things to do there.
The opera house seemed like the right place for their protest, since “most people around Sydney have some sort of connection with the building”, Saunders told Al Jazeera in an interview ahead ...
The Sydney Opera House, which officially opened on 20 October 1973 after 14 years of construction, is widely regarded as a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture and stands as a symbol of ...
The creation of the Sydney Opera House was an arduous process, marked by setbacks and compromise. Its genesis was in 1947, when the Sydney Symphony hired a British conductor, ...
Sydney Opera House is ranked #2 out of 20 things to do in Sydney. See pictures and our review of Sydney Opera House.
The Sydney Opera House Lottery, which ran from 1957 until 1986, raised the $102 million it cost to build; architect Jørn Utzon even drew the winner of lottery number three in April 1958.
The Sydney Opera House was and still is a novelty, almost universally admired for its beauty. But there is more: the Danish architect Jørn Utzon conceived it, perhaps not fully consciously, as an ...