Sydney Opera House: arkitektur og historie

The Opera House is the most popular building in australia / sydney.

It is located on Bennelong Point in the harbor in Sydney, with a park in the south and near the big bridge Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is 65 meters and has a length of 183 meters

The Opera House is designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Out of 230 proposals, he won the competition to build an opera house. He began building it in March 59 and 17 years later it was finished and it cost over 101 million dollars

The roof is made of 1,056,000 white-glazed tiles, imported from Sweden

for someone looks the roof of the opera house of some seashells or the sail on a ship. And many tourists come only to see that.

There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is a masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent and there have been many famous art works and theater spiece.

Sydney Opera House has about 1000 rooms, including five theaters, five exercise studios, two main halls, four restaurants, six bars and numerous of souvenir shops.