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The Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th-century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. The Sydney Opera House is a modern [|expressionist design], with a series of large precast concrete [|shells] , forming the roofs of the structure set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares of land and is 183m long and 120m wide at its widest point. The Sydney Opera House has about 1000 rooms, including five theatres, five rehearsal studios, two main halls, four restaurants, six bars and numerous souvenir shops. Planning for the Sydney Opera House began in the late 1940s, when Eugene Goossens, dream for a venue for large theatrical productions but it was not considered large enough. A [|design competition] was launched on 13 September 1955 and received 233 entries. The criteria specified a large hall seating 3,000 and a small hall for 1,200 people, each to be designed for different uses .The winner, announced in 1957, was [|Jørn Utzon], a Danish architect. Utzon visited Sydney in 1957 to help supervise the project.

The Opera House was formally completed in 1973, having cost $102 million. The original cost estimate in 1957 was 7 million. Because of this, Utzon had a tense relationship with the contractors. The government wanted this to be a fast, easy and economic project, but Utzon was unwilling to compromise on some aspects of his designs that the clients wanted to change. Utzon left the project on 28 February 1966. I think that Sydney Opera House must be part of The Wonder of the World because it represents the immensely complex geometries of some modern architecture. The design is also one of the first in the world to use [|araldite] to [|glue] the precast structural elements together and proved the concept for future use. The Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous buildings in history. Its design draws much attention and is one of the most visited in the world.

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