Sydney Opera House
Landmark
A theatre with a roof like white sails in Sydney Harbour.
The Sydney Opera House stands on a point of land in Sydney Harbour. With its white roofs like sails it is one of the best-known buildings of the last hundred years.
The Danish architect Jørn Utzon won the competition for the design in 1957. Building was supposed to take four years. It took fourteen, and the Opera House opened in 1973.
- opened
- 1973
- roof tiles
- 1 million+
- years to build
- 14
- 1
All the roof shells are cut from the surface of one and the same sphere, like pieces of orange peel.
- 2
Utzon left Australia before it was finished and never saw his building completed.
- 3
The white tiles clean themselves: the rain washes them.
Question 1 of 2
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