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Like the Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House is the most famous building in the city.

-/kloc-October 29th, 1957 John Wu Zhong stood out from 233 global entries and became the award-winning architect of this design competition.

-Construction started in March 1959.

-The top of the tallest shell is 67.4m (222ft) higher than Sydney Harbour, which is half the height of the nearby Harbour Bridge (134m).

-The Sydney Opera House has 20,000 lamps. Its shiny white sail consists of 1, 057,000 Swedish tiles.

-The grand site of the Opera House was originally the Bennelong Point tram factory, which opened on 1902. In the 1950 s, the trams in Sydney were gradually eliminated by buses, and the electric carport became redundant. It was demolished in 1958 to make way for the construction of Sydney Opera House.

-Use 6225 square meters of glass and 645 kilometers of cable.

-Queen Elizabeth II opened on1October 20th. 1973.

-More than 2 million people come here to watch the show every year.

-Joern Utzon's design was selected from 233 entries in the 1956 international competition.

-Sydney Opera House was listed on the National Heritage List on February 3rd, 2003/KLOC-0.

-The building covers an area of 1.8 hectares, and the roof is composed of 29 14 prefabricated components, with a total weight of about 26,700 tons.

-200 1 year architect j? Rn Utzon was asked to supervise the renovation of his building as a consultant.

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Night view:

Sydney Opera House at night

Sydney Opera House has about/kloc-0.000 rooms, including five theaters, five rehearsal rooms, two halls, four restaurants, six bars and many souvenir shops.

The roof of the house consists of 1 0,056,000 smooth white granite tiles imported from Sweden. Although they are self-cleaning, they still need regular maintenance and replacement. The interior of the house consists of pink granite mined in Tarana, New South Wales, and wood and brush box plywood supplied in northern New South Wales.

The five constituent theaters of Sydney Opera House are Concert Hall (seating 2679 seats), Opera House (1547 seats), Drama Theatre (544 seats), Theater (398 seats) and Studio Theatre (364 seats). The smallest building is the location of Bennelong restaurant.

The concert hall contains the Grand Organ of the Sydney Opera House, which is the largest mechanical tracking organ in the world, with more than10,000 pipes.

The theater is placed in a series of large shells and conceived by dissecting a hemisphere. The concert hall and opera house are located in the largest shell, and other theaters are located on both sides of the shell. Large-scale free public performances are often performed in front of the monument steps, which lead to the base of the main shell. A group of much smaller shells are placed on one side of the memorial steps, and there is a formal restaurant inside.

History:

history

It can be said that the Sydney Opera House was started in the late1940s with the efforts of eugene goossens, then president of the New South Wales Conservatory of Music, who lobbied for the construction of a venue suitable for large-scale theatrical performances. At that time, the normal venue for such performances was Sydney City Hall, but the venue was not big enough. By 1954, goossens had successfully won the support of New South Wales Governor Joseph Cahill, who called for the design of a special opera house.

It was also goossens who insisted on choosing Cape Benellon as the location of the Opera House. Cahill wants it to be located at or near Wynyard Railway Station in the northwest of Sydney's Central Business District.

The competition organized by Cahill received 233 entries. 1955 what is the basic design for final acceptance? Danish architect rn Utzon. Utzon arrived in Sydney on 1957 to help supervise the project.

The mcquarrie Fort tram station occupied the site when these plans were implemented, and was demolished in 1958. The official construction of the Opera House began in 1959. This project is built in three stages. The first stage (1959–1963) includes the construction of the upper podium. The second stage (1963–1967) witnessed the construction of the shell. The third stage includes interior design and construction (1967–73).

The first stage started on1February 5 1958, and the civil engineering company started working on the platform on May 5 1959. Civic. The government has been asking to start work so early because they are worried that money or public opinion may be against them. However, the main structural problems still plague the design (the most obvious is the sail, which was still parabolic at that time).

By 1 March 23rd, 196 1, the progress of the project was 47 weeks behind schedule, mainly due to unexpected difficulties (wet weather, unexpected difficulties in transferring rainwater, starting construction before the appropriate engineering drawings were ready, and changes in the original contract documents). On August 3,1,1962, the work of the rostrum was finally completed.

In the second stage, the shell was originally designed as a series of parabolas, but the engineer Arup and his partners have not found an acceptable solution to build them. In the middle of 196 1 year, Utzon submitted his solution to this problem to engineers. All shells are ribs generated from a sphere with the same radius. This not only satisfied the engineers, but also greatly shortened the project time (it also allowed the roof tiles to be prefabricated in sheets on the ground instead of being pasted separately in mid-air), and also created a wonderful shape that can be recognized at a glance today. Ove Arup and partners supervised the construction of the shell, which was completed on April 6th (1962) and is expected to be completed between August 1964 and March 1965. As of 1965, the estimated completion time of the second phase is July 1967.

The third stage, interior decoration, began in February 1963, and Utzon moved his entire office to Sydney. However, there was a government change in 1965, and the new Askin government announced that the project is now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Works. 1965 10, Utzon submitted a timetable to Davis Hughes, Minister of Public Works, listing the completion dates of some projects in the third phase. It is worth noting that Hughes refused the permission to build the internal plywood prototype (at that time, Utzon was working closely with Ralph Symonds, an innovative plywood manufacturer based in Sydney). This eventually forced Utzon to leave the project on February 28th, 1966. He said that Hughes' refusal to pay any fees and lack of cooperation led to his resignation, which he later described as "Brandland's malice". In March of 1966, Hughes offered him a position of "design architect", which belonged to an executive architect group and had no supervision over the construction of the house, but Utzon refused this request.

Even in that year 10, the cost of the project was only $22.9 million, less than a quarter of the final cost.

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