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SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Page 1 SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Booklet available in English on Heft in deutscher Sprache erhältlich auf Livret disponible en français sur Folleto disponible en español en Folheto disponível em português em Architecture.LEGO.com A füzet magyarul ezen a honlapon olvasható:...
- Page 2 The massive concrete sculptural shells that form modern architecture and an iconic building of the 20th the roof of Sydney Opera House appear like billowing century. It is admired internationally and proudly treasured sails filled by the sea winds with the sunlight and cloud by the people of australia.
- Page 4 History The history of Sydney Opera House is as extraordinary and complex as the building itself. It is a story of vision, courage, dedication, challenge, controversy and triumph. many remarkable elements include submission of a visionary design that the judges courageously selected as the winner;...
- Page 5 Jørn utzon, was the unanimous winner. Both the architectural fraternity and the public were amazed by the design and found it to be a spectacular response to the brief and the site. Model of Sydney Opera House. © State Records NSW...
- Page 6 The scale of construction of Sydney Opera House construct the large roof shells. While the podium was was enormous. Over 30 000 cubic metres of rock and soil...
- Page 7 The Podium takes shape at Bennelong Sydney Opera house during Sydney Opera House is a significant feat of engineering and technology Point. Photograph by Max Dupain and construction. Photograph by Max involving ingenuity and creativity in many aspects of its design and construction.
- Page 8 Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973 in front of a large crowd. The opening was also televised and included fireworks and a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The opening of Sydney Opera House in 1973. Photograph by Max Dupain and Associates...
- Page 9 It would be over 30 years before the architect would be reunited with his masterpiece. after a number of approaches, conversations and meetings, utzon agreed in 1999 to be re-engaged to develop a set of design principles that would act as a guide for all future changes to the building.
- Page 10 Sydney Opera House is an exceptional building. Its The auditoria are carved out of the high north end of the architectural form comprises three groups of interlocking podium so that they face south, towards the city, with the vaulted ‘shells’, set upon a vast terraced podium and...
- Page 11 In 2007 Sydney Opera House was inscribed in the World Heritage List: “List, described as "a great" architectural work of the 20th century. It represents multiple strands of creativity, both in architectural form and structural design, a great urban sculpture carefully set in a remarkable waterscape and a world famous iconic building.”...
- Page 12 Jørn utzon [ I like to be on the edge of the possible. ] Jørn utzon Jørn utzon was born on april 9 1918 in Copenhagen, denmark. He grew up in the town of aalborg, where his father was a naval architect and engineer and director of the local shipyard.
- Page 13 Le Corbusier and the It was utzon’s life and travels that had shaped his sculptor Henri Laurens, whose influence taught him much ideas for Sydney Opera House. Though he had never about form. visited the site, he used his maritime background to a major project took him to Morocco;...
- Page 14 Kuwait (1983) can be traced directly back to his original vision for Sydney Opera House. The reconciliation with Sydney Opera House in 1999 brought utzon great pleasure. In 2003, the same year the Opera House celebrated its 30th birthday, Jørn utzon was awarded the pritzker prize for architecture, the highest award in its field.
- Page 15 Footprint: ......1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) Height: ....... 67 m. (220 ft.) Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. © Michael Moy Idea to Icon Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong point, where, for and Torres Strait Islander cultures make to the diversity of the thousands of years prior to european settlement, local aboriginal australian community.
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- Page 17 1x 1x “The architect's gift to society is to bring joy to the people from the surroundings he creates” Jørn Utzon...
- Page 21 1x 1x "The people of Sydney have made the Opera House a signature for Sydney, which you see everywhere in the world in di≠ erent editions... but no one is ever in any doubt that this means Sydney and this means Australia... in my opinion, a situation such as this, where a building is having a great impact on a city is a rare thing"...
- Page 25 "Sydney Opera House has shown that architecture can have an impact greater than just 50 feet away from it. It can be emotional. It can engage a world. And I think we should all be grateful for that example in our time."...
- Page 29 “I like to think the Sydney Opera House is like a musical instrument, and like any fi ne instrument, it needs a little maintenance and fi ne tuning, from time to time, if it is to keep on performing at the highest level."...
- Page 35 1x 1x The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land and is 183 meters (605 ft) long and 120 meters (388 ft) wide at its widest point. It is supported on concrete piers sunk as much as 25 meters (82 fi ) below sea level.
- Page 41 ‘The sun did not know how beautiful its light was, until it was refl ected o≠ this building’ American architect Louis Kahn, quoted by Jørn Utzon...
- Page 47 Sydney Opera House provides a venue for many performing arts companies including its fi ve key resident companies Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, the Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Company.
- Page 53 “To me it is a great joy to know how much the building is loved, by Australians in general and by Sydneysiders in particular” Jørn Utzon...
- Page 59 "So going to the Opera House is a succession of visual and audio stimuli, which increase in intensity as you approach the building, as you enter and fi nally sit down in the halls, culminating with the performance." Jørn Utzon...
- Page 63 “You never get tired, you will never be fi nished with it—when you pass around it or see it against the sky... something new goes on all the time... together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.”...
- Page 67 “The structure and strict geometry expresses the logic of the building.” Jørn Utzon...
- Page 71 4x 4x The shells were constructed using 2200 precast sections and around 4000 prefabricated roof panels in an entirely new construction process.
- Page 75 “and in the roofs, the large amount of white tiles sub- divided into segments are like the structure of a leaf which, with its ribs and infi ll have an organic beauty of its own” Jørn Utzon...
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- Page 80 However, I quickly discovered the form came to me while building a model of Buzz Lightyear™. LeGO brick was lending itself as naturally to my applications His boots used these specialized curved elements which as paint to a painter or metal to a blacksmith. as I explore...
- Page 81 LeGO system, and asked his designers to come up with a normal brightly coloured LeGO boxes, and also included set of new components that would add a new dimension ‘an architectural Book’...
- Page 82 architecture series...
- Page 83 Landmark series References Text credits: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ™ Photo credits: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ™ Michael Moy State Records NSW Max Dupain and Associates Ralph Alfonso Customer Service Kundenservice Service Consommateurs Servicio Al Consumidor www.lego.com/service or dial 00800 5346 5555 :...