Sydney Opera House

The « Sydney Opera House » is the emblem of the town of Sydney. The Opera of Sydney is located on the headland Bennelong Point, and offers a fantastic view on the port. Its gestation was long and complicated. It became the tourist attraction most popular of Sydney.
The project to build the Opera was born at the end of the years 1940 when Eugene Goossens, director of the Music college of the State of News-Wales of the South made countryside to obtain an adequate place with great theatrical and musical productions. In this time, such productions were held in the City hall of Sydney, but this one was not any more enough. Before 1954, Goossens succeeds to obtain the support of the Prime Minister of the State, Joseph Cahill, who orders a study.
It is to the Danish architect, Joern Utzon, that we owe the construction of this building.
The Opera has for dimension: 183 meters in lengths and 120 meters at the level of its biggest width. The building covers a surface of 2.2 hectares, sheets of roof weigh 161,000 tons and reach a 67 meter height. It is supported by 580 concrete pillars which are push up to 25 meters below the sea level.
The roof is made up of 1,056,006 tiles of white ceramics, inspired by bowls located by Joern Utzon in Japan. These tiles were produced by the Höganäs company, in Sweden after three years of tests to arrive at the desired result.
Its electric needs are equivalent those of a town of 25,000 inhabitants. The current is distributed by 645 kilometers of cables. It is organized mainly in two series of three large “shells” which recover the ones partially the others.
The construction of the Opera lasted from 1959 to 1973. It was marked in 1966 by the departure of Utzon following a dispute with the new government of New South Wales. The building was finished with a group of local architects. In the end, 102 000 000 Australian dollars will have been necessary for the construction of the Opera, although the forecasts of