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  2. Sydney Opera House - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour , it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings, and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture.

  3. Davis Hughes - Wikipedia

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    With the election of the Askin government in 1965, Hughes became Minister for Public Works, [3] with responsibility for, among other things, the completion of the Sydney Opera House. Hughes refused to accept Jørn Utzon's approach to managing the Opera House project and, specifically, the construction of plywood prototypes for its interiors ...

  4. Architecture of Sydney - Wikipedia

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    Victorian sandstone buildings juxtaposed with modern skyscrapers The Sydney Opera House by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. The architecture of Sydney, Australia’s oldest city, is not characterised by any one architectural style, but by an extensive juxtaposition of old and new architecture over the city's 200-year history, from its modest beginnings with local materials and lack of ...

  5. Peter Hall (architect) - Wikipedia

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    Peter Brian Hall (16 May 1931 – 19 May 1995) was an Australian architect active in Sydney and elsewhere from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Schooled in the tenets of modernism his practice was also informed by a strong sense of the importance of function and context in design.

  6. Postmodern architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon (1918–2008), is one of the most recognizable of all works of postwar architecture, and spans the transition from modernism to postmodernism. Construction began in 1957, but it was not completed until 1973 due to difficult engineering problems and growing costs.

  7. The Eighth Wonder - Wikipedia

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    The opera consists of two acts, with a total of 15 scenes including Parliament House, the construction site and the suburban backyard where the young artists spend time with their families. The opera concludes leaving the audience with a sense of loss for the complete vision that was never realised but also with an enormous sense of gratitude ...