Hello 5th graders! On our walking tour through Sydney, Australia Adrian also talked to us about the Sydney Opera House. According to Adrian, it took 15 years to construct and it cost 102 million Australian dollars! (By today's standards, it would have been 2.2 billion Australian dollars!). The design of the building was actually decided through a contest. Architects from all over the world submitted their ideas and Danish architect, Jorn Utzon, won! (They had a total of 250 entries submitted for the contest). These are the words of the winner regarding his unique design:
"I imagined peeling an orange and putting it back together."
The Sydney Opera House was one of the very first major buildings in the world that used computers to aid in the design process. The first year that the Sydney Opera House opened was in 1973.
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