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One of the most intriguing and innovative buildings in the world is the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Opera House contains 8 major rooms, and can normally holds 3,000 events a year. The interesting features of the Sydney Opera House include its history and its relation to geometry. One of the interesting features about the Sydney Opera House is its History dating back to 1957. The chief architect, Jorn Utzon, was selected through a competition created by NSW Government to find the most intriguing design for the new building they wanted to erect. The beginning of the project started in 1959. Utzon had many design plans for what the Sydney Opera House could become, but unfortunately the main money supplier dropped out because of how much it would cost. Jorn Utzon was forced to leave the project in 1966 unfinished. A new team of architects took over up until 1973 when Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Sydney Opera House to the public. The total cost of the project was an estimated 102 million dollars, and took about 14 years to complete. At least it was worth it, because now the Sydney Opera House is one of the most spectacular architectural designs in the world, and the public should thank Jorn Utzon for accomplishing most of it. One of the relations between the Sydney Opera House and geometry is the estimated area of it. This relates to geometry because finding the area of a shape is geometry. The width of the Sydney Opera House is 120 meters, while the length is 185 meters. Also, the height of the opera house is 65 meters high, so to find the area (if it were a rectangular prism) of the Sydney Opera House all there is to do is to multiply 120, 65, and 185. An estimated answer of what the area of the Sydney Opera House is 1,443,000m2. This means that the area of the Sydney Opera House is about 160 times the size of the inside of a Boeing 747. This shows one of the relationships between the Sydney Opera House and Geometry. Along with the Sydney Opera House relating to geometry through the area, it also relates to geometry through sound waves. One of the interesting relations between the opera house and geometry is how long it takes a sound wave to travel the length of the Sydney Opera House. This relates to geometry because of finding the perimeter or distance from length to length. To find out how long it takes a sound wave to travel the length of the opera house, the equation can be set up as a proportion. The proportion would be set up as x over 185 meters is equal to the speed of sound (761) over 60. The answer is that it would take about twenty-two thousandths of a second for a sound waves to travel the length of the Sydney Opera House. Another possible way to figure it out would be to just do the length divided by the speed of sound. In the end, the Sydney Opera House also relates to geometry because of how long it takes a sound wave to travel the entire distance of the Sydney Opera House. Overall, this essay is to convey interests in the Sydney Opera House, and make people feel differently about how long its history is, and its relations to geometry. In conclusion, the Sydney Opera House is amazing in history, and there are two reasons about how it relates to geometry.

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