Sydney Opera House

Brief introduction
• The Sydney Opera House
was built by Jhon utzon. It
is one of the most famous
buildings in the world. It is
considered to be one of the
most recognizable images of
the modern world although
the building has been open
for only about 30 years.The
Sydney Opera House is as
representative of Australia
as the pyramids are of
Egypt.
 The Architecture
Function
• It is an opera
house, but
also includes
two theater, a concert
hall, 
• a restaurant, a
cinema, a number of
art galleries and
a library.
 The Architecture
Function
• The opera is divided
into three parts:
The Opera Hall, The
music hall and the
restaurant named
Benilan.

•
 The Structure
Function
• The Concert Hall:
• with 2,679 seats, the
home of the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra and
used by a large number of
other concert presenters. It
contains the Sydney Opera
House Grand Organ, the
largest mechanical tracker
action organ in the world,
with over 10,000 pipes.
 The Structure
Function
• The Joan Sutherland
Theatre:
• a proscenium theatre
with 1,507 seats, the
Sydney home of Opera
Australia and The
Australian Ballet. Until
16 October 2012 it was
known as the Opera
Theatre.
 The Structure
Function
• The Drama Theatre, a
proscenium theatre with 544
seats, used by the Sydney
Theatre Company and other
dance and theatrical
presenters.

• The Playhouse, an end stage

theatre with 398 seats.
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The opera, opened except Christmas day and the passion

of Jesus day, open 16 hours a day, an average of 10
different activities, can accommode more than 7000
people. The opera has become the most popular
places in Australia,  the audience in a continuous line from
morning till night. At night, people who
come here, not just to see the show, but
also to BeniLang restaurant to eat and to watch the night
scene, just  like the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the opera
house has become a symbol of Sydney.
 Contents
• B r ief intrduction
• Designer :Jorn Utzon
• The structure
• Performance venues and facilities
• Three stages of construction
• The beauty
• The ending
 The architect
John Utzon(9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008)
Utzon was born in 
Copenhagenthe son of a
naval engineer.
 The architect
John Utzon(9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008)

In 1957, Utzon unexpectedly

won the competition to design
the sydney opera house.

His submission was one of 233

designs from 32 countries, many
of them from the most famous
architects of the day.
 The architect
John Utzon(9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008)
Although he had won six
other architectural
competitions previously, the
Opera House was his first
non-domestic project. One of
the judges, Eero Saarinen,
described it as "genius" and
declared he could not endorse
any other choice.
 The Structure
• 6 225 square meters of glass
• 645 kilometers of electric cable
• 1 000 rooms.
• 185 meters long
• 120 meters wide.
• roof sections weight about 15 tons.
• 1 million tiles on the roof.
• 200 000 tourists each year.
 The Structure

• The Sydney opera house ,looks like a erecting

shell , and like two giant white sailing boats,
flying in the blue sea. But according to the
designers in his later life, his originality was
actually comes from the oranges. It is those off
half of the skin of the orange inspired him.

Maybe like this

 The Structure
• Although the roof structures are commonly
referred to as "shells" (as in this article), they are 
precast concrete panels supported by precast
concrete ribs, not shells in a strictly structural
sense.[13] Though the shells appear uniformly
white from a distance, they actually feature a
subtle chevron pattern composed of 1,056,006
tiles in two colours: glossy white as well as matte
cream. The tiles were manufactured by the
Swedish company Höganäs AB which generally
produced stoneware tiles for the paper-mill
industry.
 The Structure
• Apart from the tile of the shells
and the glass curtain walls of the
foyer spaces, the building's
exterior is largely clad with
aggregate panels composed of
pink granite quarried at Tarana.
Significant interior surface
treatments also include off-form
concrete, Australian white
birch plywood supplied
from Wauchopein northern New
South Wales, and brush
box glulam.
 Performance venues and facilities

It houses the following performance venues:

•The Concert Hall, with 2,679 seats, the home of the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra . It contains the Sydney Opera House
Grand Organ, the largest mechanical tracker action organ in the
world, with over 10,000 pipes.
•The Joan Sutherland Theatre, a proscenium theatre with 1,507
seats.
•The Drama Theatre, a proscenium theatre with 544 seats.
•The Playhouse, an end-stage theatre with 398 seats.
 Performance venues and facilities
• The Studio, a flexible space with a maximum capacity of 400,
depending on configuration.
• The Utzon Room, a small multi-purpose venue, seating up to
210.
• The Forecourt, a flexible open-air venue with a wide range of
configuration options, used for a range of community events
and major outdoor performances.
• Other areas (for example the northern and western foyers) are
also used for performances on an occasional basis. Venues are
also used for conferences, ceremonies and social functions.
 Stages of construction
• This building is not built overnight. It has experienced three
stages.
• Stage 1:sunk fence(1959---1963)
• Stage 2:the shell(1963---1967)
• Stage 3:Interior design and decoration(1967---1973)
The Beauty
D ay beauty Night beauty
inside beauty
 The Ending
• There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his
masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th
century, an image of great beauty that has become known
throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a
whole country and continent. 　
• In 2003 April, the architect Jorn Utzon won the 2003 Pulitzer
Prize for architecture,  Pulitzer Prize is finally admitted to Jorn
Utzon and his masterpiece.
Unfortunately,  the designer of the Sydney Opera House, in
his life, until his death were not seen his masterpiece.
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