Happy Birthday To An Iconic Building

[PeterRS]

50 years ago today one of the world's great iconic buildings opened. Its design and consturction had undergone huge problems, not least the firing of its designer Jørn Utzon, the near impossibility of constructing its 'sails', completion was 10 years late, the budget overran 14 times, and politicians interfering by insisting on a highly controversial rearrangement of its interior venues. Yet the Sydney Opera House has become Australia's most visited tourist attraction and is admired the world over.

While the world has marvelled, I doubt if Utzon ever imagined that his baby would become a projection screen. Each Australian summer there is a Fesitval in Sydney when images are projected on to the structure. Many are stunning and I attach a selection. The most moving surely was a special projection to mark Anniversary Day of the end of WWI with a simple series of poppies.

 

[Keithambrose]

Great pictures. I am in Sydney in 2 weeks, and my hotel room looks over the harbour, and the Opera House, so I will see if anything is planned! 

[PeterRS]

Unfortunately only the first is mine. A long time ago one company I worked for put me up in the Sydney Park Hyatt across from the Opera House which was framed in the window. An amazing sight to wake up to.