The Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. It was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon and took 14 years to complete between 1959-1973. The building houses several performance venues including a concert hall, two theaters and a restaurant. Its distinctive white sail-like roofs are made of 1 million tiles and the structure stands 120 meters wide and 185 meters long. The Sydney Opera House has become a global symbol of Australia.

1. Sydney Opera House
Function
Practicability
Architecture

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. The Architecture
Function
• The opera is
divided into three
parts: The Opera
Hall, The music
hall and the
restaurant named
Benilan.
•

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

9. Ending
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.

10. Contents
• Brief intrduction
• Designer :Jorn Utzon
• The structure
• Performance venues and facilities
• Three stages of construction
• The beauty
• The ending

11. The architect
John Utzon(9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008)
Utzon was born
in Copenhagenthe son of
a naval engineer.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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)

24. The Beauty

25. Day beauty Night beauty

26. inside beauty

27. 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.

28. The Ending
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