Sydney Opera House [Bennelong Point, Sydney Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Oceania] .
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Al Pidgen / Imagine Images / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
AX31ERFile size:
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5070 x 3380 px | 42.9 x 28.6 cm | 16.9 x 11.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
15 June 2007Location:
Bennelong Point, Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania. .More information:
The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. Designed by Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect, and Ove Arup & Partners, the Sydney Opera House is one of the world's most distinctive 20th century buildings, an Australian icon, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. It is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge. As well as many touring theatre, ballet, and musical productions, the Opera House is the home of Opera Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony. It is administered by the Opera House Trust, under the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts. The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series of large precast concrete 'shells', each taken from a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure. The Opera House covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land. It is 183 metres (605 feet) long and about 120 metres (388 feet) wide at its widest point. The roofs of the House are covered with 1.056 million glossy white and matte cream Swedish-made tiles, though from a distance the tiles look only white. Despite their self-cleaning nature, they are still subject to periodic maintenance and replacement. The Concert Hall and Opera Theatre are each contained in the two largest groups of shells, and the other theatres are located on the sides of the shell groupings. The form of the shells is chosen to reflect the internal height requirements, rising from the low entrance spaces, over the seating areas and up to the high stage towers. A much smaller group of shells set to one side of the Monumental steps houses the Bennelong Restaurant. The building's interior is composed of pink granite quarried in Tarana and wood and brush box plywood supplied from northern New South Wales. This photograph is part of the Imagine Collection, hosted by Alamy. .