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• SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ORIGINAL DESIGN SERIES

The opera house can even resemble a butterfly when lit up with coloured projections during Sydney's annual Vivid Festival in May and June each year. The Australian government's website pays tribute to the structure: " It was his intention to create a sculptural form that would relate as naturally to the harbour as the sails of its yachts."

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ORIGINAL DESIGN SERIES

Utzon's design was considered a sculpture: on one hand, it was graced with a series of "sails" that symbolised the thousands of yachts that sail Sydney Harbour's waterways on the other hand, its shape could be interpreted as huge "sea shells" that act as a metaphor for Sydney and Australia's relationship with beaches and ocean. One of the judges described Utzon's design as a work of genius. Some of these from the most famous architects of the time. In 1957, Danish architect Jorn Utzon unexpectedly won a competition to design the Sydney Opera House, his submission being chosen ahead of 233 designs from 32 countries. The irony of the opera house story is that its creator never got to see it when completed. The opera house may well be an international icon today, but history tells us it was the centre of huge controversey during its construction. Of the time villified its creator to the point where he was forced to close his office and leave the country. The building today is described on the Australian government's own website as "an architectural icon of the 20th century", yet not many visitiors would be aware that the NSW goverment It attracts huge numbers of local and international tourists every year. Its largest venue, the 2679-seat Concert Hall, is host to symphony concerts, choir performances and popular music shows. The opera house is a multipurpose performing arts facility. Today, it is impossible to imagine Sydney Harbour without Jorn Utzon's masterpiece - the structure is the most recognisable man-made feature on the harbour and is at one with the The Sydney Opera House, situated on Sydney Harbour at Bennelong Point, is regarded as one of the wonders of the modern world and its "father" regarded as one of the world's great architects.