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Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House The StatusThe Status The Historythe history The LocationThe Location The StructureThe Structure The BeautyThe Beauty The Status The Sydney Opera House 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 40 years.The Sydney Opera House is as representative of Australia as the pyramids are of Egypt. Sydney Opera House the history In the late 1950s the Australian Government established an appeal fund to finance for the construction of the Sydney Opera House and a young Danish architect John Utzon wanted to take part in the competition. One day, during the breakfast time, he was thinking the project as peeling the orange. Suddenly, he found peeled orange liked geometric[d???m?tr?] figure（几何图形).Then he finished his project quickly and sent it. Sydney Opera House looks like an orange froma distance, isnt it? The architect John Utzon Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth on 20th October 1973Sydney Opera House. The Location The Opera House reaches out into the harbour.Seen from the air or the skyline of the Sydney Opera House, the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge is so beautifulSydney Opera House. 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 yearSydney Opera House The Beauty day beauty night beauty inside beauty * * * * *