Sydney Opera House
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Jorn Utzon- the architect of the Sydney Opera House.
    Jorn Utzon is the architect of the Sydney Opera House. He was born on April 9,1918 in Copenhagen , Denmark. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. He used to be an engineer, but unexpectedly won a competition for a new opera house in Australia in the Sydney Harbor. It was under construction in 1957-1973. It was a very difficult to build the Sydney Opera House because of its overlapping roofs. Some engineers thought of destroying it but, Utzon did not want something very important to him destroyed. The engineers obeyed him and tried their best to finish it. It was  hard for the engineers because the new opera house had overlapping roofs. It took sixteen years to finish building the new opera house! When they were done Jorn Utzon called it the Sydney Opera House. It turned out to be a success for Jorn Utzon, the engineers and for Sydney. This is the first building Jorn Utzon had designed. It was a very hard journey but there is a unique and striking building to show for the effort. Jorn Utzon is still alive today. His building looks like a sculpture and he credits Frank Llyod Wright as an influence. It is a very sad fact but, Jorn Utzon, at the time of this writing,has never entered the Sydney Opera House.


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