The Sydney Opera House is quite a big building with a very sleek design to it, and not only that, there have been some big names in there as well as a big time to make it with a lot of workers.
The Sydney Opera House was built to, in the words of Joseph Cahill, ‘help mould a better and more enlightened community’. It has definitely enlightened the Sydney community because the Opera House has had some big names like the Foo Fighters in 2006 and Tame Impala in 2011 and again in 2015. According to Google, around eight million people have visited the Sydney Opera House in it’s 61 year history.
The Sydney Opera House is a performing arts centre that lies on the south side of the harbour next to the harbour bridge. The predicted cost for the Sydney Opera House was 7 million but the actual cost turned out to be 102 million, a huge difference from what they expected. The Sydney Opera House can hold up to 5,738 people in the seats. You might be wondering why the Sydney Opera House is the shape it is, well, it was designed by the Danish architect Jorn Utson, however I do not know why he made it that shape. Those were some facts about one of Sydney's biggest attractions.
The Sydney Opera House is such an eye-catching shape that surely it would take a while to build right? Well, it was expected to take just four years to build,but in reality it took another ten years to finish with a total time of fourteen years. Of course with such a big big structure it needed a lot of workers to help build, well that is the case with the Opera House because it needed a total of 10,000 workers! Although with so many workers there would have to be a couple deaths and in the Opera House’s situation there were sixteen unfortunate deaths.
In conclusion the Sydney Opera House is definitely a recognisable structure and it has had quite a history.
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