Australian architect Bill Wheatland worked on the Sydney Opera House from 1963 until Utzon was driven off the job in 1966. After the Opera House, Wheatland worked in Sydney for a few years before ...

Jorn Utzon, in 1957 at age 38, received word at his home in Denmark that he won an international competition to build the opera house, beating out 232 other competitors. The project whose overrun ...

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SYDNEY, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Immediately recognisable by its sails glistening over the waters of Sydney Harbour, the UNESCO-listed Sydney Opera House is one of the world’s most photographed buildings.

The Sydney Opera House was and still is a novelty, almost universally admired for its beauty. But there is more: the Danish architect Jørn Utzon conceived it, perhaps not fully consciously, as an ...

Australia on Sunday mourned the death of Danish architect Joern Utzon, who designed Sydney’s iconic, sail-shaped Opera House but never saw his building completed. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd led the ...

A year after the death of Sydney Opera House architect Jorn Utzon, a $38 million refurbishment reflecting his vision for the World Heritage-listed building has been opened. Great views of Sydney ...

ARCHITECTURE CRITIC — Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect whose eye-catching, nautically inspired design for the Sydney Opera House overcame a series of controversies surrounding its budget and acoustics ...

The Opera House is already one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations and performing arts centers, contributing $775 million annually to the NSW economy and a national-identity value of $4.6 ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish architect Jorn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House, died of a heart attack on Saturday at the age of 90, the Danish minister of culture said. Utzon was famous for ...