Australia’s most beloved icon of the modern age: the Sydney Opera House

">century” when it listed it as a World Heritage
The very mention of Sydney conjures up the nowSite.
iconic image of an elegant construct resembling aSituated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, this
cluster of pristine sea shells gleaming in sharp contrastpride and joy of the Australian people was a dream
to the sparkling blue backdrop of the Sydney Harbour.very long in the making. Originally commissioned in the
In the eternal tug-o-war between Sydney andlate 1950s to a young Danish visionary named Jørn
Melbourne for the title of “Australia’sUtzon, the building of the Sydney Opera House was a
arts capital”, Sydney arguably wields thelabor of love that spanned over a decade. It was
definitive trump card in its possession of the Sydneyfinally unveiled to the masses in 1973 by Queen
Opera House, which UNESCO declared “oneElizabeth II.
of the great iconic buildings of the 20th