Wednesday, 5 April 2023
The Sydney Opera House is so spectacular it deserves its own post.
The guided tour of the Opera House is fascinating. The architect's design was accepted with no idea of how to actually build such a structure. Engineering research and plans took more than three years, but finally came up with an elegant self-supporting modular design based on sections of a sphere.
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| The Sydney Opera House is more than just an opera theater. The the Concert Hall and Opera Theatre are under the two largest shells, while the base structure contains additional, smaller, performance spaces and restaurants. The outside forecourt is also used as for performances. The smallest shell, at the right side of the photo, holds a restaurant and gift shop (and, apparently, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow). |
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| The final engineering design is composed of modular concrete ribs. |
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| More concrete ribs. |
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| Interior stairs |
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| The Concert Hall is the largest performance space and can be configured to accommodate a wide range of music from symphonic to heavy metal rock. We did not get to see the interior of the Opera Theatre because the Ballet was in the midst of a dress rehearsal. |
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| While the shells look white most of the time, they are really covered with cream-colored ceramic tiles. Some of them look blue in these photos as they reflect the sky. |
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| Hidden rails and access points make it relatively easy to replace damaged tiles. |
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