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Joern Utzon's idea of the theatre-temple. .(architectural qualities of the Sydney Opera House)
AS THE SYDNEY Opera House was being constructed the public had access to a viewing platform accessed from the Tarpeian Way, the path above the cliff face on the edge of the Domain overlooking the entire site. At the press of a switch the voice of Professor H. Ingham Ashworth, chairman of the panel of assessors and the Opera House Committee, boomed: "I see before me a vast podium sheathed in stone surmounted by great white shells" and continued to give a word picture of the intended finished building.
The competition's promoters had wanted an opera house that would become a national symbol. Joern Utzon's conception of architecture as symbolic form that permeated ...
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