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Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
2021One of the most celebrated modern buildings in the world, next to the Fallingwater, must be the Sydney Opera House. From its inception to its implementation, it has occupied the attention of the Australian nation as well as that of the Western world. It has been one of the most complex and visible construction projects anywhere in the world. The design
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Sydney opera house glass walls: Colour measurement and control
Building Science, 1975Abstract One of the architectural requirements of the tinted laminated glass used in the construction of the Sydney Opera House glass walls was that it should be uniform in colour relative to an initially accepted colour standard. As the glass was manufactured in small batches over a two year period, stringent controls were needed to maintain the ...
J.A. Hooper, M.P. Wassall
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Listening Through Different Ears in the Sydney Opera House
2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speed and Signal Processing Proceedings, 2006We present a psychoacoustic experiment that explores the ability of various listeners to discriminate between the virtual auditory space (VAS) stimuli generated using different binaural impulse response functions recorded in the Sydney Opera House. The binaural head-related impulse response (HRIR) functions were recorded for a group of subjects sitting
A.Q. Li, C. Jin, A. van Schaik
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Romanticism Revisited: Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House
Architectural Theory Review, 2007Complex and mysterious, the Sydney Opera House is gloriously elusive. It is something very rare: the intersection of early 19th century Romantic ideas that elevated feeling, intuition and individual genius, and mid-20th century Modernism standing for a rational acceptance and assimilation of industrialism, standardisation with an abstract mass ...
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The Phantasm of the Opera: The Sydney Opera House
2015For a young nation renowned for a cultural cringe – an old self-deprecating national joke says that the only Australian culture to be found is in yoghurt – the idea of building a massive arts complex was a big concern for the Sydney government of the post-war 1950s.
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Sydney Opera House Adopts Innovative Building Management Interface
Civil Engineering Magazine, 2015Engineers in Australia are integrating decades’ worth of data on the design and operation of the Sydney Opera House into a building information model that will confer benefits for years to come.
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Creative Leadership in Learning at the Sydney Opera House
2019The creative leadership in learning program was a partnership between a major performing arts venue and creative learning researchers. This program developed an approach to creative learning that moved beyond the ‘bums on seats’ approach to performing arts venues and reconceptualised young people as creative makers of art rather than just a convenient ...
Michael Anderson, Peter O’Connor
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