SYDNEY, Australia — Just after dawn one recent morning, Lou Rosicky was walking, slightly stooped, through a covered catwalk tucked just below the tip of one of the famous, towering concrete sails of ...

Inaugurated in 1973, the Sydney Opera House is a great architectural work of the 20th century that brings together multiple strands of creativity and innovation in both architectural form and ...

Sitting on Bennelong Point in Circular Quay, the Sydney Opera House was always intended to be a national landmark – as outlined in the international design competition for its creation. “In the 20th ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: While an up-close selfie with the Opera House is a must, a relaxing and less-crowded way to admire the iconic landmark and its surrounding harbor is by grabbing a refreshing ...

SYDNEY, Feb 17 (Reuters) - For many, a table at Sydney's Opera Bar overlooking the blue water of its world-famous harbour is prime real estate during the summer. But seagulls swooping in to pick at ...

Saying that the Sydney Opera House is a well-known icon of Australia is kind of like saying the Amazon is a creek. The building, which turns 50 years old on October 20, has been given a cultural value ...

The Sydney Opera House at night Adam.J.W.C. (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons The Sydney Opera House’s curving, nested design, evocative of eggshells, bird wings or sails, has earned it a spot as a ...

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 ...

Like many great cultural institutions the world over, the Sydney Opera House is currently closed to the public as the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) brings life in major population centers to a ...

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 ...

Police are looking to block a pro-Palestinian march on Sydney Opera House, scheduled just days after the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks and the subsequent outbreak of the war in Gaza.