Sydney Opera House
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Significantly more graceful and elegant than the rest of Sydney, the Opera House is beautiful from all angles, and worth looking at from all angles as well. Coming into Circular Quay on the ferry shows the Opera House off to its best, its custom built tiles have an iridescent look in the morning and evening light and the rest of the cut glass harbour and the city behind compliment the building perfectly making it look a thousand times more attractive than anything else around (except for Sydney's great natural asset the harbour.). The Opera House interior is more dated than its timeless and pristine exterior. The stark concrete details of the entrance hall were ultra-modern at the time but now look more like a bus station, however further inside in the performance spaces the feeling of graceful spacious understatement returns, so don't be too disappointed by your first impression as you enter. One of the best experiences to have in Sydney is a visit to the Opera Bar under the Opera House concourse - the view, framed by the sailed sides and the less graceful Harbour Bridge, some great live entertainment and good food and drink make it one of the experiences I miss most about living in Sydney.
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Review by editor ‘Excerpt from 'Our Cultural Clipper'’By Thomas Keneally for The Guardian First published October 15, 2007 When I was a child ... Read more » Review by press. ‘A Landmark of the New World’Decades before Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao was even a messy sketch, the first impractical ... Read more » Review by press. ‘Sydney Opera House’Recognised as one of the world’s three most iconic modern buildings along with the Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building, and as iconic for Australia ... Read more »
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