Beauty & Style Sydney Opera House is...

[Gasometer]

...the best architecturally designed building in Australia.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Perhaps. It's not very good for it's purpose though. The acoustics are crap.

 

[Gasometer]

Yep. Want to see what people think of it these days. It was loathed universally once.

 

[checkraiseulite]

ugly and overrated.

sydney harbour bridge > sydney opera house.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The fact that people think it's ugly is what makes it good. Great art is never universally accepted as so, so a bit of debate and "our tax money went where?! we don't have angles like that in Dubbo!" helps make it iconic and have a bit of worth.

It's a great looking building in a beautiful part of the world that's a genuine world icon – having the Harbour Bridge behind it in every photo doesn't do it any harm, either.

Sydney has some negatives sure, but the harbour and city itself aren't any of them. This dick measuring contest is worse than the tools who reckon WA should secede.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Sydney has some negatives sure, but the harbour and city itself aren't any of them. This dick measuring contest is worse than the tools who reckon WA should succeed.

Nobody was doing that. Actually, I don't think I've heard anybody say the harbour was bad for the city.

 

[Run n Spread]

ugly and overrated.

sydney harbour bridge > sydney opera house.

I reckon they complement each other and add to the view. Looking out to the habour with the bridge and Opera House > Just the Bridge.

 

[the fly]

Perhaps. It's not very good for it's purpose though. The acoustics are crap.

Sacking the architect halfway through and essentially constructing a different building under the shell wouldn't have helped in that regard.

 

[checkraiseulite]

I reckon they complement each other and add to the view. Looking out to the habour with the bridge and Opera House > Just the Bridge.

point taken. i guess its setting is worthy of a statement, and given it's from the 50s/60s or whatever, we could have ended up with a lot worse.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Sydney has some negatives sure, but the harbour and city itself aren't any of them. This dick measuring contest is worse than the tools who reckon WA should succeed.

Why would you have a problem with WA being successful?

 

[Scotland]

It's no Perth Arena, that's for sure.

 

[FootyJunkie]

...the best architecturally designed building in Australia.

... by a non-Australian!

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

I think most people's internal monologue makes kind of a 'whooowee' noise when you see a genuinely iconic landmark, which you've seen thousands of time on tv or in pictures, in real life for the first time.

The only three places I've got that feeling in aust were Ayers Rock, sitting down in the MCG and the harbor bridge. The Opera house? Looks nice, but way smaller than expected, and I didn't want to look at it, I wanted to look at the bridge.

 

[Kram]

Watched a documentary on the construction of it last week, interesting to learn of the controversy around it.

 

[Blackout]

... by a non-Australian!

I think you'll find most architecturally significant structures and urban landscapes within Australia aren't designed by Australians.

 

[Slax]

the problems with it don't relate to architecture for that it is brillant, as far as practicality goes it is a nightmare. Suits Sydney free well, nice and flashy from the outside, but scratch away the surface and you're left with a massive disappointment.

 

[woopedazz]

It's dirty. Give it a paint job and a clean it looks alright, but when it is yellow/brown it looks like complete and utter shit.

 

[Northworth]

iconically AND ironically Australian
not designed by an aussie and not functional as an opera house
but known world wide as Australia's opera house

 

[BALKAN]

They should paint it all colourful xxxx

 

[raskolnikov]

A few years ago I heard an American tourist say, "Is that it?" in the typical whiny American voice. I said to him, "That's funny. That's what I said when I saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time".

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

It's dirty. Give it a paint job and a clean it looks alright, but when it is yellow/brown it looks like complete and utter shit.

This. On closer inspection, the windows have this while 1970's beige tint, and the tiles are filthy.

The bridge is the most impressive piece of arhcitecture in the country I think. Maybe up there as the most impressive bridge in the world. Golden Gate, The Tower and the Ponte Vecchio push it but.

But, overall, after travelling through Rome, Florence and Venice recently - we really have nothing to ride home about ...

 

[Catfish Alley]

But after travelling through Rome, Florence and Venice recently - we really have nothing to ride home about...

Write home

You're right. Although, for the new world, Australia does have some nice architecture. I especially like some of the Edwardian styles in Melbourne.

 

[chargers 09]

Gay.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Gay.

The Opera House? What do you prefer?

 

[chargers 09]

The Opera House? What do you prefer?

The design caters to much to homosexuals for my liking.