Australia's most instantly recognisable landmark is also its most contentious building, and once again the Sydney Opera House is at the centre of a vigorous debate - this time over the cost of preserving it for future generations.
Australia's most instantly recognisable landmark is also its most contentious building, and once again the Sydney Opera House is at the centre of a vigorous debate - this time over the cost of preserving it for future generations. BBC
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it's not that the problem was that it was designed incorrectly. it seems to be about the same pit size as similar venues. the orchestra pit at the PJ-designed david h. koch theater (opera house @ lincoln center) has been enlarged twice, is about to go another renovation and is still fairly small.
and while farrely is probably correct on the opera house should not be accomodating full scale operas, she's mistaken on the eiffel (which was extensively 'fixed up')
'I think what you don't do when you have a national symbol is go back and fix it up. You don't go back and fix up the Eiffel Tower and I don't think we need to fix up the Opera House.
the eiffel renovation in the early 80s bulked up some structural connections, lightened others and took out the spiral stair and replaced it w/ a less transparent switchback. the grounds are undergoing a $275 million renovation in 2015.
wouldn't a historian know that?
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