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Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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An International Competition for a National Opera House at Bennelong Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Opera House
Author: Peter FitzSimonsPublisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733641342
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other World Heritage sites, it is celebrated for its architectural grandeur and the daring and innovation of its design. It showcases the incomparable talents involved in its conception, construction and performance history. But this stunning house on Bennelong Point also holds many secrets and scandals. In his gripping biography, Peter FitzSimons marvels at how this magnificent building came to be, details its enthralling history and reveals the dramatic stories and hidden secrets about the people whose lives have been affected, both negatively and positively, by its presence. He shares how a conservative 1950s state government had the incredible vision and courage to embark on this nation-defining structure; how an architect from Denmark and construction workers from Australia and abroad invented new techniques to bring it to completion; how ambition, betrayal, professional rivalry, sexual intrigue, murder, bullying and breakdowns are woven into its creation; and how it is now acknowledged as one of the wonders and masterpieces of human ingenuity. In The Opera House, Peter FitzSimons captures the extraordinary stories around this building that are as mesmerising as the light catching on its white sails.
Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House
Author: Cristina Garduno FreemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317083857
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House. By connecting participatory media, visual culture and social value, Cristina Garduño Freeman contributes to a fast-growing body of scholarship on digital heritage and the popular reception of architecture. In this, her first book, she opens up a fresh perspective on heritage, as well as the ways in which people relate to architecture via participation on social media. Social media sites such as YouTube, Pinterest, Wikipedia, Facebook and Flickr, as well as others, become places for people to express their connections with places, for example, the Sydney Opera House. Garduño Freeman analyses real-world examples, from souvenirs to opera-house-shaped cakes, and untangles the tangible and intangible ways in which the significance of heritage is created, disseminated and maintained. As people’s encounters with World Heritage become increasingly mediated by the digital sphere there is a growing imperative for academics, professionals and policy-makers to understand the social value of significant places. This book is beneficial to academics, students and professionals of architecture.
Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975
Author: Jonathan BollenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030394115
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how this happened. It explores the post-war formation of the Asia Pacific region through international touring and the transformation of entertainment during the ‘jet age’ of aviation. Drawing on archival research across the region, Bollen investigates how touring variety forged new relations between artists, audiences, and nations. Mapping tours and tracing networks by connecting fragments, he reveals how versatile artists translated repertoire in circulation as they toured, and how entrepreneurial endeavours harnessed the production of national distinction to government agendas. He argues that touring variety on commercial circuits diversified the repertoire in regional circulation, anticipating the diversity emerging in state-sanctioned multiculturalisms, and driving the government-construction of national theatres for cultural diplomacy.
Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales
Author: National Opera House at Bennelong Point Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Author: Where History Happened
Author: Peter SpearrittPublisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642279268
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
'Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indigenous incarceration and environmental degradation and rejuvenation, describe a vast and complex country, with a heritage worth preserving. Part social, architectural, military, political and industrial history, part road trip travel companion, this book has something for every reader.
Sydney Builds an Opera House
Author: Oswald Leopold ZieglerPublisher:
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Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Author: Royal Institute of British ArchitectsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Report of the Department of Local Government, New South Wales, for the Year Ended 30 June ...
Author: New South Wales. Department of Local GovernmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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