Australia's most iconic building is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Sydney Opera House, which officially opened on 20 October 1973 after 14 years of construction, is widely regarded as a ...

Building this masterpiece took 14 years and over 10,000 workers. The costs soared from A$7 million to A$102 million. The ...

On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great ... the unusual-looking building was not an immediate hit with Australians.

The building of the Sydney Opera House began on 2 March 1959. But when BBC Tonight visited the construction site in 1965, it was plagued by technical problems, soaring costs, vacillating public ...

The white sails of the Sydney Opera House in Australia seemed like “an obvious canvas for an important message”, recalled David Burgess, even if scaling the building with a tin of red paint wa ...

To help fund the rapidly ballooning budget, opera house boosters held lotteries to raise money. That inadvertently led to one of the darkest tangential consequences of the building of the Sydney ...