sydney opera house poster FROM 8.99

Stunning sydney opera house poster FROM 8.99 The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design, with a series of large precast concrete "shells",[4] each composed of sections of a sphere of 75.2 metre (246 ft 8½ in) radius,[5] forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land and is 183 metres (605 ft) long and 120 metres (388 ft) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 metres below sea level. The Opera House, backed by the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from the eastern Botanic Gardens approach Although the roof structures of the Sydney Opera House are commonly referred to as "shells" (as they are in this article), they are in fact not shells in a strictly structural sense, but are instead precast concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs.[6] The shells are covered in a subtle chevron pattern with 1,056,006 glossy white- and matte-cream-coloured Swedish-made tiles from Höganäs AB,[7] though, from a distance, the shells appear a uniform white. From a photo taken by photographer David Iliff. David Iliff, a 31 year old Wikipedian from Melbourne, Australia but currently living in London, England. Released under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/