25.June_Thursday
Opera House_Reflection of Myself, Gina and Andrew
Thursday began very similar to Tuesday, meeting Eoghan downtown again for another architecture walk. This time we started outside the Museum of Sydney, still didn’t go inside, but we chatted about the actual building for a few, walked a few bocks to Aurora Place and Government square (the most expensive piece of real estate in the city), then proceeded through a portion of the botanical gardens up to the opera house.
Aurora Place_Renzo Piano
The main focus of this walk was the Opera House so we sat on top of a hill with a clear view of the opera house for the initial history of the building, the design competition, the ideas behind it, some sketching and some lunch. We continued from there around the Opera House, learning more and more about it as we went. It has a very extensive history, from competition to budget to exterior vs interior, etc and Eoghan just kept pulling all of this information out of his head. I realize it’s part of his job to give these tours, but it’s simply amazing how much this man knows. We continued around the Opera house, in, out, underneath, everywhere, for near 4 hours or so.
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