As Sydney Opera House approaches its 50th birthday, it is closing for a multi-million dollar renovation. Bill Wyman examines efforts to make the landmark building fit for new generations.
SYDNEY, Australia — Just after dawn one recent morning, Lou Rosicky was walking, slightly stooped, through a covered catwalk tucked just below the tip of one of the famous, towering concrete sails of the Sydney Opera House.
Around him was an almost impenetrable mechanical thicket — pipes, wires, machinery and conduit, all servicing amplifiers, control boards, lights, sprinkler systems, winches and cooling ducts. The feel? The gullet of a cyborg, circa 1964.
“The weight of history is everywhere in this building,” Mr. Rosicky said... Keep reading on the New York Times
SYDNEY, Australia — Just after dawn one recent morning, Lou Rosicky was walking, slightly stooped, through a covered catwalk tucked just below the tip of one of the famous, towering concrete sails of the Sydney Opera House.
Around him was an almost impenetrable mechanical thicket — pipes, wires, machinery and conduit, all servicing amplifiers, control boards, lights, sprinkler systems, winches and cooling ducts. The feel? The gullet of a cyborg, circa 1964.
“The weight of history is everywhere in this building,” Mr. Rosicky said... Keep reading on the New York Times