Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.
- Height
- 65 m213 ft
- Completed
- 1973
- By
- Jørn Utzon
- Coordinates
- 33° 51′ 24″ S151° 12′ 55″ E · -33.8568, 151.2153
Two rows of shells on a granite podium, the Concert Hall’s and the Joan Sutherland Theatre’s, with the restaurant’s small pair beside the steps. Every shell is cut from the same sphere.
Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Sydney, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.