PHOTO OF THE DAY March 31, 2005  

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Where Sydney, Australia
When 1995
Photographer Sam Abell

Designed in 1957 and finished in 1973, the Sydney Opera House was seen as ahead of its time when architect Jørn Utzon won the anonymous competition to design it.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Wild Shores of Australia, 1996, National Geographic books)


Photo gallery: Sam Abell's photographs of Australia
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