Jorn Utzon was born on April 9 1918 in Copenhagen. He grew up at Aalborg, where his father was a naval architect and director of the local shipyard. The young Jorn would help his father draw up plans ...

Well before the sails of the Sydney Opera House were complete, architect Jorn Utzon was already thinking about how to decorate the inside of the building. Now almost 60 years later, one of the ...

Sydney, Australia — The last time Danish architect Jorn Utzon set eyes on his most famous creation, the Sydney Opera House, it was 1966, and workers were affixing the last ceramic tiles to its giant ...

Utzon Center, Aalborg, recently opened their newest exhibition - FATAMORGANA - about Jørn Utzon’s mythical unbuilt project for Silkeborg Museum intended to house the art and private collection of the ...

The private art and furniture collection of the famed architect and designer of Sydney Opera House Jørn Utzon is going under the hammer at Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers in Copenhagen in June. Built upon ...

There is a cave at the south end of Palm Beach with a view out to the ocean and Barrenjoey Headland where Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon used to go to seek inspiration and solace. Its lattice ...

Utzon's architecture, like the man himself, was something special - it's a tragedy he built so little, writes Jonathan Glancey Walking on the roof on the Sydney Opera House lit up by a full moon on my ...

J'rn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House, died November 28 at age 90. Jørn Utzon died November 28 at age 90, after a long illness. He never saw his masterpiece, the Sydney Opera House, completed ...

Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect whose eye-catching, nautically inspired design for the Sydney Opera House overcame a series of controversies surrounding its budget and acoustics to become one of the ...

Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect who died on November 29 aged 90, designed the Sydney Opera House but abandoned the project before its completion. Australia's primary landmark building, the Opera ...

Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect who died on November 29 aged 90, designed the Sydney Opera House but abandoned the project before its completion. Australia’s primary landmark building, the Opera ...

An architect’s architect, Jorn Utzon, who died Nov. 29 at 90, was immensely creative in his understanding of space. He was also a problem solver, concerned with human scale, structure and function.