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Miniature versions huddle in snow domes. You can build your own from Lego. Bidjigal artist and elder Esme Timbery constructed a replica in her trademark shell art. Ken Done put it on doona covers and bikinis. If you search the hashtag on Instagram, you will see over a million posts.
The modern world, before Danish architect Jørn Oberg Utzon, had little known such geometric temerity in structural design as the Sydney Opera House, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The late Utzon never visited Australia nor saw his completed masterpiece in person.
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