The eighth wonder

By Martin Pawley 2001-05-16T00:00:00

Before Frank Gehry showed the world how to hype a city with a single building, someone else had already done it, on a global scale that Bilbao could never aspire to. The Sydney Opera House is arguably the most widely recognised and perfectly located building in the world and predictably ...

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