Utzon’s open-plan home on the edge of a beech forest became the definitive Danish mid-20th century design.Credit: Jan Søndergaard Like many young architects, Jørn Utzon threw all his creative ...

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Danish architect Jørn Utzon, we've collaborated with the Utzon Center in Denmark to highlight 10 of his most important projects, including the ...

Jorn Utzon’s name is, for most people, tied inextricably to his most famous work: the Sydney Opera House. Completed in 1973, the project was named a World Heritage Site in 2007, making Utzon only the ...

Apart from the modern vehicles, Jrn Utzon’s original submission to a design competition for an opera house on Sydney’s Bennelong Point reads like a Hollywood stage direction for a biblical epic: “The ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While Aalborg was the place of Utzon’s birth, he left his hometown early in his career to build a ...

You’d think the man behind one of architecture’s most timeless works—a place often called the “eighth wonder of the world”—would be celebrated, or at least be invited to the opening ceremony of his ...

The Sydney Opera House will be the focal point of the forthcoming movie. Photo: Rob Griffith/TT A Swedish-Australian producer is set to team up with one of the figures behind the movie adaptations of ...

The architect, who never visited the completed building with its famous, white ‘nun’s headdresses’, died of a heart attack in his sleep on Saturday morning (29 November). Born in Copenhagen in 1918, ...

Louisiana Channel has recently published a second piece of their interview with Jens Thomas Arnfred and Søren Nielsen co-founders of the award-winning Danish practice Vandkunsten Architects. In this ...