A year ago, Danish architect Jørn Utzon passed away

Copenhagen - At the respectable age of 90, the most renowned Danish architect and urban planner Jörn Utzon passed away last year, on November 29, in his hometown of Copenhagen. Undoubtedly, his most famous and highly regarded work is the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, which is among the most celebrated pieces of modern architecture in the world.
    This majestic and expensive construction, made up of a series of concrete shell structures over both halls and stages, began construction at the end of the 1950s. However, the rising costs and unexpected problems during the construction of the shell led Utzon to resign as chief architect after seven years of work and leave Australia under strained circumstances. He left his life's greatest work unfinished and vowed never to return to the "Land Down Under." He broke that vow almost 40 years later when he traveled to Australia in 2003 to receive the prestigious Pritzker Prize, regarded in the world of architects as the highest honor. The Sydney Opera was opened in 1973 without his participation.
    Utzon also designed several other significant buildings, including the Parliament House in Kuwait and the Iranian National Bank in Tehran. However, the opera building with its white concrete sail-like roofs, which seem to want to lift the entire structure into the sky at any moment, overshadowed all the rest of his creations. In his native Denmark, several smaller structures were built according to his designs - mostly family and apartment houses, as well as a church in Bagsværd and exhibition spaces for the furniture company Paustian in Copenhagen.