The renowned Danish architect Jørn Utzon has died

Copenhagen - At the age of 90, the most famous Danish architect Jörn Utzon passed away today, who is globally renowned as the author of the building of the opera in Sydney, Australia. The news was announced in its online edition by the newspaper Politiken.
Jörn Utzon recently became the only living architect in the world who built a protected UNESCO World Heritage site. UNESCO listed the Sydney Opera House as a "fantastic urban sculpture" on its list of world treasures.
Utzon began construction on the building in Sydney as early as the late 1950s, but after nearly ten years of construction, he was forced to leave Australia in disgrace following a conflict with local politicians. He left his greatest life's work unfinished and vowed never to return to the antipodes. This position he broke only nearly 40 years later, when in 2003 he traveled to Australia to receive the prestigious Pritzker Prize, considered the highest honor in the world of architecture. The Sydney Opera House was opened in 1973 without his participation.
Jörn Utzon also designed several other buildings, including the Kuwait National Assembly building, but the opera house with its roof of white concrete sails, which seem to want to lift the entire structure into the sky at any moment, overshadowed all the rest of his work. After the conflict in Australia, he unfortunately never received a commission of similar significance again.
Most of Utzon's other projects are therefore located in close proximity to the Öresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden: in the Danish Helsingør, in Copenhagen, and in the Swedish Lund. Not far from the so-called Hamlet's Castle Kronborg in Helsingør, also known as Elsinore, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, stands his own house, which Jörn Utzon of course designed and built himself.
Jörn Utzon became a legend among architects and a symbol of the victory of free imagination over the limitations of political power.