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When Utzon presented his idea to the competition in 1957 he barely showed a few schematics explaining the concept behind his project. Overall there are more than 1000 rooms, most of them dedicated to music studios, with a capacity to host over 5000 people comfortably seated. The building is structured under a series of “shells” which give cover to several theater complexes organized on two main axis. By that time Utzon had been forced to abandon the project by a new government However the complexity of the engineering of the building delayed the works over and over until the project was finally completed 14 years later with a total cost of 102 million Australian dollars. The project was supposed to be completed in three years at a cost of 3 million Australian dollars. Utzon himself defined the building’s concept as a combination of “slices of oranges”. After winning the international competition to build the Sydney Opera House Jørn Utzon’s controversial project broke ground in 1959 at Bennelong Point.