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Sydney Opera House Inspires French Architect
Sydney, May 19, 2009 – Roland Castro, one of France’s leading architects, has proposed a Sydney Opera House replica be built on the banks of the Seine to improve Paris’s outer suburbs. Castro is one of 10 artchitects commissioned by President Nicholas Sarkozy to come up with ideas to improve the capital.
The proposal is for an exact replica of Jeorn Utzon’s building. The architect is planning to have it built beside the river on Gennevilliers, Paris’s north-west fringe. The area has been marred by street violence since the race riots of November 2005.
Castro says the plan tries to “plant some beauty where it is now mostly ugliness.” Utzon’s son, Jan, said it was “flattering that people like the construction so much they think about re-creating it somewhere else”.
Source:
theage.com.au
