Utzon Center

The Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, turned into the closing constructing to be designed through Jorn Utzon, the architect behind the Sydney Opera House. In collaboration with his son Kim who furnished the very last construction drawings, he planned the centre now not as a museum however as a place wherein students of structure could meet and speak their thoughts for the destiny. Located at the Limfjord waterfront within the metropolis wherein Utzon spent his early life, the constructing changed into finished in 2008, the yr Utzon died. Jorn Utzon grew up in Aalborg, a harbour city within the north of Jutland.

As a boy, he spent a whole lot of his time sailing at the Limfjord or on the wharf in which his father, Aage Utzon, worked as a shipbuilding engineer and in which Jorn became serious about ships and their tricky designs. These impressions might be a long-lasting idea for his later works. But the concept of a centre got here no longer from Utzon himself however from Aalborg University's School for Architecture and Design as an area where students may want to studies and speak architectural trends. At the initiative of Adrian Carter of the Architecture and Design School, the Utzon Research Center become set up in 2003 with the objective of promoting understanding of Utzon's paintings.