http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wit023qqzjg&feature=related
This video documents various places in Australia in 1969. In this section Bill mentions both the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. He went into the history behind each piece of architecture.
Interestingly, the man who built the Opera House, Joern Utzon, a Danish architecture never got to see his creation. After a dispute in 1966, he never came back to the site.
The history behind the bridge is interesting as well, because when it was being built in 1923, the builders wanted to make it the longest single arch span ever created. Yet, in 1932, right before the bridge was going to be opened, the Bayonne Bridge in New York opened and was 25 inches longer than the Harbour Bridge.
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