The design for the Sydney Opera House was selected from entries in an international competition held in 1956. From more than 230 designs submitted by major architectural firms worldwide, the committee selected a dramatic concept by Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect who was virtually unknown outside of Denmark. He described his work as more like a sculpture than a building because it appeared to change shape depending on the direction from which it was viewed. He was also very committed to organic principles, which dictated that the structure must fit in with the environment. Situated in Bennelong Point, a promontory that stretches into the harbor, Utzon drafted the curved roofs of the opera house to look like a sailing ship at full sail on the water.
Clearly, the roof is the most revolutionary part of the design, which was so far ahead of the capabilities of engineering at the time that Utzon had to spend several years reworking the details for the construction of the roof sails in order to help the engineers solve the problems associated with actually building them. For example, stabilizing the shells that rose almost 200 feet high presented a serious challenge. Prestressed concrete was very new in building construction at the time that it was used to make the ribbed shells for the roof. In addition, computer technology was just catching up with the complex structural calculations and models that the architect needed for his vision to be realized.By 1966, a decade after the design was chosen, the opera house was not even near completion. It was over budget, there were problems with the engineers and the contractors, and the fate of the structure was the object of political debate; Jorn Utzon resigned from the project. Eventually completed by others, by the time that it opened in 1973, it had been under construction for 17 years. The roof alone had required almost 2200 precast concrete sections, some of which weighed 15 tons, held together by 220 miles of tensioned steel cable and covered by more than a million white glazed ceramic tiles.
The author discusses about the architectural finesse of the Sydney opera House and states the history behind the structure of it .The lecturer is fascinated by the architectural granduer of the sydney opera house which was designed by Jorn Utzon a Danish architect.The lecturer describes the opera house as a master work of architecture which is unique on its own.The roof which is a revolutionary design is categorized as modern yet not in accordance to the international standards of architecture with respect to the lecturer.Moreover the use of newer materials and the clean geometric lines beautify the structure of the opera house.However it defies the modern architectural standard of skyscrappers , still the design looks aesthetic enough which pleases the human eye.The lecturer states that the design is high tech and a creature of the modern computer age as the computer technology was just evolving to match up with the intricate structural calculations to help visualize the model.The blend of art and architecture makes the Sydney Opera House as one of the most widely recognized monument all across the world.Finally the lecturer states that the entire design of the opera house cannot be confined to a single category it is an amalgation of multiple different ones which makes the Sydney Opera House as one of a kind.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, look, moreover, still, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 6.0 22.412803532 27% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1116.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16666666667 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13341690717 2.5805825403 121% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 145.348785872 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.523148148148 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 373.5 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 216.0 21.2450331126 1017% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1116.0 110.228320801 1012% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 216.0 21.698381199 995% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 60.0 7.06452816374 849% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 15.0 4.19205298013 358% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220388268593 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.220388268593 0.0996497079465 221% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220388268593 0.162205337803 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 110.9 13.3589403974 830% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -156.22 53.8541721854 -290% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 88.7 11.0289183223 804% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 14.19 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 18.66 8.42419426049 222% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 61.0 10.7273730684 569% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 88.4 10.498013245 842% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 89.0 11.2008830022 795% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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