Being a Kiwi I should vote against any Aussie inclusion at the nominee stage BUT the Opera House is more then just a vaguely unusual 1960’s building. There is NO other 60’s building that could even be in slight contention! It’s a bloody amazing building that showed how far sighted Sydney actually was (I will never admit to that! I’m a Kiwi!).
My disappointment is the giant jesus got in and Ankor Wat did not! Shame on you voters! (I didn’t vote…Shame on me!).
The problem for me is probably a blokey one (and the fact that I’m a railway loon): just across the water from the Opera House is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I was born in this city, but that bridge still gives me goosebumps. It’s huge, beautiful, metal, gravity defying, and awesome. It roars like a lion for miles around when a train passes over it. It’s amazing. Sitting next to it, is this small Opera House thingy that looks like a dessicated orange. If the bridge wan’t there, then maybe…
I totally agree with you re Ankor Wat/Christ the Redeemer.