Long ago, the Limfjord was a highway for Viking longboats that teemed with eels (its name means eel castle). Any pilgrimage to the homeland of the Pritzker Award-winning designer must include this city 400 kilometres north of Copenhagen. It was here on the Limfjord, the waterway that cuts his childhood home town in half, that the Danish architect's love affair with sailing boats and building beautiful things began. To get a better understanding of the architect born a century ago this year, it's best to go back to his childhood home, in the then industrial port town of Aalborg. As a newborn his parents moved him and his elder brother Leif to this northern Danish, where his father Aage had a job in the shipyards as a naval engineer. He's been dead for a decade, and his dramatic departure from Sydney in 1966 following a dispute with a previous NSW Liberal government, indicates he'd unlikely be overly happy. It's hard to say what Danish architect Jørn Utzon would have thought about the sails of his trademark building, the Sydney Opera House being lit up with advertising to promote the Everest horse race at Randwick.
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