car entrance level plan, inside front cover. auditorium level plan, inside front cover. Includes many detailed drawings of the Sydney Opera House, very useful for both study and model making. Philip Drew, Jorn Utzen, Anthony Browell. A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Utzon opened the heavy green door and took the lift up to the first floor. Close your eyes for a minute and try to imagine this city without our white-tiled wonder on Bennelong Point, the Sydney Opera House. Credit: Fairfax Media It was 28 February, 1966. The one building that put Sydney on the world map.

isometric view of major hall shells, p106.įrancis D. Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect of the Sydney Opera House. Camden, N.J.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1967. ' Jørn Utzon Pritzker Prize', by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. ' Postcard from Sydney', by Elizabeth Bollinger, ArchitectureWeek No. In the long run, Utzon has been credited and acclaimed for the design, warmly indeed by the opera staff. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. It was finally completed in August 1973 by other hands under the direction of Peter Hall.' Originally the winner of an international open competition in 1957, it was a scheme that broke most of the rules. Sitting on Bennelong Point, virtually in the Harbour and overlooked by the great Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House is completely exposed, as three-dimensional as the orange segments its forms are based on. Sadly, architect Jorn Utzon became the scapegoat of a scandalous political affair and in 1966 withdrew from his project. 'The construction of the beautiful freestanding, sculptural tripartite Opera House was one of the longest contractual sagas of the century. more drawings available on The GBC CD-ROM Rising architect Peter Halls impressive achievement of finishing Utzons unfinished masterpiece as design architect for Stage Three of the Sydney Opera House.

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