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Jørn Utzon’s fight for The Sydney Opera House becomes film that will be made an international team

Australia Architecture News - Jun 08, 2016 - 21:47   14102 views

Jørn Utzon’s fight for The Sydney Opera House becomes film that will be made an international team

[.....] With the working title Utzon, The Man Behind the Opera House, the film will tell the story of Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who was just 38 years old and relatively unknown when he won the international competition to design an opera house on Sydney’s Bennelong Point in 1957.

Construction on the radical design was blighted by a series of misadventures after it began in 1958 – there were construction delays, cost blowouts and design problems that had no easy fixes. By 1965 a new Liberal-led state government was elected, led by Robin Askin, who was less sympathetic to the beleaguered project than his Labor predecessor.....Continue Reading

Top image: 1965. Architect Jørn Utzon in front of the Sydney Opera House, eight years after his designed was selected and six years into construction. Image via vintage.es

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