No it wasn’t. The project was scrapped and the building works handed over to a private company who fought off other developers and they fought to change the use of the land. It was eventually cancelled and never completed.
It doesn’t exist. The entire building project was cancelled in the late 60’s and unfortunately was never completed. The original works were demolished and groundworks were transformed into a public seating area, some parts were sold to the public and there was a national outcry.
I happened to be at a lecture last year where Utzon’s son Jan recalled a letter his father received years back. It was a note of gratitude from a Sydney resident who was depressed and was about to commit suicide. The resident said he saw the Opera House in the reflections of the harbour and just thought how beautiful it was. It saved his life. Jan was in tears recalling this story, it’s one of the most extraordinary and deeply emotional public speaking events I’ve ever witnessed. Thank you Jan and thank you Jorn. Denmark and Australia will always be inseparable ❤❤❤
@@markleon411 Yeah? My teachers in the 50s belted me for "being bold". In those days (for Catholic teachers at least) it meant being yourself without pretence or faking it. It was considered a sin.
@@markleon411 No chance of that. A vital quality of any designer is to know the difference between his elbows and his buttocks. They had to get a Nordic Protestant in to do the job. lol
Honest to God. It's a miracle this building was ever completed at all given the issues associated with its construction. However it demonstrates the power of an open ended budget along with a permanently moveable completion date.and a supine client who clearly didn't give a monkey's about either.
It never did get completed though did it. The original groundworks can still be found if you visit the site, which is now a museum and art gallery along the river.
(8:10) As someone who was born an "idiot" (Idiot Savant as the doctors once called it), I think that this was rather an apt, albeit harsh, way of expressing his opinion. This aside, the taxpayers of Sydney began the process of paying for the Opera House. And the gamble paid off.
I feel like we should be tought about this a little more here in Australia. I mean i never thought the Opera house was easy to build by any means but i never had any idea the amount of troubles the project faced during its time, for example barely raising half a million for funding before the lottery was introduced...
Funny how mean the BBC sounds in this film. Relishing the difficulties of the build, and not having even the slightest bit of interest in the audacity it takes to build something that has never been built before. It's as if a structure had never before gone through the process of being criticized to being iconic, when in fact that has happened many times before.
heh there was a tone of jealousy in this BBC persons voice. As a Sydneysider I am proud of the Opera House and what is has given Sydney. Money well spent.
Sadly the original interior design was never completed ... Utzon was effectively sacked by a tasteless minister for Public Works in a highly controversial move.
Never seen such a critical & mean BBC in all my time watching old Pathè & BBC footage. Being Australian, there is nothing quite like sailing past the Sydney Opera House on our harbour. A truly stunning building. Even if built today it would be an impressive feat of engineering! Considering the decade it was built in makes it truly a tremendous feat of engineering & construction however at the time there certainly was alot of controversy, and if you didn't know, sadness as well through the Opera house lottery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Graeme_Thorne?wprov=sfla1 This happened in the suburb where I grew up! 😢 I was born after the House was finished (just) so for me it's always just 'been there' 😊 but back then Australia was certainly full of confidence in trying (and succeeding) at many construction firsts such as, amongst others: Snowy Power Scheme & Gladesville Bridge (Sydney).
The Sydney Opera House was opened 20th October 1973, almost nine years after this film was first shown.
Only 10 years later than the original completion date.
No it wasn’t. The project was scrapped and the building works handed over to a private company who fought off other developers and they fought to change the use of the land. It was eventually cancelled and never completed.
The initial building works got demolished in 1968. I know because I’ve been there
An icon of the world now. Amazing.
It doesn’t exist. The entire building project was cancelled in the late 60’s and unfortunately was never completed. The original works were demolished and groundworks were transformed into a public seating area, some parts were sold to the public and there was a national outcry.
what is bro saying@@EnterShikari01
Opera house of Australia is a nice architectural design.
I was today years old when i learned that the Australian dollar was only introduced in the sixties (1966, one year after this)
I happened to be at a lecture last year where Utzon’s son Jan recalled a letter his father received years back. It was a note of gratitude from a Sydney resident who was depressed and was about to commit suicide. The resident said he saw the Opera House in the reflections of the harbour and just thought how beautiful it was. It saved his life. Jan was in tears recalling this story, it’s one of the most extraordinary and deeply emotional public speaking events I’ve ever witnessed. Thank you Jan and thank you Jorn. Denmark and Australia will always be inseparable
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How to build a legendary landmark? Be bold!
Always be bold. Take chances.
@@markleon411 Yeah? My teachers in the 50s belted me for "being bold". In those days (for Catholic teachers at least) it meant being yourself without pretence or faking it. It was considered a sin.
@@aleccullen2696 I guess the Sydney Opera House couldn't have been built by a Catholic then. LOL
@@markleon411 No chance of that. A vital quality of any designer is to know the difference between his elbows and his buttocks. They had to get a Nordic Protestant in to do the job. lol
It's worth listening to Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales on the Opera House. Quite a tortuous story of the making of an icon.
Honest to God. It's a miracle this building was ever completed at all given the issues associated with its construction. However it demonstrates the power of an open ended budget along with a permanently moveable completion date.and a supine client who clearly didn't give a monkey's about either.
It never did get completed though did it. The original groundworks can still be found if you visit the site, which is now a museum and art gallery along the river.
@@EnterShikari01 I didn’t know that! Is it in a basement level of the building or where?
(8:10) As someone who was born an "idiot" (Idiot Savant as the doctors once called it), I think that this was rather an apt, albeit harsh, way of expressing his opinion.
This aside, the taxpayers of Sydney began the process of paying for the Opera House.
And the gamble paid off.
The Danes gave us the Opera House. 50 years later we've given them a Queen. I'd say it's about even now.
As Clive James noted .....It looks like a typewriter , filled with oyster shells .
I feel like we should be tought about this a little more here in Australia. I mean i never thought the Opera house was easy to build by any means but i never had any idea the amount of troubles the project faced during its time, for example barely raising half a million for funding before the lottery was introduced...
Seventeen and a half million dollaridoos!?
Funny how mean the BBC sounds in this film. Relishing the difficulties of the build, and not having even the slightest bit of interest in the audacity it takes to build something that has never been built before. It's as if a structure had never before gone through the process of being criticized to being iconic, when in fact that has happened many times before.
heh there was a tone of jealousy in this BBC persons voice. As a Sydneysider I am proud of the Opera House and what is has given Sydney. Money well spent.
Beautiful building; I have a poster of it, seen against the wide sky, in my bedroom. /Louise, Sweden
Sadly the original interior design was never completed ... Utzon was effectively sacked by a tasteless minister for Public Works in a highly controversial move.
Nuns in a rugby scrum.
It's ugly.
No, it's not. But I'm sure people are devastated by your lack of approval.
Or sense
@@XPRT10R If you can't see that this contraption is objectively ugly, the problem is with you. I guess you belong to this world
Not as ugly as your mum
Never seen such a critical & mean BBC in all my time watching old Pathè & BBC footage. Being Australian, there is nothing quite like sailing past the Sydney Opera House on our harbour. A truly stunning building. Even if built today it would be an impressive feat of engineering! Considering the decade it was built in makes it truly a tremendous feat of engineering & construction however at the time there certainly was alot of controversy, and if you didn't know, sadness as well through the Opera house lottery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Graeme_Thorne?wprov=sfla1
This happened in the suburb where I grew up! 😢
I was born after the House was finished (just) so for me it's always just 'been there' 😊 but back then Australia was certainly full of confidence in trying (and succeeding) at many construction firsts such as, amongst others: Snowy Power Scheme & Gladesville Bridge (Sydney).