In 1956, a competition to design the Sydney Opera House drew 233 ... Utzon’s initial drawings, the Red Book, had flaws. But, ...

On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great ... Yet, in the decades since, its striking shell-shaped roof helped it become an ...

In 1956, the Honorable Joe Cahill, the New South Wales Premier, announced his selection for the design of the upcoming Sydney Opera House ... the building’s 14 partial shells inspired by ...

Nobody could quite believe the winning entry for the Sydney Opera House when they saw it for the first time in 1957. A building of big white shells as ... Instead, it cost 14 times that, $102 ...

On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great fanfare by the late Queen Elizabeth II. Completed a decade late and vastly over-budget, the ...

Fifty years after the Sydney Opera House ... boring'," Sydney Opera House CEO, Louise Herron, says. "He fished into the discarded pile where he found Utzon's drawing and said: 'This is your ...

"It was a score of towering shells. It was a cluster ... that was the construction of the Sydney Opera House was finally completed. Ten years late and 14 times over its initial budget, it came ...

Not only do we get a bird’s-eye view of the city, the harbour and the 14 shells of the Sydney Opera House, we also get a close-up view of the tiles on top, and the tools – some of them drawing ...

There will be a month of festivities to mark 50 years of Sydney Opera House as ... know it was drawing reference to middens, so the way people would gather and collect oyster shells, oysters ...

On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great fanfare by the late Queen Elizabeth II. Completed a decade late and vastly over-budget, the ...