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1965: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE - Too Revolutionary to Build? | Tonight | The Making of... | BBC Archive

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"From the first, it stirred the people of Sydney to breathless wonder and scolding abuse."
BBC Tonight reports from Sydney, Australia, where work continues on the Sydney Opera House.
Jorn Utzon's winning design for the building is certainly unprecedented and eye-catching, but its unique shape has led to a series of headaches for engineers and construction workers. Trevor Philpott reflects on the myriad problems that the Sydney Opera House has faced since it was first conceived, and considers some of the potential problems that still need to be overcome before it can open.
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@hilaryepstein6013 6 месяцев назад

The Sydney Opera House was opened 20th October 1973, almost nine years after this film was first shown.

@phillipecook3227 6 месяцев назад

Only 10 years later than the original completion date.

@handsoffmycactus2958 6 месяцев назад

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.

@handsoffmycactus2958 6 месяцев назад

The initial building works got demolished in 1968. I know because I’ve been there

@syedalamgir5838 6 месяцев назад

Opera house of Australia is a nice architectural design.

@marsspacex6065 6 месяцев назад

An icon of the world now. Amazing.

@handsoffmycactus2958 6 месяцев назад

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.

@G0DSFACE-s3s 6 месяцев назад

what is bro saying@@handsoffmycactus2958

@matthewbland8765 6 месяцев назад

I was today years old when i learned that the Australian dollar was only introduced in the sixties (1966, one year after this)

@adammuggleton4107 6 месяцев назад

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 ❤❤❤

@phillipecook3227 6 месяцев назад

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.

@handsoffmycactus2958 6 месяцев назад

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.

@kevfitz8087 6 месяцев назад

@@handsoffmycactus2958 I didn’t know that! Is it in a basement level of the building or where?

@3k3k3 6 месяцев назад

How to build a legendary landmark? Be bold!

@markleon411 6 месяцев назад

Always be bold. Take chances.

@aleccullen2696 Месяц назад

@@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 Месяц назад

@@aleccullen2696 I guess the Sydney Opera House couldn't have been built by a Catholic then. LOL

@aleccullen2696 Месяц назад

@@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

@dannydavis2997 6 месяцев назад

It's worth listening to Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales on the Opera House. Quite a tortuous story of the making of an icon.

@jasonayres 6 месяцев назад

(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.

@ashcoops6962 6 месяцев назад

The Danes gave us the Opera House. 50 years later we've given them a Queen. I'd say it's about even now.

@samsum3738 6 месяцев назад

As Clive James noted .....It looks like a typewriter , filled with oyster shells .

@MichaelBosley 6 месяцев назад

Seventeen and a half million dollaridoos!?

@Praktical_ 6 месяцев назад

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...

@omniphoriusvcf907 6 месяцев назад

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.

@glencoe1266 6 месяцев назад

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.

@louise_rose 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful building; I have a poster of it, seen against the wide sky, in my bedroom. /Louise, Sweden

@ceebee23 6 месяцев назад

Sadly the original interior design was never completed ... Utzon was effectively sacked by a tasteless minister for Public Works in a highly controversial move.