Utzon's ceilings deemed not viable by engineer January, 1966 Hughes wants approval from design engineer Ove Arup that the scheme is viable and asks for a report. Utzon asks for money to prototype solutions for the hall ceilings.
Utzon seeks funding to prototype ceiling fix December, 1965 Bob Askin becomes Premier and Country Party leader Davis Hughes appointed Minister for Public Works. Coalition defeats Labor at NSW election 1 May, 1965 Stage One, the podium, is completed in the time the entire project was supposed to have been finished. One of Jorn Utzon's early models for the Opera House ( Supplied: Sydney Opera House) Podium completed long after due date January, 1963 Now, in an interview that only recently emerged over 40 years after it was recorded, Peter Hall says Utzon's seating plan would never have been licensed by authorities: Utzon left the country at the end of April 1966 with his family, never to return to see his masterpiece again. Utzon's resignation triggered protests and marches through the streets of Sydney led by Australian architect Harry Seidler, author Patrick White and others, demanding Utzon be reinstated. The original seating plan for the Sydney Opera House would not just have been uncomfortable, it would have been illegal, according to recently discovered interviews with the man who succeeded the original architect in the job.Īustralian Peter Hall was appointed design architect for the Opera House in 1966, when Danish architect Jorn Utzon resigned after a change of government in New South Wales saw his designs, schedules and cost estimates questioned.
Architect Peter Hall was appointed to pick up the completion of the Sydney Opera House in 1966.
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