Construction of Sydney Opera House

Construction of Sydney
Opera House

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Reasons for failure of Sydney opera house............................................................................1
Article review.........................................................................................................................2
Critical review and evaluation................................................................................................3
Recommendation....................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
This iconic structure is a unique building located on Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), New
South Wales, Australia. With having living white sail-shaped shells as its roof architecture of this
building is complex. The international competition for design that was sponsored by the state
government in the year 1956 there were 30 architects who took their part from different countries
and approximately 233 entries were submitted (O’Toole, 2004). The Danish architect Jørn Utzon
announced as a winner by judging committee as he showcased dramatic design of complex
structure (Utzon, 2002). Construction of the Sydney house was began in the year 1959 and faced
different type of challenges and problems like cost overruns, difficulties faced by engineer in
order to execute design, delay of time and agreement with government authorities, resignation by
Jørn Utzon in 1966 and more. However in the year 1999 with so many attempts original architect
of building Jørn Utzon agreed to return in order to make significant improvement in project and
redesign formal reception hall (Colbert, 2003). With having multipurpose performing art
facilities the Sydney Opera House is world’s best known landmark and was designated a
UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 2007. It is disputable masterpiece of human creativity
that still attracts attention of many national and international tourists. It is a masterpiece of 20th
century architecture.
Reasons for failure of Sydney opera house
Sydney opera house is simple but complex iconic structure. Its original plan had a four-
year timetable and an AU $7 million budget. It has been evaluated that, the shells alone took 150
thousands man hours to design. This is more than just an engeneric riddle as it is engeneric
nightmare. As it has been determined that it is having most complex Engeneric problems.
Sydney opera house was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Sydney opera house is a
masterpiece of twentieth century architecture (Parnell and Hartcher, 2017). There are many
challenging stories behind the story of master piece. Most critical failure of opera house was that
budget blowing out by 1500% and timeline stretches out from 5 years to 14. In addition to this,
another failure was, inadequate resource management planning that resulted in no one dedicated
person responsible for project activities. This has been evaluated that in the year 1965, the state
elections took place and newly elected government was not in the favour of Utzon. In addition to
this, it has been identified due to government intervenes Utzon forced to begin work. So with
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