Sydney Opera House Project - Design, Construction and Facts

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SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE PROJECT
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SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE PROJECT
Introduction
Located in Sydney Australia, the Sydney Opera House is one of the best iconic buildings of the
20th century. Being a multi-venue is located adjacent to Royal Botanic Gardens and Sydney
CBD. The initiation and planning for the project started in 1940s which was due to director of
the state conservation music sir Eugene Goossen who proposed for theatrical production center
that was big enough to accommodate all the performances in Sydney and other parts of Australia
at large (Dillon, 2014).
Queen Elizabeth was the chief guest during the inauguration ceremony that was carried out in
1973, the entire project having have consumed 102 million dollars as the total construction cost.
Even though the initial construction cost for the entire project was estimated at 7 million dollars
the cost of construction for the entire project increased dramatically because the government had
to pay an extra cost in order to make the project a social monument of the 20th century.
The project took 14 years to be completed centrally to the estimated construction period of
4years, the actual construction of the project was initiated in 1959 and the project was completed
in 1973.During the construction time there were approximately 10,000 construction workers at
any given time which recorded one of the highest number of construction workers who have ever
been present at the construction site in the history of construction in Australia (Fromonot, 2016).
Even though the project is perceived as a single venue, the sy7dney opera house has the abi8lity
to host approximately 1500performances annually with an approximated population of 1.2
million people. The performances in the Sydney opera house are usually represented by three

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different local companies which include The Sydney Theatre Company (Millen, 2014), The
Opera company which is in Australia, and lastly the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Project description
Project team
Jorn UtZon and Ove Arup were the main designers acting as an architect and a Structural
engineer respectively. Other than the two individuals mentioned above, the Sydney Opera house
had a good number of subcontractors who were seriously involved in the execution of the
project. The two (Jorn UtZon and Ove Arup) and the subcontractors were involved the heating,
mechanical, ventilating and all 0other design works of the project. During the construction of this
project there was no construction manager instead Jorn UtZon was responsible for all the
management and was responsible for all making all the decisions regarding to the design and
construction of the entire project.
The structural engineering firm (Ove Arup’s firm) and other out6sourced companied mainly for
consultancy purposes also acted as the project stakeholders. The public was also an indirect
stakeholder of the project since it was actively involved in the funding through a lottery game
that was established by the government (Lewis, 2011).
Design of the project
The design of this project can be described and it is considered as a technological move which
would lead to excellent projects by Zaha Hadid and frank Gehry. One of the main which was
realized during the design was the shape the roof would take after presentation of the design on
the podium (Millen, 2014).