Title & Author:

Sydney Opera House / [presented by] Jørn Utzon (Jørn Utzon Architect), Eero Saarinen (Eero Saarinen & Associates) & Leslie Martin.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1957.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (48 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Left To Right: Leslie Martin, Jørn Utzon & Eero Saarinen -- Sydney Opera House On Australia Day 2008 -- Sydney Opera House, Clearly Showing The Outline Of Its "Sails" -- Sydney Opera House From The East -- Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House. This Room Was Redecorated In 2004 Using Utzon's Original Design, To Show How The Building Would Have Looked If Utzon Had Continued To The End Of The Project -- The Foyer Of The Opera Theatre In The Eastern Wing Of The Sydney Opera House, Showing The Internal Structure & Steel Framing Of The Glass Curtain Walls, & The Views Onto Sydney Harbour -- The Ribs Of The Sydney Opera House Sails From Inside The Building. The Sails Were Originally Designed As Parabolic, But After Failures Of The Design In Wind Tunnel Tests, They Were Changed To A Spherical Design -- Sydney Opera House Under Construction 1968 -- "Key To The Shells" Design Explanation -- Sydney Opera House, Detail Of An Exterior Wall -- Sydney Opera House Structural Detail, Interior Staircase -- Sydney Opera House From The North-West -- Sydney Opera House Interior.

Summary:

This rare recording by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation features the New South Wales Premier Jo Cahill and Jørn Utzon speaking at the launch of the Sydney Opera House appeal on 7 August 1957. It also includes a discussion between Henry Ashworth (Professor of Architecture at University of Sydney and Chairman of the Opera House competition jury), and his fellow assessors Eero Saarinen and Sir Leslie Martin (Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University), on 29 January 1957. We are grateful to Warwick Mehaffey, Acoustics Engineer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and advisor to the Sydney Opera House for sourcing the recordings.

Subject:

Sydney Opera House.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Utzon, Jørn, 1918-2008, narrator.
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961, narrator.
Martin, Leslie, narrator.