Historical Background

The idea to build an opera house in Sydney began on the lastes years of the 40 decade, when Eugene Goossens the director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music decides that the city needs a suitable place for the biggest Theatrical productions. Around this decade, this productions were carry out on the City Hall building of Sydney, but this place wasn’t larger enough.

On 1954 Gossens get the support of NSW Premier Joseph Cahill, who called for designs for a dedicated opera house.Gossens also insist that the Opera house should be build on the Sydney Bay.

The Design contest began on september 13, 1955 and received a total of 233 entries, representing architects from 32 countries that were looking for the 100.000 $ price.

The winner design was announce on 1957. The winner was the danish architec Jorn Utzon. He helped through all the construction of the building.

A side cut of the project

scale model of the project

Process of construction