A new exhibition traces Sydney Opera House’s evolution from architect Jorn Utzon’s earliest, fledgling ideas to its famously complex construction.
The Danish port of Aalborg is more than 16,000 kilometres from Sydney but the two cities have a similar treasure: a waterfront building designed by Jorn Utzon.Aalborg was Utzon’s childhood home and its foreshore hosts the Utzon Centre, the celebrated architect’s final project completed in 2008. His greatest work, the Sydney Opera House, has just celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Director of Exhibitions at the Utzon Centre, Line Norskov Davenport, says visitors can take “a deep dive” into some of Utzon’s unrealised ideas for the Opera House.The exhibition’s fine wooden furniture allows visitors to get a close-up view of Utzon’s work – drawer after drawer of original “soft pencil” sketches and detailed architectural drawings can be opened and examined. Many include handwritten notes and are marked in the lower case branding of Utzon’s architecture firm.
Aalborg, about 400 kilometres north of Copenhagen, looks out on Limfjord, a waterway separating the North Jutlandic Island from continental Denmark. The Utzon Centre has helped to revitalise the city’s foreshore. There is a series of family travel photographs which reveal architectural influences that helped shape his Opera House design. This includes images of ancient Mexican monuments taken in 1949 and a sculptural pagoda roof photographed on a trip to China in the late 1950s.
The exhibition has a beautiful wooden viewing platform, inspired by Sydney’s sandstone caves, where visitors can watch a film from the Utzon Centre’s archives showing the Opera House’s construction during the 1960s. The soundtrack is Bach’s Symphony in C major, which provides an audio backdrop to the whole exhibition.
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