Sydney
Opera House:
an annotated list of sources & services
ARCHITECTURAL
DRAWINGS
At
the State Library of NSW
Jørn Utzon Sydney Opera
House collection. Includes 2561 architectural drawings.
At
State Records NSW
NSW Public Works Department
records. Includes Jørn Utzon's original competition drawings.
At the Sydney
Opera House Trust
[Brown Book 1955].
Conditions and programme for the Opera House competition. Sydney, 1955.
[Competition drawings 1956].
Small scale versions donated to the Sydney Opera
House Trust by Willi Ulmer in 1987.
[Red Book 1959]. Drawings prepared by Utzon in consultation with Ove Arup Partners and
others and published in 1959.
[Major Hall configurations
1959]. Drawings by Jørn Utzon showing major hall multiple configurations, December
1959.
[Yellow Book 1962]. Drawings by Jørn Utzon and others, presented in 1962. Shows
spherical solution.
[Blue book 1962].
The Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay. Recommendations by Jørn Utzon for car
park, bus terminus and pedestrian approach, November 1962.
[Hall Todd &
Littlemore drawings, 1969]. Drawings for Stage 3, February 1968.
[Stage Machinery]. Sydney
Opera House stage machinery drawings issued by Waagner Biro.
[Evolution 1957-1970]
The evolution of the Sydney Opera House stages.
At
the National Library of Australia
H.
Ingham Ashworth Papers 1954-1968. Includes architectural drawings.
At the Sydney
Opera House
Original
Utzon exterior model, 1957.
Model
showing spherical geometry, 1962.
Model
showing section of Major Hall [now
the Concert Hall], 1965.
Model showing engineering services at the Opera House, 1966 [The Lambert
Model]. Constructed by Lambert Industrial Models Pty Ltd. Restored
2003-2006 by Porter Models Pty Ltd.
Model
showing section of Major Hall [now Concert Hall] February 1966. Donated by Jørn Utzon in 1995.
Small
exterior model, commissioned by the Sydney Opera
House Trust in 1986 for travelling exhibitions.
At
the Powerhouse Museum
Finecraft
model no 1. Showing exterior of the
House. Commissioned by Jørn Utzon
in 1963 and subsequently modified with final glass walls solution.
At the State
Library of New South Wales
Jorn
Utzon records 1956-1967. Collection includes 4 wooden models.
At Ove Arup and Partners
Model
used in wind tunnel tests. [Displayed in the Building of the Century
Exhibition, Sydney Opera House, 1988/89]
At
the National Library of Australia
H.
Ingham Ashworth Papers 1954-1968. Includes architectural model.
Other
Models
Other
models are in private hands or have been destroyed. These include a spherical
model [S Haviland collection]; model of an early design for the Minor
Hall of the Sydney Opera House, 1960. [photograph of the latter, with H;
Ingham Ashworth seated in the model, is in the Jørn Utzon collection in the
State Library of New South Wales; it was reproduced as a postcard for the
Unseen Utzon exhibition, Sydney Opera House, 1994/95].
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