• Impossible made perfect: builders of the Sydney Opera House look back in wonder

    Impossible made perfect: builders of the Sydney Opera House look back in wonder
    On the landmark’s 50th anniversary, those who built it reflect on the political and technical turmoil of realising Jørn Utzon’s visionThe construction of the Sydney Opera House was a famously fraught saga, but as the city’s landmark turns 50, former workers remember a quite different atmosphere on the site itself.Michael Elfick, who was then a surveyor in his early 20s, says safety precautions were minimal. Continue reading...

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