Modern Sydney · event 2 of 14

1957

Utzon wins the competition. An unknown Danish architect’s drawing is pulled from the rejected pile, by one account, by Eero Saarinen.

The Modern Sydney era

  1. 1947 onwards
  2. 1957
  3. 1966
  4. 1967
  5. 1973
  6. 1971–1974
  7. 1978
  8. 1992
  9. 2000
  10. 2007
  11. 2014–2021
  12. 2015
  13. 2023
  14. August 2024

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