Peter Rice’s engineering genius was able to fulfil architect’s Jørn Utzon’s vision for one of the world’s most famous buildings
Fifty years ago this week Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House and it immediately became one of the best known buildings in the world.
The opera house took 15 years to build and, shades of the National Children’s Hospital here, ran way over budget. The final cost was 14 times that originally envisaged when work began in 1959, but nobody denies now it was money well spent. He worked on the site for seven years as the chief engineer. He said many years later: “I’ve always had a certain capacity, something many of you must recognise, to do mathematics without necessarily having to get to think about it.”
Working in Australia as a young site engineer under the auspices of the building’s Danish architect, Jørn Utzon, Rice was able to solve the incredibly complex engineering challenges and make Utzon’s vision a reality.
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