• Title
  Sydney National Opera House : architect Jorn Utzon [The Red Book]
• Creator
  Jorn Utzon, 1918-2008
• Call number
  PXD 841
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [Copenhagen] : [Atelier Elektra], March 1958
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings
• Reference code
  403352
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (chiefly architectural drawings and halftone photomechanical prints with text, 57 leaves) - 40 x 60 cm.
  28 architectural drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  The report comprises: plans, sections, elevations, photographs of models of the Opera house; reports by other consultants on structures (Ove Arup) acoustics (Vilh. Jordan) mechanical services (J. Varming), electrical installation (M. Balslev) and theatre technique (S. Malmquist).
• General note
  
  "Consultants: Structures - Ove Arup ; Acoustics - V.L. Jordan ; Mechanical services - J. Varming ; Electrical installations - M. Balslev ; Theatre technique - S. Malmquist" -- t.p.
  "I am happy that with this book I am able to give the Premier, the Right Honourable J. J. Cahill and the Opera House Committee a project which realises in a practical form the vision of the competition ..." -- leaf [3].
  This publication showing a light orange profile of the Opera House building eventually became known as the `Red Book' -- Reference: Jorn Utzon : the Sydney Opera House / Francoise Fromonot ; [translation from the French by Christopher Thompson]. Corte Madera, CA : Electa/Gingko, 1998 (p.64).
  
  Two other versions of the `Red Book' are filed at PXD 644 (v.1) and X725.82/1. Microfilm copy of X725.82/1 available at MAV/FM4/10579.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874603
  The Red Book. http://gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/galleries/sydney-opera-house/sydney-opera-house-the-red-book/
  Digitised copy available at Sydney National Opera House. Copenhagen : Atelier Elektra, 1958 (State Library of New South Wales call no. RB/RX725.82/6)
  https://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21121163400002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=EEA&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "With the best compliments to Mr Moses from [signed] Jorn Utzon" -- t.p.
  [Autographs (9) on reverse of title page include:] Jorn Utzon, Ove Arup, R. S. Jenkins, J. Varming
• Topic
  architectural drawings
  architectural models
  presentation documents
  
• Place
  Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Studio of Jorn Utzon - Museum of Sydney
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1027632

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