He took "long, idyllic holidays at crucial junctures," was reluctant to ask for help, didn’t have a plan for how to support the weight of his design before construction started and took on other projects while the opera house construction dragged on. Utzon was likable, but had some habits that made working with him difficult, reports Elizabeth Farrelly for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was an unknown, but legend has it that the diagram of his design was found in the rejection pile by Eero Saarinen, a renowned architect and designer who judged the Sydney's international design competition in 1956, writes Thomas De Monchaux in Architect Magazine. Utzon’s story is that of promise crippled by inexperience - or, depending on how the story is told, a city’s failure to support genius. But Utzon wasn’t invited and apparently never saw the finished project at all, reports Jamie Wiebe for Mental Floss. Since the vision of architect Jørn Utzon had a lot to do with the final work, it seems he would be toasted triumphantly at the opera house’s opening. The Sydney Opera House’s curving, nested design, evocative of eggshells, bird wings or sails, has earned it a spot as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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