The postcard-perfect Sydney Opera House is dramatically situated on the eastern headland of Cicular Quay. Its construction was an operatic blend of personal vision, long delays, bitter feuding, budget blowouts and pusillanimous politicking; Construction began in 1959 after a Danish architect won an international design competition with his plans and construction budget of $7 million. After political interference the architect quit in disgust in 1966, leaving a consortium of Australian architects to design a compromised interior, at a cost of $102 million. Finally completion in 1973, it was lumbered with an impractical internal design.
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