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The Dream of Perfection

Dir. John Weiley

THE DREAM OF PERFECTION is as extraordinary as its provocative subject matter, the dramatic story of the building of the Sydney Opera House, culminating in Utzons departure from the project. Director John Weiley was commissioned in 1968 to make the documentary Autopsy on a Dream by then BBC2 controller David Attenborough, and following its only screening on the BBC, it was destroyed literally chopped to pieces on the chopping block. Miraculously, a mute print of Autopsy on a Dream was rediscovered in a BBC vault this year, and has now been restored with sound saved by John Weiley, and with a new prologue. The film features interviews with David Attenborough, Jan Utzon, Lin Utzon, and Richard Neville.

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Episode 145: NGV 2018 Architecture Commission

This week on ArchiTel, Jan Henderson talks with Amy Muir (director at Muir Architecture) and Mark Jacques (landscape architect at Openwork) about their winning proposal Doubleground for the NGV 2018 Architecture Commission.

Inspired by key architectural elements of Sir Roy Grounds’s iconic NGV International building, the 2018 NGV Architecture Commission will transform the NGV Garden by literally raising sections of the landscape and creating chasm-like passageways for visitors to explore between the tilted embankments - NGV

Drone images courtesy of Peter Bennetts

This weeks story is brought to you by:

Henderson Media Consultants

Host: Jan Henderson Produced by: Ron Brown Camera Operators: Ron Brown and Greg Kelly

Editor: Tess Emmerson

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