1.1: Background 1.1.1: Introduction The Sydney Opera House represents a great architectural triumph being ranked amongst the most popular buildings in the world alongside the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the Empire State Building in New York. However it can also be described as an economic and planning disaster setting some kind of world record in time and cost escalation. The existence of this unique cultural monument between Australia's equivalent to Plymouth Rock and the Sydney …showed first 75 words of 1712 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1712 total…it wasn't known, and the client and public were mislead by the first so-called estimate, was one of the unusual circumstances that made the miracle possible". John G Lowe<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>September 2002