He resigned from the project in 1966, but construction continued until September 1973.
That proposal, too, was rejected, and the couple resigned from the project in 1996.
Griffin resigned from the project in 1920 without having created a single building, and little of his plan was put into effect, aside from a few roads and a lake.
Askin's minister of works, Davis Hughes, began blocking the funds and resources Utzon needed to complete his work, leading to Utzon resigning from the project in protest in 1966, moving back to Denmark and vowing never to return.
After years of quibbles and false starts — complicated further by what the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences called "our largest budget crisis since the Civil War" — Polshek resigned from the project last spring.
So perhaps, given the ambition of Jorn Utzon's scheme for the Opera House, it's unsurprising that the relationship between Utzon and his clients, a varying cast of Australian government figures, soured to the extent that Utzon resigned from the project in 1966.
He resigned from the project and was replaced by Prince Natakusuma who continued the project to completion.
Frampton resigned from the project through pressure of work, and Drury and Pomeroy carried out the project, each contributing four monumental statues, which were installed in late 1907.
Tydeman resigned from the project to protect his company from possibly liability, but helped the committee come up with a new, safer design.
Gaudí resigned from the project in 1893, at the death of Bishop Grau, due to disagreements with the Chapter, and it was finished in 1915 by Ricardo García Guereta.
