Re:The famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopens to great ...
by atombender on Sunday December 08, 2024 @06:43AM
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The French government held a design competition [1] [2] to gather proposals for a new spire, so the assumption at the outset was not that it would be a mere restoration.
> “The international competition will allow us to ask the question of whether we should even recreate the spire as it was conceived by Viollet-le-Duc,” [prime minister] Philippe told reporters after a cabinet meeting dedicated to the fire. “Or, as is often the case in the evolution of heritage, whether we should endow Notre Dame with a new spire. This is obviously a huge challenge, a historic responsibility.”
However, the senate passed a bill explicitly requiring that the traditional design must be used [3].
> “The international competition will allow us to ask the question of whether we should even recreate the spire as it was conceived by Viollet-le-Duc,” [prime minister] Philippe told reporters after a cabinet meeting dedicated to the fire. “Or, as is often the case in the evolution of heritage, whether we should endow Notre Dame with a new spire. This is obviously a huge challenge, a historic responsibility.”
However, the senate passed a bill explicitly requiring that the traditional design must be used [3].
[1] https://www.archdaily.com/916723/the-peoples-notre-dame-cath...
[2] https://www.archdaily.com/915355/france-announces-competitio...
[3] https://archive.ph/HgTvo