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Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process

by gruseom on 10/2/19, 6:28 PM with 11 comments

• by noodlenotes on 10/2/19, 8:17 PM

  I hadn't seen recent photos until this article, and I didn't realize how different Notre Dame looks now with all the wooden frames supporting the buttresses.

  https://images.graph.cool/v1/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2paxj/ck167...

• by kev009 on 10/2/19, 8:33 PM

  That is really beautiful work, I didn't know people could do things like this anymore. Much admiration for people that can pull together and put up such high levels of craftsmanship.

• by danielam on 10/2/19, 8:16 PM

  Recent panel about the restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsH2ao7PCU

• by 6nf on 10/3/19, 6:40 AM

  Any official news on the exact cause yet? Was it definitely faulty wiring?

• by nickserv on 10/3/19, 6:49 AM

  > will it be the object of a contemporary “architectural gesture”, as suggested by the master-mind of Notre Dame’s restoration, President Emmanuel Macron?

  Please, no. Restore it to before the spire, or with the spire, either is fine.

  But please please no modern monstrosity that will age about as well as La Cité Radieuse...