Notre-Dame: an exclusive first look at restoration works | FT
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- Lead architects give the FT a tour of the rebuilding work and discuss the challenges they face in restoring the Parisian cathedral following April's devastating fire. Read more at on.ft.com/2Xkxu2H
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The public have spoken, we want it rebuilt not redesigned!!!
Joey Ohalloran - And what has it got to do with you?
It will be restored not redesigned.
Most of the visible parts that burned were 19th century, not medieval...so resbuilt to what?
YES!. This is a historical landmark not an architects test facility.
@@antipyrene The stained glass rose window was original to the building Only the spire over the crossing was not original. The roof was most certainly their since the building was complete.
"...and how the reconstruction will look, has not been decided." I beg to differ. Hasn't the French Parliament already voted and agreed (pretty overwhelmingly) that Notre Dame needs to be rebuilt exactly as it was before?
Yes they did.
No they didn't. They agreed to remove a part of the "rebuilding law" that was supposed to reduce the time needed but allowed the government to bypass a large amount of restrictions. But that doesn't mean it will be rebuilt identically. Since an international architecture contest has been organised, we can fear it will lead to a post-modern abomination...
I made a donation thinking it would be rebuilt exactly as it was before, but President Macron doesn't want to miss the opportunity to print his mark in history by making a modern Spire...
Pardon my English, I hope I'm understandable ;)
@Allô français canadien a twat?
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Finally! French government did something right
Rebuild it exactly as it was!
They cant do it the way it was
The biggest challenge with that will be the woodwork inside the roof called "The forest" which consisted of a forest worth of logs and planks. HOWEVER they could use aluminium beams as a replacement. It won't be EXACTLY the same, but it also won't be visible to the public, so it doesn't matter.
@@jonas4288 thats bad
Nous l'espérons tous !😔
@@jonas4288 Not to mention a modern structure would prevent a repeat of what happened. There isn't even enough old growth forest in Europe to rebuild it exactly how it was.
Good luck from USA. We would not be a nation without you. Thanks for the Statue of Liberty too. We should help with this.
Michael Hurley - Yes! Do you know how to start a GoFundMe page, and get it attached to these videos?
@@calvinhobbes5686 No, but good luck.
These Monuments are linked in another way, too. The statue of liberty was build by the same company as the decoration of the spire.
@@calvinhobbes5686 why is everyone donating money to the cathedral and not for people who are actually in need of it? Even if their insurance doesn't cover the costs, the french state will.
The French liberals want it back so they could give it to Saudi Arabia.
I hope from this we can appreciate architecture like this more.
@Winston Wolf ^
Every Thursday my big brother will go to Notre dame de Paris for Bible studies, like any other catholic kids in the neighborhood, he brought a drawing of Notre Dame that he made to show to the priest in charge who kept it for himself. This fire made me cry like i had lost a dear friend.
Notre Dame should be rebuild the way it was... and not "improved" upon, as some suggests, with horrible minarets!
Tito B. Yotoko Jr. exctly
They should add fire precaution and protection but otherwise leave it untouched
Sicuramente diventerà un minareto perché ho letto che molte chiese cattoliche sono state trasformate in minareti o quant'altro.
You do realize, that the collapsed spire wasn't original either, right? It was rebuild in a neo-gotic style in the mid 19th century
@@lukaskirchhoff7901
Be that as it may, you realize that the design was gothic so it still fit the overall design of the Cathedral.
And sorry to burst your bubble but still way better than a minaret, no matter your desire to have one built there!
People argue that it should be redesigned because the spire was redesigned in the 19th century. However people don’t realize that the gothic revival style of the new spire was meant to go along with the aesthetic of the whole cathedral, if it was redesigned nowadays it wouldn’t match and would just look funky.
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François Miville yes cause it would take weight off, be cheaper, and would not be flammable. Honestly I don’t care what it’s made of if I can’t see it or it’s far away like the ceiling.
With a little knowledge, a pencil, paper, ruler, compass and square there’s no reason on earth someone could not currently design an equally attractive, gothic spire that would compliment the rest of the structure as well as the previous 19 th century spire did. Great Art is the product of ecstatic inspiration “to make” something of transcendent beauty.
LucidDreamer Entertainment It may seem odd, but the combined weight of the spire and roof are required to keep the structure intact. If the weight is reduced by using, even another similar but natural material, like zinc, the building could suffer structurally as the weight of Zinc is considerably less than Lead. The only solution is to again use lead and ignore the nonsense that stipulates elemental lead is poisonous, toxic and dangerous...lead is only dangerous when it’s a compound.
Hopefully they don't use some modernist garbage for it.
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you mean like fire suppression systems ?
@@RubberDucky999 No, she meant that hopefully they won't redesign the 19th-century spire that fell
If these motherfucker dare pull anything like that, we will burn their office down. It's poetic justice.
The spire was a modern addition.
it's a miracle ND is still standing !! With the God help, we will rebuild it.
Why did god not protect it?... day off perhaps?.
Elfed Owen 😐😐
@@johnperic6860 Some people take literally that sermon about God watching over every little bird and flower. Tell that to the flocks that get sucked into the engines of a jet plane every year.
True Gothic edifices as seen in the old Cathedrals of N.West Europe are very resilient. I recommend a google search for “Cologne Cathedral WW II photos”.
@@gondolacrescent5 The Cologne Cathedral is about 60% not True gothic but built in the 19th century as they finished the Cathedral. It was not damaged in the War because thank god the british had to use it as Orientation point. If they didnt they would gladly destroy it as they did with the rest of Cologne and Germany.
Yes, rebuilt, not redesigned, except where special reinforcement is required.
Yes, but this is also a massive feat for architecture and engineering. Please understand that an intense fire changes the structure of the rock that survived, too. So everything has to be carefully taken into account to literally achieve the miracle of resurrecting Notre Dame de Paris... It may take 5 years, or 10 years, or more. But it will be done exquisitely, brilliantly, precisely and -- with God's help -- successfully. Each recovered broken piece can be saved for a future museum exhibit or other appropriate use. The French people's deputies in the government voted on behalf of the people for a faithful, exact recreation of what was destroyed. That is the plan. It will still be a miracle when it is done. I urge everyone to donate whatever they are able to contribute.
So, maybe everywhere? Nobody knows how brittle the stone has become yet.
I see no reason why the roof structure should not be of steel. The part that "shows" can still look as it did before the fire.
@@johnqpublic4055 Because steel has massive problems with heat. While steel melts at around 1200°C to 1500°C it looses most of its strength at around 800°C (your average camp-fire temperature). No firefighter can estimate how much weight the roof can still support when looking at it.
Wood on the other hand burns relatively even and the burnt pieces form a protective carbon layer around it, meaning everything under it still has near 100% strength. Therefore you look at the thickness of the beam and roughly estimate its remaining strength.
Yes, with a steel roof fires are more unlikely, but if one were to break out the damage would be a great deal worse.
@@Ruhrpottpatriot I have seen analyses showing that the medieval builders put the high point of the stone buttresses in the wrong places on the walls. As long as they are going to spend so much money, perhaps they can rebuilt the buttresses (with steel frames in them), abut them against the walls in the proper places, and make them strong enough to hold up a steel roof - all with preserving the historic look.
Heartache. Heartbreak. (I've been inside Notre Dame 100's of times. I miss walking inside of it, with all of what's left of my heart.)
hey
You are lucky that you did get to see it. I never saw it but was about to go but then this happened. : (
My Lady dont worry, we take care about you. Love you, Notre-Dame from France.
Has anyone discovered who set the blaze? It was without doubt arson as the timbers of the roof would have been impossible to set afire without an accelerant, which is also indicated by the color of the smoke during the fire. Someone or some cause is to blame and this needs to be discovered before more great architecture is damaged or destroyed. There must be a reckoning for such wanton destruction. There isn’t a single person acquainted with accelerants who would doubt this wasn’t arson in addition to anyone aquatinted with how oak ages, arson is not the question, the only question is who and why.
I think we know who and why don't you?
You are absolutely right. And yes, we all know precisely who did that horrible thing but, in France, everyone keeps silence, especially the Government. So sad and so shocking !
The Muslims!!!! Why?? To take over France by destroying it’s history .There you go.We ALL know! Macron can go to HELL!
Actually, they have ruled out arson. No accelerant has been found. It also started on a portion of the roof that very few people have access to.
They have been able to track it down to either cigarettes, or an electrical socket.
Basically, it has been tracked back to the people doing the restoration. Lots of cigarette butts were found in the area the fire started. Meaning that the people doing the restoration have been smoking there a lot. It was also found the the power tools being used were in excess of safety limits for the sockets.
How can a cigarette butt start a huge fire like that? It happens all the time.
We had a bridge here that was really old and large portions of it were made of wood. It constantly got set on fire by people just tossing their cigarette butts on the ground. Usually after a sporting event. They'd get kicked around, or blown by the wind and end up on some wood and set it a blaze. It was such a problem, that they finally just rebuilt the bridge.
I'm sure a simple Google search would turn up many buildings new and old being burned down by just a simple little cigarette butt.
I was there in 1980. It's such a beautiful building. I would hope they would restore it to how it was before the fire rather than making changes...
Why repeat a design that basically exploded? They're not going to use wood in the new roof.
Joseph Astier why don’t they make it more “inclusive” because thats what we all need
@@muhammadabadi6410 Why not both?
Joseph Astier if the previous design wasn’t inclusive enough then i don’t know what to say other than were fucked
@John K Was that snarky comment really necessary?
Rebuild this masterpiece to the way it was.
Without the wood though. That fire was nearly impossible to stop.
@@josephastier7421 they should just rebuilt it with concrete and just put wood on top of it so that it still looks the same but won’t be burned as easily
@@buzzlightyear1010 That kind of a double roof is kind of what they had. Anrched masonry roof and then a wooden attic over that. The attic burned away, and had the masonry roof not been there, the flying buttresses would have pushed the walls into the hall and the whole thing would have come down, possibly taking the bell towers with it.
Still Glad that the original bells are still intact and no one died in the fire
Thank you for your comment, Shane. There are some concerns over lead that was released in the destruction. People are also discussing how to rebuild the cathedral to secure its safety, which is not a given. We recently featured an article on these two questions on our site that you might find interesting. It's written by Agnès Poirier, a writer with an upcoming book titled 'Notre-Dame: The Soul of France.' Tell us what you think: www.ft.com/content/7e81e6ee-d94c-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17.
There will be many more of that died of lead poisoning who visited in the coming centuries there is no way to remove all that dust. In the streets have been closed off in certain areas around the church because the high levels of lead is just beyond toxic
When the news showed that the Notre Dam was burning, I screamed, “ Those SOB’s have set the cathedral on fire! I had the opportunity to visit her in 1999 & she is magnificent.
Adriane Halaby - Who?
Ajourneyofknowing 1912, I think you know...
Robert Whatley - George Brinton McClellan
@@johnperic6860 - The Malaysians
@Allô français canadien same difference?
i am so grateful that there are many skilled and profound architects that are striving to rebuild this magnificent cathedral , my heart broke when I first saw it engulfed in flames. However, seeing that the cross was not touched was really beautiful. Not to mention, no one was injured thank god and alot of the cathedral's relics were safe
high technology yesterday, high technology today, this is the destiny of the beautiful Notre-Dame ! still very long life to you Notre-Dame !
I don’t know if it is true but i read somwhere that some of the the wooden structure came from trees of the 8th century!
This is true :)
Yes
True, the trees were already 300 years old when they constructed the cathedral
France has more trees than you can wave a stick at (pun intended). 32% is forest, of which at least half is broadleaf. Europe has been expanding its forests for a few decades. The situation in France is that a goodly amount of forest is privately owned so no one was in a position to say if the wood was or would be made available.
I've seen a number of major church/cathedral restorations since living here. You can rest assured the work will be of the best quality.
When I heard they were considering making the roof area "modern, reflecting a broader world view", I was horrified. To redesign this masterpiece would be a crime against humanity. It would be akin to topping the Great Pyramid with the Golden Arches of a McDonald's restaurant.
mmsmith1777
Same here, the political correctness is everywhere 🙄.
If the left/liberals could have it their way it would be replaced with a Mosque 🕌
@@fluffyhamster550; If one wants stupid you're their go to eh...
@@fluffyhamster550 you do realise the right in France is liberal?? just because the US is extremely backwards doesn't mean the rest of the world is...
Lots have been said by the media but no the framework of the roof will be made in oak wood like the original. Oak trees have already been selected and coordinated by France Bois Forêt for the provision of 1,000 century-old oak trees coming from both public and private owners from all over the country. The mobilisation around the rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris is national. Individuals donated half of the felled oaks, with the National Forestry Office donating the other half.
4,000 square meters of woods and forests will thus be used to rebuild one of the most beautiful monuments in France.
I heard that Disney was gonna do a live action remake of the Hunchback of Norte Dame. Guess it’s going to take a while before they can work on it
Disney is irrelevant. Disney is about making money by selling a product. I know this from personal experience. Working at Disney teaches you it is hardly the "Magic Kingdom."
@@rr7firefly Disney used to be original and make good movies but now all they do is recycle the classics by remakes
@@seastorm9548 Many of their iconic classics were just remakes of old fairy tales, though.
@@thomaszinser8714 And they were inspired by books and the iconic classic movies didn't repeat the original stories exactly
Unless they used another cathedral, like Notre Dame in Reims.
I m with this situation in Paris in death Notre - Dame very sad so sad!!! I wish you Notre - Dame new life and good health non death!!!!
The restoration must leave Notre Dame exactly as it was before the fire.
Why? It’s been added too and rebuilt over many fires throughout its life. Why not add to it again instead of living in the past. The past is dead literally destroyed. Move on create something new
alan B because it’s history
Ayuwoki though I agree it should go back to the way it was before the fire, your argument that “it’s history” doesn’t make sense since historically, Notre Dame was being significantly altered every other century.
The cathedral has been almost entirely rebuilt less than 100 years after its first basements and has been highly improved many times over the years... the gargoyles has been built in the 18th century despite being a typical Middle Ages figures... a little piece of the 21th century people would be perfectly legitimate... maybe in the inside since it was not spectacular besides the big glass roses...
Why? A cathedral is a living building. Why can't it evolve along with the times in which it resides?
Imagine if we put this much effort into restoring the rain forests
nature heals itself better than when humans mess with it; we just need to stop chopping down more old-growth forests with all its biodiversity, stop building parking lots and fast-food factory-farms
For people that say that we could use the money for the ocean or the amazon or something please read the following: A billion dollars is objectively a nice amount of money, but if you were to donate it to a cause like an ocean clean up foundation or an amazon rainforest foundation it wouldn’t be enough money to make even a small dent in the current problem. To clean all of the ocean you would need much more money, but also the plastic and pollution would still come in from people like you and me. Plastic flows from rivers and oceans and chemicals come from factories from all around the world. The amazon forest (a billion dollars donated) would only make a small dent in the fires… which would be reversed, why? Because the citizens of Bresil WANT the fires to happen, they want to burn the trees, so plant trees and they will burn them again… It’s horrible, but we need to do the same thing: hit at the source: do something about Bolsonaro.
I will assume you are young, less than 15 because you don’t know the value of culture and buildings. The world is complicated, If we could fix the amazon and solve climate change, we would. You will learn in time. The poor, once again, would be the same story, without eduction, it’s hard and almost impossible to get a good job.
Also to completely seal you, this money was donated by millions of people. It is the people’s choice, the french government has nothing to do with this money.
Mathias Bedrossian bailbondsh police department is coming for you
Having visited Notre Dame Cathedral years ago, the fire was disheartening. My surprise and delight at seeing that one of gargoyles survived, although not in the location where I had my picture taken with it.
May God bless, help and protect everyone who participates, in any way, in this noble cause. Merci à tous! Thank you for this video, FT!
Wonderful that science and technology can resurrect this historical gem. What times we live in.
And yet they still wont tell us what caused the fire
They did though. It was a electrical short circuit.
michael heredia that’s an excuse there was an arsonist burning down religious places around the area of notre dame
Of course, they won't... It'd politically incorrect if they tell about the religion of this "electrical short circuit" probably born across the Mediterranean...
cerverg can’t wait till they make it more inclusive
@@muhammadabadi6410 They should build a minaret to blast prayers 5 times a day
What a sad sad day....April 15th. It was mind blowing, heart wrenching to think our beloved Notre Dame was on fire. We the public want reconstruction not redesigning, we want it the way all these years we have enjoyed this marvelous Church. Don't forget...you France have a Monarch going to rise up and save France from the infidels and push them back to their own countries. France regain your independence and find your loyalty to. God. Without God you are nothing. We in America love you, and create a fund that all can contribute to assist the billionaires who said they would cough up millions to foot the bill for this. If it takes 5 or 10 years, do it right. The world is watching you, God is watching.
Give us our beloved ....Notre Dame again.....Our Lady. God Bless the French people. Where's your backbone? Fight for this.
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I hope the reconstruction will have some active fire protection like sprinklers. I know that it won't be something beautiful but it could provide some automatic highly important early fire prevention.
C’est sûr que c’est apparement le top moumoute de la sécu pour vous. Je m’en fend la poire les potos.
A masterpiece, it can never be replaced. It will never be the same.
It will be the same in construction details. As much of the same materials as can be salvaged wiill be used in the reconstruction will be restored. What has been rendered unuseable will be replaced and likely "Aged" to match the present interior.
Sell blocks of the burnt trusses as a momento to raise money !
Coenie Breytenbach good idea only imagine the church wouldn’t be happy with that
they’d be happy with the euro, amen amen
@@leopardshepherd1165 Blocks of the German wall was sold!
Coenie Breytenbach a bit different, selling parts of a holy building is probably not going to go down well
I was thinking the same thing, carve little crosses for necklace pendants; but then again, that might encourage the same thing from other historic sites as well
Thank you FT for this update...hope you will do more over time to show the progress.
Thanks for keeping for everyone informed on the restoration process . Some of us actually care .
In France, soon after this fire, we have passionate carpenters enthusiastic about the idea of rebuilding this roof structure in a way identical to the original one. That part was very old and dated from the origin (not the fallen spire that was a reconstruction of the 19 th century, the original one, of simpler aspect, had been removed because in bad condition few years before the revolution). It is the disappearance of that ancient frame of roof that has been the most shocking for French people.
Some owners of oak forests were volunteers to give trunks of oaks. In some (State) oak forests in France trees are felled each year at about 200 years old, within the limit of the growth in volume of wood of younger trees in the same forest, so there is no loss of wood. These trunks of woods are popular (especially for barrels for great wines) and even now sold to China. Originally the trees ('quercus sessiliflora" in latin) had been planted, under the reign of Louis XIV, to in the future make of them ship masts. But times have changed.
It would probably be more prudent to rebuild a metal roof. Actually It would not matter because the roof structure would not be seen, no more than formerly. Other cathedrals in France, of as great artistic value and maybe even more than Notre Dame of Paris, such as Chartres and Reims, already have roofs in metal structure following wars and fires.
But it is true that Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, symbolically and historically because it is situated in the capital of the country, has a special value for French people.
Thank you builders for restoring our beautiful Notre Dame! I wonder about the stained glass. Ive always heard the glass cannot be reproduced because the formula was lost.
It is so pretty to see all the details in the bright day light
I hope they can reconstruct it as closely as possible to the original. Not only is it a place of worship, but a genuine creation of artfully, masterful beauty. It's a treasure not only to France, but to the whole world.
My Aunty Gritzella says they've given the hunchback a new home. We all very happy for him.
I was talking to a stranger about the fire when it happened. The person said that the Cathedral should be converted into a mosque because all white French Catholics will be gone in a few generations and there is no point in repairing it to its former glory. I said it was never going to happen.
Natural Cambion i highly doubt that that happened. Notre dame is a major part of history, no need to be religious to recognise that.
There are a lot of people now a days who are not religious, but still love Notre dame. Yes, Notre dame is still used as a church but it’s not just that. It’s part of France’ history. No one wants that gone (except maybe extremists, from both sides)
a stranger ....
And you listened...
Thank you for keeping te French commentary, rather than a voice-over. It made more of a pleasure to watch an excellent video and concentrate more on it. I speak and write French fluently and never spoke English till age 14.
They will do that at least for 20 years this restoration if not more...as i know French mentality. They do everything so slow just like here in Montreal. Everything is upside down for many years ahead unfortunately.
yes but as the Olympics Games are going to take place in 2024 in Paris, they want it to be open for the event (because it's the 1rst touristic monument in Europe). Just to take away all the stained glasses should had take 5 years and they dit it in 10 days...so for the first time, my country is working pretty hard...
Poor stupid ineducated guy.
Moron
First time? In greece they are "restoring" an average-sized theater with great audio for the last 20 years
The Germans could do it in 3 weeks
@@benjobenjo407 The French can do one thing very fast; capitulating
This so painful 😔 see how it’s hurting for cathedral today watching it now we help be fixed soon it’s part of our history for it 🇫🇷 Notre Dame she very beautiful lovely to see it in person there have one ☝️ in Canada 🇨🇦 a litter under stand that it happened to our church ⛪ there burning it two time in Los Angeles California
Weren't they doing a 3-D scan 'before' the fire as prep work to Joan's fabulous, timely rescue of 'man's' achievement? Where would we be without her?
Such a sad thing, but so glad nobody died, and that the place is getting rebuilt.
As an American, where can I donate to help the reconstruction effort? I don’t have a lot to give but I want to help in any little way I can.
Google : « don pour Notre Dame de Paris».....👍
thanks for this very instructive edit
greetings
The Lord works in strange ways. Perhaps the more extensive rebuild needed after the fire is a gift.
J’imagine que les mecs en californie doivent se dorent la même chose avec leur baraques cramées, vraiment une magnifique métaphore de la vie. Je vais me lire un petit extrait de Descartes pour me relaxer en pensant à dieu.
As a surveyor myself I've done conventional, gps, and laser scanning!!!!!! And have combined them all. Been surveying for 30 years!!!! Seen the crude to the technical!!!
What a painful event. The collective world morns this beautiful and extraordinary structure. Hard to believe WE can build something even close... if that were possible, where are the “Like” successes?....All is made worse, by the lack of clear and honest reasons for the blaze. Heartbreaking loss.....those committed to repair,...... deepest respect, and thank you.
How will it look ,exactly how it was ,its disrespectful to change it , as people want to see notre dame not Notre greenhouse or notre lights
Hope they use steel interested of wood this time, it's not like it'll look any different, just less flammable and we spare the trees.
Nous te salluon, ô, toi, Notre Dame
Marie Vierge Sainte qui drape le soleil
Couronnée d'Étoiles
La lune es sus te pas
En toi nous es donne
L'Aurore du salut
Marie Eve nouvelle
Et joie de ton seigneur
Tu as donne naissaince a
Jesus Le Sauveur
.......
I don't know French, but I love this song about the mother of Jesus.
I saw after some weeks people singing ' Je vous salue Marie ' while the cathedral was burning.
I was happy to know that it would be restored. The French people wants her as she was.
In my point of view the church of Christ is the people who believes in Christ.
Maria is ' Eve Nouvelle ', a nova Eva que iria obedecer e ser fiel a Deus sempre.
Tu restée fidele
Mére a pied de la Croix
Soutien notre esperance et
Guarde notre foi.
It's so beauriful , this song.
' Courronnée d'Étoiles '
Crowned by stars like in Apocalypse 12.
I hope they don’t change anything I’m not French but visiting Norte dame has always been on my bucket list so I will be really sad if it’s not as close to the original as possible also it’s such a beautiful piece of human history it needs to be preserved
Also I really hope it doesn’t just take 5 Years to rebuild they should take as much time as they need to build it and not rush it
Keep it the same with exception of the structural body.
Good idea.
This is neat! And I love the narrator's accent 😄
If only we managed real problems like this in the world.
People don't know how long lucky they are that the cathedral burned four days before Easter Eve. It was going to be burned during Easter celebration with all the people locked inside.
I am glad i had the opportunity to go to Notre Dame November 2018. I made a short video, so will be able to see how it was. I will post some time.
I feel so lucky to have been inside it before the fire. I was there last year, reconstruction is going strong. I hope to see it again in 5 years
This was three months ago now. I wonder what it looks like on the inside after this much time. Apparently very little has still changed. I really do hope that they rebuild it in the original style. That’s what the vast majority of the world wants.
Blessed
There should be a public shaming of those who pledged restoration money and then fail to place this money in trust accounts under supervision of trustworthy accountants. The point is - you stood up and shouted from the mountain-tops that you would support a restoration. Now put your money where you loud mouth was.. Or was it all a puiblicity stunt??? More than likely in this day and age.
Buena documentación
0:50 they STILL have the old bells there. That's a surprise.
I was there a few weeks ago and it was so sad seeing this magnificent building in it's current condition. Sometimes I think architects believe going 'all modern' in repair work is the best option. It might be cheaper in some cases, but will it last the test of time?
Planes, Trains, Everything. Modernization of the Cathedral will last longer than keeping the old design. Although i like to see the cathedral unchanged, for the cathedral to survive an unpredictable future, it must require some modernization
I can only imagine that they had to go back to history book, records, and ancient blueprints to rebuilt how it was and nothing changed.
Good stuff.
I'll come and lend a hand. Greetings from the US...
A fire that just happened all by itself.
Merci beaucoup. Hopefully something like a go fund me fund can be used to help in the reconstruction. Certainly people around the world would want to help.
Bravo
I feel like I'm in a "Jack Ryan" Episode.
I liked the New designs with a glass celing. The stained glass is ruined anyway so they might as well let in some light. The New shining tower locked also great. Luckily the parts that burned was not the best parts of the building. The building can be improved.
Ok folks, corporations, governments, foundations, etc, it's time to send your pledges in. I'm American and not even Catholic, but my donation was sent months ago. For God's sake, please come through. This work of art is important to all of civilization; it must be restored.
Thank you
Do the job right,don't skimp on quality, build it just like it was. From ..Canada and all of Americas.
The stinky smell and sickenning vaporous stink coming off the four or five hundred year old woodden beams in a cathederal in London I visited a week after this fire proved to me that It was a blessing in disguise to get rid of old wood thats diseased by time.
What is that building beside Notre Damej?
Anything scheduled for disposal can be used to help raise funds I’d pay for a piece with certification.
👍remarquable ! Thanks
It seems that aluminum or steel that are fireproof should be used to reconstruct the roof just like it was before the fire. Steel would have been used in Medieval times had it been available. The first step is to restore the roof, which would be used to support the restoration of the vaults.
Zis video is very interesting
In the future, the millennial generation of France will be able to look back and be proud that they were the ones whose expertise & dedication restored Notre Dame. If you want passionate engineers, you need look no further than France.
i am thankful for technolgy to rebuild as original..
Wow
Toujours pas de nouvelles pour savoir ce qu'il s'est exactement passé 😝😝😝🤩🤩🤩
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We have already seen the video of the spire collapsing!
My heart breaks...as well as a little of my faith in humanity....fire ravages the Norte Dame Cathedral in Paris. French Tycoons and Billionaires out pledge each other for reconstruction funds and notoriety. Now that $ is needed, the donors don't want to pay anything until they can see proposals, estimates and invoices.
Will San Chapelle be the next target ??
The only thing they should change from the original is use modern structural supports like metal reinforced walls so it’s stronger for the future without changing any visible aspects
Take your time; do it right. We will wait, patiently.
Well luckily the base structure is all stone so even if it falls it can be put back together. This was such a shame though I blame the damn hunchback.
Public: ?
Architect: Notre-Dame Mini Mall coming soon!
Mais !? C’est pas blesipo les mecs et meufs!? Je béton sur des comm giquema. Trop cherbran pour moi toussa toussa. Je parles au jeuns m’a couille .
Has the cause of the fire come out yet?
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It’s just not the same if they rebuild it
... but there is no alternative, I think.
As long as they keep the socialist world architects away from it. Imagine a Bauhaus version of the great cathedral or a modern art version or a world religion Islamic-inspired version in this Christian temple. Jamais!
You do realize many other great Gothic buildings in France were also either burned or completely destroyed and rebuilt, don't you? Chartres Cathedral, Reims Cathedral, Sessions Cathedral, St. Quinton Church, Rouen Cathedral, to name a few, were all nearly destroyed and rebuilt in the last century. Rebuilding Paris Cathedral will be fabulous, as long as the insane modernists don't get their evil little hands on it.
What happend to that hunchback guy that was spotted in cctv camera with sparks at 17u that day. Anyone?
As Steve Marten said! WHAT HAPPENED WHAT HAPPENED???? HE SPOKE FRENCH!!!!!