Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
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Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
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Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#2No, let's not.
Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended.
Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#3No, let's not. Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended. Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
What does 'original style' means, though?
Notre Dame was refurbished and changed in the 19th century (and at various other times) . For example, the famous gargoyles are not 'original' at all but date from that time.
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#4No, let's not. Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended. Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
What you call original style is a "modern" modification from the 1800s :)
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#5No, let's not. Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended. Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
Agree 100%
Historic Preservation is very important
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#6Roger Scruton recently wrote about where he suspects the plans for the repair will go:
> It would be wrong to assume that a gang of modernists set fire to Notre Dame – it could perhaps have been an accident. But there was no better way to advance the great project, shared by all forward-looking architects from Le Corbusier to Richard Rogers, of razing Paris to the ground and rebuilding it in concrete, steel and glass. An international competition of the kind proposed by President Macron will in all probability result in a replica of Norman Foster’s Sage Gateshead, expectorated onto the walls of the cathedral, to cling trembling above them like a gob of shiny snot.
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#7No, let's not. Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended. Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
Cathedrals are alive. At the scale of centuries, change is a constant for them. A great deal of Notre Dame is not "original" anyway. For instance, those famous gargoyles, I was surprised to read are actually pretty recent additions (relatively).
All that said, I do agree with you for the most part. Let's not have some arrogant hotshot architect do his flavor of the day on and add the "nosql" of architecture on there.
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#8It's a really unique occasion to try to improve a worldwide-known monument with a very strong identity: every one expects getting a certain gothic experience when they come to visit it. Deviating too much from that is both a risk and an opportunity.
Out of the multitude of kitschy ridiculous high-concept pool-on-roof design sketches, a few will emerge as timeless and delivering what people expect. I bet it's easy to deliver the expected gothic experience when they step inside, and take bold bets on the outside appearance.
Re: Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
#9No, let's not. Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended. Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
Did you read the article, or are you just responding to the title? It sounds like the latter.
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