Any official news on the exact cause yet? Was it definitely faulty wiring?
I was in Paris two weeks ago and a local told me it was a worker who was smoking and dropped their butt in the wrong place.
(Not sure if that's true)
Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
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Re: Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
#12> 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...
We definitely wouldn't want an other monstrosity like the Louvre Pyramid /s
Re: Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
#13Any official news on the exact cause yet? Was it definitely faulty wiring?
I was in Paris two weeks ago and a local told me it was a worker who was smoking and dropped their butt in the wrong place. (Not sure if that's true)
Re: Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
#14> 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...
It's somewhat ignorant to categorically consider everything contemporary to be a "modern monstrosity", and not just because "modern" in the context of architecture actually means a specific period that ended about 40 years ago.
The Berlin Reichstag is one often-cited example of successful combination of old and new: https://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag&client=safari&rls=...
Re: Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process
#15Any official news on the exact cause yet? Was it definitely faulty wiring?
An unhappy mix of accidental fire source and overly complicated intervention process is what I gathered.