Re: Notre-Dame
Reply #18 –
It is an interesting position. The French Government owns Notre Dame, not the Catholic Church. The works and church are insured - although would need to see the outcome of the Insurance process. $1b to renovate a church? Seems like a lot. I would imagine there will be caveats on the donations (the big ones).
It was/is an amazing building. It will also be interesting to see if they rebuild to what it was, or build something modern instead.
I heard an architect talking about repairing historical cathedrals after war damage, fire, etc and the examples he mentioned used modern/different materials to achieve a similar appearance. He thought that it would be crazy to rebuild with timber.