How should the Grand Lady of Paris, France be rebuilt?

[Jonathan Bailey]

Should Notre Dame be restored with true faith to the original?

Should steel beams replace the original timbers?

Should this cold, dark medieval Gothic monstrosity be leveled altogether and replaced with something more enlightened in architecture in the form of the Renaissance as St. Peter's Basilica, The Queen of Catholic Churches? How about beautiful, white light and cheerful Baroque architecture as St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany designed, decorated and painted with frescoes by three collective Baroque Period Italians and also housing the largest pipe organ in Europe?

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau - Wikipedia

 

[Revoltingest]

I like historical monstrosities.
To level & replace it smacks of Talibanism.

 

[metis]

I think it should be replicated as closely as possible, but with more safeguards. However, I'm not a Parisian nor a parishioner there nor the clergy there, so it's what ever they decide that's important.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Should Notre Dame be restored with true faith to the original?

Should steel beams replace the original timbers?

Should this cold, dark medieval Gothic monstrosity be leveled altogether and replaced with something more enlightened in architecture in the form of the Renaissance as St. Peter's Basilica, The Queen of Catholic Churches? How about beautiful, white light and cheerful Baroque architecture as St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany designed, decorated and painted with frescoes by three collective Baroque Period Italians and also housing the largest pipe organ in Europe?

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau - Wikipedia

Perserve what history remains, build to make more history.

 

[PureX]

It's already a monument to the idea of 'shoring up' an imperfect structure, so I would continue in the line of thought. Bolt steel plates to the sides of the original timbers to give them more strength. Buttress the buttresses, etc.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's already a monument to the idea of 'shoring up' an imperfect structure, so I would continue in the line of thought. Bolt steel plates to the sides of the original timbers to give them more strength. Buttress the buttresses, etc.

Strengthening requires careful analysis.
If too much weight is added, this could make things worse.

 

[shunyadragon]

Should Notre Dame be restored with true faith to the original?

Should steel beams replace the original timbers?

Should this cold, dark medieval Gothic monstrosity be leveled altogether and replaced with something more enlightened in architecture in the form of the Renaissance as St. Peter's Basilica, The Queen of Catholic Churches? How about beautiful, white light and cheerful Baroque architecture as St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany designed, decorated and painted with frescoes by three collective Baroque Period Italians and also housing the largest pipe organ in Europe?

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau - Wikipedia

It will be restored wood timbers as original with reinforcing. I support the restoration for historical reasons not religious.

 

[Jonathan Bailey]

I like historical monstrosities.
To level & replace it smacks of Talibanism.

Or it smacks of the thoughts of Renaissance and Baroque Italian architects who saw the Gothic as "Germanic and barbarous".

Italians, even Catholics, frown upon Gothic architecture. I don't know why the French even embraced it historically.

I find the Romanesque even more eye-pleasing with it's tall rounded, castle-turret-like towers and rounded arches.

The St. Peter's Basilica of the Vatican in Rome is much more bright and cheery: a rival of the Classical of Roman and Greek antiquity.

From the Renaissance through the Enlightenment, much of Gothic architecture was phased out and western European cathedrals were replaced or some Gothic buildings were given a facelift to reflect newer ages.

 

[Valjean]

I heard Denmark is donating 100,000,000 Legos...

 

[shunyadragon]

I heard Denmark is donating 100,000,000 Legos...

. . . 2 tons of chocolate.

 

[Fool]

Should Notre Dame be restored with true faith to the original?

Should steel beams replace the original timbers?

Should this cold, dark medieval Gothic monstrosity be leveled altogether and replaced with something more enlightened in architecture in the form of the Renaissance as St. Peter's Basilica, The Queen of Catholic Churches? How about beautiful, white light and cheerful Baroque architecture as St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany designed, decorated and painted with frescoes by three collective Baroque Period Italians and also housing the largest pipe organ in Europe?

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau - Wikipedia

welcome to RF. nice thread.

 

[Valjean]

I've heard of gingerbread houses, but chocolate cathedrals?
It would be devoured in a week.

 

[Jonathan Bailey]

I think it should be replicated as closely as possible, but with more safeguards. However, I'm not a Parisian nor a parishioner there nor the clergy there, so it's what ever they decide that's important.

Perhaps, you are right. Let the French deal with their own Dark Ages Lady with a "singed scalp": she's their baby. Notre Dame is property of the French State and not the Church though the Church has the privilege of its use. In America, no church would be owned by the State save for chapels on military installations.

 

[Wandering Monk]

It would kind of lose its historical glory if they made it into a skate park.

 

[Vinayaka]

Should Notre Dame be restored with true faith to the original?

Should steel beams replace the original timbers?

Should this cold, dark medieval Gothic monstrosity be leveled altogether and replaced with something more enlightened in architecture in the form of the Renaissance as St. Peter's Basilica, The Queen of Catholic Churches? How about beautiful, white light and cheerful Baroque architecture as St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany designed, decorated and painted with frescoes by three collective Baroque Period Italians and also housing the largest pipe organ in Europe?

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau - Wikipedia

Same as before but a lot more hidden water sprinklers, and back up hidden water sprinklers.

 

[Revoltingest]

Same as before but a lot more hidden water sprinklers, and back up hidden water sprinklers.

Filled with holy water.

 

[Vinayaka]

Filled with holy water.

yeah it puts out the flames (of Hell) better than regular water.

 

[Revoltingest]

yeah it puts out the flames (of Hell) better than regular water.

Unless one is Satan's servant....then it burns!

 

[Vinayaka]

Unless one is Satan's servant....then it burns!

No. That's the whiskey they hide in secret corners of Bishop's desks.

 

[Revoltingest]

No. That's the whiskey they hide in secret corners of Bishop's desks.

Whiskey made perhaps from holy water?