Here Come the Architects: Modernists Want Glass Roof, Steel Spire, or Minaret for Notre Dame

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[MNDude]

The Telegraph published an article claiming it would be a “travesty” to restore Notre Dame as it was just a day after the fire, while Rolling Stone quoted a Harvard architecture historian as saying that the burning of a building “so overburdened with meaning… feels like an act of liberation.”

[ThePatriotsFlag]

This will be fun to watch (popcorn?). There are NUTS if they build it again of wood (but not sure liberals “live and learn” much these days). I always thought building the WTC again at a great height, they might as well design a big target into the four sides of it. (I learned this in kindergarten when we built block buildings .... the tallest were always the targets of the bullies). But alas they don’t learn. Then throw the secularists in there, then the traditional Christians ... then start following the money for what will be the final design. :-}

[Lurker51]

“Keep anyone who has every said any positive word about “post-modern” away from the rebuilding.”

I have a “postmodern” telephone designed by Michael Graves that I have praised in the past. The reason I have praised it is because it’s ergonomic and doesn’t aggravate my carpal tunnels like most telephones. I sure hope that doesn’t make me a postmodernist, because I abhor modern and postmodern architecture!

[Lurker51]

“Restoration of the classic crafts and religious veneration that inspired the Cathedral’s construction seems no longer possible in much of Christendom today.

Absent some massive pushback against islam and a restoration of Christian faith, seems becomes is.”

That’s not true at all, there are people who specialize in restoring these sort of works. It’s a relatively small field, but it’s not true to say that it is no longer possible.

[Rockingham]

No, Notre Dame is located on an island that is the heart of Paris and is solidly traditional French.

[arthurus]

It would not surprise me if the cathedral is rebuilt as a Mosque and offered to the Mohammedans.

[pepsi_junkie]

Since they see this tragic fire as actually an opportunity to “improve” on Notre Dame my feeling is that should they find success in vandalizing it and we should burn down all their new work so that there is yet another wonderful opportunity to introduce even uglier ideas, which we can burn until ultimately someone produces something in harmony with the original edifice and we can then cry at what a lost opportunity it is for an architect to gain fame (but not burn it, no no no).

[pepsi_junkie]

“These victims of the state could be memorialised by replacing [the spire] with – why not? – a graceful minaret,” Wilkinson insisted.

Now that it's out there, the French will face immense pressure to honor all religions (but really meaning Islam) with their reconstructions. I find it quite possible that they will surrender to the pressure with high sounding words and thus forever besmirch a treasure of human achievement. If there is ever a minaret placed on it, the Mulsims will 100% claim it as their own and start making demands that offensive relics (human remains) be removed, art covered up, etc. It's how they roll.

[a fool in paradise]

UN approved victory mosque coming your way

[a fool in paradise]

>>I say put up a mini rollercoaster on the roof. It would be less sacrilegious than other suggestions I’ve heard.

I could see that.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So, the PC brigade is going to stall Notre Dame as they did the World Trade Center.

[353FMG]

Time for the Woman, to Whom the cathedral is dedicated, steps in.

[bluejean]

““so overburdened with meaning… feels like an act of liberation.”

Very revealing statement, considering that liberals are dedicated to stripping everything they see of meaning, purpose or significance.

[Bookshelf]

They might think of turning to China and the architects in Shanghai. I wouldn’t trust a Western architect to do anything other than screw things up.

[LibWhacker]

I’d only be a little surprised if the arsonists were modernist architects.

[Campion]

Maybe you’re thinking of St. Denis. Notre Dame is in a tourist / museum / business district next to a university (the Sorbonne). Not a tremendous number of people live nearby, and those who do are probably pretty wealthy.

[wally_bert]

In the past few days I’ve passed that eyesore so many times going back and forth to Raleigh for K9 cancer stuff.

The puppy is getting zapped this week and I hope that cuts way back on the trips.

[PghBaldy]

They implemented it, but denied it, and tried to camouflage what they did (planted more trees to hide crescent).

[neverevergiveup]

If Wilkerson is who I think he is, he’s just another academic twit from one of the most overrated universities to exist - the University College of London. He’s just an art history, architecture history junior faculty person with an ego. Universities are brimming with idiots like him. His stupid remarks would be amusing, if he didn’t represent such an ignorant and dangerous viewpoint.

[neverevergiveup]

The very best response, in my view, and one that all of the faithful who have ever prayed in this beautiful cathedral deserve, is a giant cross replacing the spire - one that is lit up at night and visible all around, including in the ‘no-go’ zones.

[AdmSmith]

We should think about strength of materials and that it should be there a long time.