Fortunately, There Are Incredible 3D Scans of Notre Dame

Futurism.com ^ | Natalie Coleman

[a fool in paradise]

Can’t read.

But put a Starbucks in the ground floor why don’t you?

[blueplum]

I found some more artisans - Chinese ones lol:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6931573/Web-users-China-tell-people-replicated-cathedral.html

for the bad news: DM is also reporting that a rose window wall is leaning out 8 inches. (street side)

the other bad news: PM Phillipe wants an international competition to redesign the spire/steeple. Not real hot about that idea in the least.

[a fool in paradise]

Is it going to be a Catholic church or a United Nations multicultural art exhibit with muslim prayer rooms etc?

[redshawk]

The biggest trick will be matching the roof load to replicate the in-out pressure on the walls and flying buttresses.....

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Exactly. However, structural engineers today have a vast knowledge and computers to assist them. I’m sure their calculations will be double checked in triplicate.

[Billthedrill]

...the other bad news: PM Phillipe wants an international competition to redesign the spire/steeple.

Something in a nice minaret, perhaps?

[Windflier]

PM Phillipe wants an international competition to redesign the spire/steeple. Not real hot about that idea in the least.

Let's hope that idea goes over like a lead balloon.

That's scary news about the rose window. From what I've read, only one of the three survived the fire.

[Larry Lucido]

If only Mr. Kruger were still with us.

[Swordmaker]

Unfortunately they can’t just 3D print up a thousand skilled stone masons, labor to haul the limestone from the quarry, and a few centuries to make it all happen.

Good thing none of the stone work appears to have been materially damaged then. All the damage was confined to the wooden timbered roof which was covered by lead/tin alloy sheathing. The stone groins below the wooden timbers were uninsured. It’s a matter of rebuilding the roof supports out of modern either wooden or metal engineered prestressed trusses, and then re-roofing with modern materials, then rebuilding the spire that was replaced in the mid 1880s with one not made from flammable materials. Stone masons would have little to do with it except for minor repair/restoration that already needed to be done.

[bingoplayer]

Wow. Is there any doubt it was Muslims. I cant give anything else any credibility.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"It'll be interesting to see what material is finally chosen for the roof covering. You know it won't be lead. Copper is probably the next best choice."

solar panels.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If the original U.S. Constitution were burned up in a fire

There is a better chance of me winning the Powerball lottery than that happening. And I don't play the lottery. It is a tax on the mathematically challenged.

But I agree with your point.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Unfortunately they can’t just 3D print up a thousand skilled stone masons

Thanks be to Him that the stone traceries and glass of the Rose windows escaped damage. That kind of stone work would take decades to reproduce...if such artisans even exist.

[dforest]

Yeah, but they do not look like a mosque. The new one will. Macron will see to it and deny it looks like a mosque and if you say it looks like a mosque you will be guilty of hate and punished.

whew, that wore me out