Posted on 04/26/2019 6:51:50 AM PDT by C19fan
French architects have revealed a stunning set of plans to redesign the Notre Dame Cathedral's fire-ravaged roof as a greenhouse.
The proposal was shared after French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe proposed 'an international architecture competition' to rebuild the iconic cathedral's spire which was completely destroyed in the fast-spreading blaze on April 15.
Prime Minister Philippe shared his wish that the cathedral should be 'adapted to issues of our time' and architects Studio NAB have come with the concept of turning the damaged roof into a giant greenhouse as a homage to the importance of nature.
The French studio showed off its design, which comes with an apiary that takes the place of the spire.
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Why not Solar Panels and a Windmill where the Spire stood?
Notre Dame du Changement Climatique
Just turn it into a mosque and be done with it.
You know you want to.
Vandals?
Goths.................
I’m confused. I thought DeBlasio wants to get rid of glass to help the environment.
WTF??
It only makes sense to save it if they’re restoring it.
It has historic status....and there are plenty of rules. Wait and see what happens.
Here Come the Architects: Modernists Want Glass Roof, Steel Spire, or Minaret for Notre Dame:
A greenhouse would be cool! My wife and I visited years ago, and climbed to the top of Notre Dame, and around the roofline. It would have been cool to see a garden up there.
Yes, there were bee hives on the roof that miraculously survived!..................
That’s about the fugliest thing I’ve seen since that atrocity they came up with to replace the Twin Towers.
JUST REBUILD IT THE WAY IT WAS FOR 850 YEARS... only FIREPROOF this time.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Looks cool but do they ever get hail there? We found this out the hard way with our skylights.
You can’t build fireproof with lumber... which is what the roof was for 850 years.
The issue of our time is that in society’s obsession with birth control it has pushed God out
The French can keep doing this until it has been completely taken over by the enemy of God but then they’re still going to have issues. And issues that cannot be solved by the grace of God
America is teetering in the same realm
What, no solar panels?
All the articles Ive seen about this, the writers refer to the spire as ‘centuries old’.
It wasn’t. It was built in the 1830’s to replace a spire that had been torn down in the late 1700’s that had deteriorated badly and was in danger of falling down.
The wood was not 870 years old, but just under 200...............
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