Posted on 05/28/2019 10:01:54 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
On Monday evening, the French Senate approved the government's Notre-Dame restoration bill - but added a clause that it must be restored to the state it was before the blaze, striking a blow to the government which had launched an international architecture competition to debate ideas on the restoration.
The subject of the rebuilding of the cathedral - which was left badly damaged after fire tore through the roof and destroyed the spire on April 15 - has become a fraught battleground between traditionalists who want an exact restoration and others who favour a more imaginative take.
Some of the suggestions have included a rooftop garden, an 'endless spire' of light and a swimming pool on top of the building.
The Senate has now approved the restoration bill already passed by the French parliament to allow work on the structure to be completed in time for the Paris Olympics in 2024 - but requires that the restoration be faithful to the “last known visual state” of the cathedral, in an attempt to check the government, which has launched an international architectural competition soliciting designs for renovation.
Senators also removed a controversial clause from the law which would give the government the power to override regulations on planning, environmental and heritage protection and public tenders. Many members of the Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, have been especially critical of President’s Macron’s promise to finish reconstruction within five years.
Another minor modification is the backdating of a proposed tax break for those who have made donations for the cathedral’s reconstruction.
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
“Some sanity for a change.”
Agree! One of the first things they need to do while planning, in my opinion, is to design the very best security and fire suppression systems.
Excellent!! It looked like it would be made a museum that looked like a mosque
They’d end up with that ridiculous looking POS we got dirtying the skyline in downtown Manhattan.
Amazing how only one builder wanted to replace the towers exactly as they were.
He even had a model he showed to the public.
He is now our Preaident.
So, no minarets?
Good news!
I’d actually like to see them rebuild it as it was but leave off the spire. The spire was added much later and ruins the clean lines of the original design IMO.
I am tired of the secular humanists trying to destroy or undermine anything built to glorify God.
Ignorant fools.
Whether you believe in God or the Christian faith, trying to usurp after the fact, the great things that man has maid to glorify their God, is morally repugnant and ignorant.
Considering what’s sitting out front of the Louvre, I don’t think that dude wants to go there...
let's not forget using fireproof labor (ie, no muslims) to build and maintain it.
Precision Laser Scans of Notre Dame Cathedral Can Help to Preserve, Restore, and Rebuild
On the other hand, it is argued that the organ will not sound exactly the same because building acoustics probably won’t be the same as before fire.
Not office friendly. Lower computer volume.
Olivier Latry Final improvisation of the Sunday Mass - Notre Dame de Paris
Maybe the learned after that stupid looking glass thing that desecrates the Louvre.
Won’t the Muslims just burn it down again?
Did they ever have a definitive answer as to what started the fire? I heard a lot of heming and hawing for weeks after. and never heard the final decree.
anyone?
And the requisite fag flag flying from the highest mast
The stars and rainbow bars?
First good news about this tragedy...
I guess that rules out putting minarets over the altars.
We have something called sprinkler systems. The building is only about 300 ft high.
Isn’t that what restoration means? Thank God!
Move it to the US for safekeeping?
Remember 9/11/2001?
I forgot — the country already forgot.
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