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Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process

86 points by gruseom 7y ago

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danielam 7y ago
Recent panel about the restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsH2ao7PCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsH2ao7PCU
noodlenotes 7y ago
I hadn't seen recent photos until this article, and I didn't realize how different Notre Dame looks now with all the wooden frames supporting the buttresses. https://images.graph.cool/v1/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2paxj/ck167lker2lm90190z0orsdta/0x0:462x617/960x960/figure_7_the_platform_positioned_above_the_vaults.jpg https://images.graph.cool/v1/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2paxj/ck167...
kev009 7y ago
That is really beautiful work, I didn't know people could do things like this anymore. Much admiration for people that can pull together and put up such high levels of craftsmanship.
- Animats 7y ago
  What, the flying buttress falsework? That looks designed in a CAD program. Probably, all the pieces were cut to match the design, then bolted together. Better to do all that in advance and then carefully move it into place than to try to build it in place by hand. One of the sections of falsework is being hoisted in the picture. Note the custom metal lifting attachment designed to fit it. The supports are a nice piece of work, but routine. Now, restoring the damaged decorative stonework, that will require craftmanship and hand labor.
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6nf 7y ago
Any official news on the exact cause yet? Was it definitely faulty wiring?
- kilroy123 7y ago
  I was in Paris two weeks ago and a local told me it was a worker who was smoking and dropped their butt in the wrong place. (Not sure if that's true)
  - JSeymourATL 7y ago
    Related: > https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/europe/notre-dame-negligence-investigation-intl-scli/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/europe/notre-dame-negligence-...
- Bayart 7y ago
  An unhappy mix of accidental fire source and overly complicated intervention process is what I gathered.
nickserv 7y ago
> will it be the object of a contemporary “architectural gesture”, as suggested by the master-mind of Notre Dame’s restoration, President Emmanuel Macron? Please, no. Restore it to before the spire, or with the spire, either is fine. But please please no modern monstrosity that will age about as well as La Cité Radieuse...
- Jyaif 7y ago
  We definitely wouldn't want an other monstrosity like the Louvre Pyramid /s
- IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago
  It's somewhat ignorant to categorically consider everything contemporary to be a "modern monstrosity", and not just because "modern" in the context of architecture actually means a specific period that ended about 40 years ago. The Berlin Reichstag is one often-cited example of successful combination of old and new: https://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag&client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ACYBGNS1GdZmXr4uAr0UlvqDVhvBgldigQ:1570111046428&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3n7i5n4DlAhXF0qQKHRgPDQEQ_AUIESgB&biw=1288&bih=969 https://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag&client=safari&rls=...

86 points by gruseom 7y ago

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danielam 7y ago

Recent panel about the restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsH2ao7PCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsH2ao7PCU

noodlenotes 7y ago

I hadn't seen recent photos until this article, and I didn't realize how different Notre Dame looks now with all the wooden frames supporting the buttresses. https://images.graph.cool/v1/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2paxj/ck167lker2lm90190z0orsdta/0x0:462x617/960x960/figure_7_the_platform_positioned_above_the_vaults.jpg https://images.graph.cool/v1/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2paxj/ck167...

kev009 7y ago

That is really beautiful work, I didn't know people could do things like this anymore. Much admiration for people that can pull together and put up such high levels of craftsmanship.

Animats 7y ago
What, the flying buttress falsework? That looks designed in a CAD program. Probably, all the pieces were cut to match the design, then bolted together. Better to do all that in advance and then carefully move it into place than to try to build it in place by hand. One of the sections of falsework is being hoisted in the picture. Note the custom metal lifting attachment designed to fit it. The supports are a nice piece of work, but routine. Now, restoring the damaged decorative stonework, that will require craftmanship and hand labor.

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6nf 7y ago

Any official news on the exact cause yet? Was it definitely faulty wiring?

kilroy123 7y ago
I was in Paris two weeks ago and a local told me it was a worker who was smoking and dropped their butt in the wrong place. (Not sure if that's true)
- JSeymourATL 7y ago
  Related: > https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/europe/notre-dame-negligence-investigation-intl-scli/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/europe/notre-dame-negligence-...
Bayart 7y ago
An unhappy mix of accidental fire source and overly complicated intervention process is what I gathered.

nickserv 7y ago

> will it be the object of a contemporary “architectural gesture”, as suggested by the master-mind of Notre Dame’s restoration, President Emmanuel Macron? Please, no. Restore it to before the spire, or with the spire, either is fine. But please please no modern monstrosity that will age about as well as La Cité Radieuse...

Jyaif 7y ago
We definitely wouldn't want an other monstrosity like the Louvre Pyramid /s
IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago
It's somewhat ignorant to categorically consider everything contemporary to be a "modern monstrosity", and not just because "modern" in the context of architecture actually means a specific period that ended about 40 years ago. The Berlin Reichstag is one often-cited example of successful combination of old and new: https://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag&client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ACYBGNS1GdZmXr4uAr0UlvqDVhvBgldigQ:1570111046428&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3n7i5n4DlAhXF0qQKHRgPDQEQ_AUIESgB&biw=1288&bih=969 https://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag&client=safari&rls=...