French Senate Passes Bill Demanding Notre Dame be Rebuilt Exactly How It Was Before the Fire – Summit News
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As a “space for thinking and self-reflection”.
A Swedish architecture firm has proposed turning the roof of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris into a giant swimming pool.
Yes, seriously.
In line with the French government’s announcement that a modern, contemporary redesign would be preferred, Stockholm-based Ulf Mejergren Architects (UMA) say the roof of the gothic church should become “a new meditative space with unmatched views over Paris.”
In order to return Notre Dame to “the city and the people” (which was already the situation before the fire), the company wants to install “a large public pool that occupies the whole roof.”
“Our addition is a complementary spatial experience to the building that will match the awe of the great interior; a space for thinking and self-reflection,” said UMA describing their project.
While the proposal sounds bizarre, it’s actually not as bad as some of the other ideas, which include turning the roof of the sacred structure into a giant greenhouse.
vincent callebaut proposes to unite notre dame's nave, roof, and spire with glass canopy https://t.co/xTzL5jv2vw pic.twitter.com/J5dkHfvoY7
— designboom (@designboom) May 7, 2019
Another plan involves turning the roof into a banal garden with a mis-shapen penthouse plonked in the middle.
Architecture expert Tom Wilkinson also called for Notre Dame’s fallen spire to be replaced with an Islamic minaret as an apology to Algerian Muslims killed by French police.
As we previously reported, the French government has forbidden state-employed architects from giving interviews to the media about the Notre Dame fire, which destroyed the cathedral’s spire.
The actual cause of the fire remains a mystery.
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Cause of fire remains a mystery.
The French government has reportedly forbidden state-employed architects from giving interviews to the media about the Notre Dame fire.
That’s according to Antoine Pasquier, editor in chief of news outlet Famille Chrétienne.
Pasquier tweeted that France’s Ministry of Culture has ordered government architects who work for Monuments Historiques, the state body responsible for preserving the architectural heritage of France, not to speak to the press.
Info confirmée par 2 archi des monuments historiques : le ministère de la culture leur interdit de répondre aux interviews sur #Notre-Dame
— Antoine Pasquier (@PasquierA) April 19, 2019
As we highlighted yesterday, despite authorities ruling the fire an “accident,” the actual cause of the blaze has yet to be determined.
The company responsible for elevators in the cathedral said the power to them was cut by workers leaving the site an hour and a half before the fire started.
Electrical wiring that ran through the roof of the cathedral was also up to standards, according to Notre-Dame spokesman Andre Finot.
A scaffolding firm that worked on the site also said that some its employees defied rules by smoking, but asserted that it was impossible for a cigarette butt to burn old oak beams.
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it had not ruled out any hypothesis about the origin of the fire and that all possibilities were still being explored.
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Paris prosecutor’s office says all possibilities still being explored.
Despite authorities ruling that the Notre Dame fire was “accidental,” it remains a mystery as to what started the blaze that engulfed and nearly destroyed the 850 year old gothic cathedral.
Despite police asserting that an electrical short circuit was the probable cause of the fire, Europe Echaffaudage said that the electricity supply to the two lifts on the site “was perfectly within specifications and well maintained”.
The company added that workers had cut power to the elevators when they left the site at 5:20pm, an hour and a half before the fire started.
Electrical wiring that ran through the roof of the cathedral was also up to standards.
“Nothing was ever done without the authorisation of the state…There were no wires dangling, everything was properly installed,” Notre-Dame spokesman Andre Finot said.
A scaffolding firm that worked on the site said that some its employees did defy rules by smoking, but asserted that it was impossible for a cigarette butt to burn oak beams.
“We condemn it. But the fire started inside the building… so for company Le Bras this is not a hypothesis, it was not a cigarette butt that set Notre-Dame de Paris on fire,” Le Bras Frères spokesman Marc Eskenazi said.
The Paris prosecutor’s office re-iterated that it had not ruled out any hypothesis about the origin of the fire and that all possibilities were still being explored.
Meanwhile, Notre Dame may be facing an even bigger threat than the fire itself – modernist architects who plan to rebuild the cathedral to reflect France’s new “diversity”.
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