A global wave of emotion saw 340,000 donors contribute €833 million to restoring the iconic edifice. Some €165m had already been spent by September on securing the cathedral, which was structurally damaged during the fire. A second chunk of €262,6 in donations will go towards phase one of restoration work.
Jean-Louis Georgelin, the general who President Emmanuel Macron tasked with rebuilding Notre-Dame, has pledged it will be sufficiently restored to stage a Te Deum on April 16, 2024 – in time for the Olympic Games in Paris.
Initially Mr Macron’s then prime minister Edouard Philippe said he would launch an international competition to rebuild the destroyed roof and spire, potentially with a modern design “that bears the mark of our time”.
After widespread uproar over architectural flights of fancy, one which even included a swimming pool, the contest was scrapped and the spire, roof and medieval wooden beams are all to be rebuilt as faithfully as possible to the original designs.
The same cannot be said for the interior given current plans, seen by the Telegraph and two European media, including Fild.
In June, Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit said these would “bring the cathedral into the 21st century while preserving its own identity in the spirit of the Christian tradition”.
However, the plans presented by Father Gilles Drouin, the interior will look to the future, not the past.
Under the proposals, visitors will pass through the main entrance and be shepherded towards 14 themed chapels depicting Genesis, Abraham, Exodus and the Prophets but also the five continents. While Africa and Asia will have pride of place, Europe, the Americas and Oceania will either be less evident behind the apse or totally absent. The tour ends at a chapel dedicated to “reconciled creation”, namely environmentalism as set out in Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ encyclical.
Restore it as it was you clowns.
We don’t need architects/artists wanting to make their mark here. They can fuck off
Scamming goodwilling donors out of the better part of a billion dollars by claiming to rebuild it faithfully and then pulling a switcheroo like this is not very nice.
What’s with that trainwreck of a title?
I don’t have access to the article, so I don’t know if it has been mentioned, but it’s only a project. It will be submitted on December 9th. I strongly think that most of the “woke” propositions I’ve seen will be refused.
More woke bait from The Telegraph.
>**Those parts of the building that were damaged by fire will be restored to their former condition**, but under the new plans some areas that were less affected by the disaster will be dramatically changed
The restoration is faithful. The Catholic Church is updating some areas of the interior not damaged in the fire – as they’ve often done in the past.
These mentioned changes aren’t really “woke” when you think about it. Using lighting to convey emotion is just a standard architectural concept for builds like this. And why is it woke to project Bible verses in Mandarin? It seems the interior is being revamped in part to be more explicitly Christian and to spread Christian messages to international visitors. Nothing new, either – Notre-Dame already held international services before the fire. If anything, you’d think a church promoting Christianity to Chinese tourists against the wishes of the CCP and not simply being an old building for them to wander around in would be anti-woke.
Yes the title is not moderate but if you read the proposal is not wrong. Maybe focus on why some people with power want to turn a millennia old cathedral part of the history of Europe to something that as more in common to the art you can find in a favela and not on an title you don’t like.
EDIT: “It’s as if Disney were entering Notre-Dame,” said Maurice Culot, a prize-winning Paris-based architect, urbanist, theorist and critic who has seen the plans.
It’s not only the opimion of the article author but of someone in this area of expertise who lives in Paris.
Meh, I mean, adding new exhibits to a historical building isn’t that unheard of, or crazy. Certainly much better than rebuilding the spire with a ‘modern’ design like was proposed (and rejected) before, as it doesn’t affect the overall building. So the article is pretty inflammatory.
I do find the proposal pretty tasteless and poorly thought out though. What does Notre Dame have to do with Africa and Asia? Nobody goes to Notre Dame to learn about Christianity from an Asian lens. Likewise, who goes to Notre-Dame to learn about environmentalism?
If you’re going to have new exhibits, why not add something that’s relevant to the history of the cathedral, or something people actually want to see? Why not an exhibit about the fire and restoration? Or an expanded exhibit for the history of the cathedral?
Hell, if you want to have a “”woke”” (I hate that word) subtext to it, maybe an exhibit about the cathedral’s construction that emphasizes the communal aspect of it or something?
Not to mention that it would clash artistically with the rest of the restoration. Why are we rebuilding the medieval roof and 19th Century spire, while adding exhibits about environmentalism and Africa? It doesn’t even remotely mesh.
I don’t think anyone wants this, and it comes off more as artistic virtue signalling than any kind of thought out restoration. I would be surprised if it doesn’t end up getting rejected.
Post modernists aren’t happy with creating their own monstrosities and “art”. They have this inane need to also alter and destroy pre-existing properties whether they be material (for example cathedrals) or intellectual (books/movies)
It sounds terrible, but I don’t think I would describe it as woke.
I sincerely hope they make a huge glass roof top, that would be the prettiest panoramic view of Paris. Not too high, just about the right height, slightly above the skyline.
Notre-Dame Cathedral to be revamped to better fit the vapid vision of neoliberal multicultural secular humanism.
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A global wave of emotion saw 340,000 donors contribute €833 million to restoring the iconic edifice. Some €165m had already been spent by September on securing the cathedral, which was structurally damaged during the fire. A second chunk of €262,6 in donations will go towards phase one of restoration work.
Jean-Louis Georgelin, the general who President Emmanuel Macron tasked with rebuilding Notre-Dame, has pledged it will be sufficiently restored to stage a Te Deum on April 16, 2024 – in time for the Olympic Games in Paris.
Initially Mr Macron’s then prime minister Edouard Philippe said he would launch an international competition to rebuild the destroyed roof and spire, potentially with a modern design “that bears the mark of our time”.
After widespread uproar over architectural flights of fancy, one which even included a swimming pool, the contest was scrapped and the spire, roof and medieval wooden beams are all to be rebuilt as faithfully as possible to the original designs.
The same cannot be said for the interior given current plans, seen by the Telegraph and two European media, including Fild.
In June, Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit said these would “bring the cathedral into the 21st century while preserving its own identity in the spirit of the Christian tradition”.
However, the plans presented by Father Gilles Drouin, the interior will look to the future, not the past.
Under the proposals, visitors will pass through the main entrance and be shepherded towards 14 themed chapels depicting Genesis, Abraham, Exodus and the Prophets but also the five continents. While Africa and Asia will have pride of place, Europe, the Americas and Oceania will either be less evident behind the apse or totally absent. The tour ends at a chapel dedicated to “reconciled creation”, namely environmentalism as set out in Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ encyclical.
Restore it as it was you clowns.
We don’t need architects/artists wanting to make their mark here. They can fuck off
Scamming goodwilling donors out of the better part of a billion dollars by claiming to rebuild it faithfully and then pulling a switcheroo like this is not very nice.
What’s with that trainwreck of a title?
I don’t have access to the article, so I don’t know if it has been mentioned, but it’s only a project. It will be submitted on December 9th. I strongly think that most of the “woke” propositions I’ve seen will be refused.
More woke bait from The Telegraph.
>**Those parts of the building that were damaged by fire will be restored to their former condition**, but under the new plans some areas that were less affected by the disaster will be dramatically changed
The restoration is faithful. The Catholic Church is updating some areas of the interior not damaged in the fire – as they’ve often done in the past.
These mentioned changes aren’t really “woke” when you think about it. Using lighting to convey emotion is just a standard architectural concept for builds like this. And why is it woke to project Bible verses in Mandarin? It seems the interior is being revamped in part to be more explicitly Christian and to spread Christian messages to international visitors. Nothing new, either – Notre-Dame already held international services before the fire. If anything, you’d think a church promoting Christianity to Chinese tourists against the wishes of the CCP and not simply being an old building for them to wander around in would be anti-woke.
Yes the title is not moderate but if you read the proposal is not wrong. Maybe focus on why some people with power want to turn a millennia old cathedral part of the history of Europe to something that as more in common to the art you can find in a favela and not on an title you don’t like.
EDIT: “It’s as if Disney were entering Notre-Dame,” said Maurice Culot, a prize-winning Paris-based architect, urbanist, theorist and critic who has seen the plans.
It’s not only the opimion of the article author but of someone in this area of expertise who lives in Paris.
Meh, I mean, adding new exhibits to a historical building isn’t that unheard of, or crazy. Certainly much better than rebuilding the spire with a ‘modern’ design like was proposed (and rejected) before, as it doesn’t affect the overall building. So the article is pretty inflammatory.
I do find the proposal pretty tasteless and poorly thought out though. What does Notre Dame have to do with Africa and Asia? Nobody goes to Notre Dame to learn about Christianity from an Asian lens. Likewise, who goes to Notre-Dame to learn about environmentalism?
If you’re going to have new exhibits, why not add something that’s relevant to the history of the cathedral, or something people actually want to see? Why not an exhibit about the fire and restoration? Or an expanded exhibit for the history of the cathedral?
Hell, if you want to have a “”woke”” (I hate that word) subtext to it, maybe an exhibit about the cathedral’s construction that emphasizes the communal aspect of it or something?
Not to mention that it would clash artistically with the rest of the restoration. Why are we rebuilding the medieval roof and 19th Century spire, while adding exhibits about environmentalism and Africa? It doesn’t even remotely mesh.
I don’t think anyone wants this, and it comes off more as artistic virtue signalling than any kind of thought out restoration. I would be surprised if it doesn’t end up getting rejected.
Post modernists aren’t happy with creating their own monstrosities and “art”. They have this inane need to also alter and destroy pre-existing properties whether they be material (for example cathedrals) or intellectual (books/movies)
It sounds terrible, but I don’t think I would describe it as woke.
I sincerely hope they make a huge glass roof top, that would be the prettiest panoramic view of Paris. Not too high, just about the right height, slightly above the skyline.
Notre-Dame Cathedral to be revamped to better fit the vapid vision of neoliberal multicultural secular humanism.