Notre Dame rebuilding plan gains detail, nuance. Drawing from 1856 of the Notre Dame restoration undertaken by Viollet Le Duc. One British architect, Ian Ritchie, suggested a new spire made from crystal, while another suggested a roof made entirely of glass. French prime minister Edouard Philippe was reported saying that the government was looking for a unique design "adapted to the techniques and the challenges of our era."

As France launches a competition for designs to rebuild the parts of Notre-Dame Cathedral destroyed by a huge fire, architects have already suggested some radical changes, The Times newspaper reports. On April 17, France announced their plans to host a competition to design a replacement spire for the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. A Dutch Company Has a Plan to Rebuild Notre Dame From the Ashes—Literally—Using 3-D Printing Two designers suggest that the charred remains of the cathedral can be reused for its restoration. By Antonio Pacheco. Notre Dame was nationalized in 1789 during the French Revolution, and remains the property of the French state. Since the fire devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral and the French prime minister announced a competition to replace its spire, a flurry of designers have offered alternative proposals. Their proposal intends to seize the intended restructuring as an opportunity to create a place where conservation, enrichment of an exceptional heritage and the challenges of society’s ecology and equal opportunities are all taken into account. This prompted many architects and designers to power up their creative minds and conjure … The law has created a new agency with vast and wide-ranging powers to be in charge of coordinating and managing the entire operation. They plan to add plants, trees and even an apiary on the main spire. Those plans are a nod to the beehives that have long been kept on Notre-Dame’s roof — the honey produced has traditionally been given to the poor. (The hives survived the fire.) Notre Dame reborn...as a GREENHOUSE: French architects propose replacing cathedral's damaged roof with glass and filling it with plants.

Image courtesy of Wikimedia, François de Guilhermy, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Aug 20, '19 11:00 AM EST. Studio NAB proposed to rebuild Notre Dame’s roof as a big public greenhouse. Things have got heated between Jean-Louis Georgelin, the French President's special representative for the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral, and chief architect Philippe Villeneuve. Notre Dame cathedral in Paris looks like it did just before the flames appeared: a construction site. 0. Rebuilding plans have begun and tourists visit.