Roger Scruton recently wrote about where he suspects the plans for the repair will go: > It would be wrong to assume that a gang of modernists set fire to Notr

Roger Scruton recently wrote about where he suspects the plans for the repair will go: > It would be wrong to assume that a gang of modernists set fire to Notre Dame – it could perhaps have been an accident. But there was no better way to advance the great project, shared by all forward-looking architects from Le Corbusier to Richard Rogers, of razing Paris to the ground and rebuilding it in concrete, steel and glass. An international competition of the kind proposed by President Macron will in all probability result in a replica of Norman Foster’s Sage Gateshead, expectorated onto the walls of the cathedral, to cling trembling above them like a gob of shiny snot.