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> to do something different Entirely just to do something different? Or for any actual reason? I mean things like: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/fran
by wqaatwt 2y ago
> to do something different
Entirely just to do something different? Or for any actual reason?
I mean things like:
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/france-notre-dame-green-scli-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/france-notre-dame-gree...
are just outright plain ugly due to many reasons and this is one of the nicer looking alternative proposals that I could find.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoIf there's one reason the French can't compete in the modern economy its because they are so painfully conservative in their culture. Elon Musk might be a cook with reactionary tendencies but he is a far more imaginary cook than anything the French can come up with. Did it really all end in 1848?
- wqaatwt 2y agoWhat ended in 1848? I don’t really get the relationship between these two unrelated things, you’re free to use whatever architectural style you want when building new houses and office buildings in France as far as I can tell. By that standard other Europeans are even more conservative.. Germans rebuilt the Dresden Cathedral and palaces despite them being a complete ruin for decades. The Polish rebuilt Warsaw, Gdansk and I assume other cities almost entirely from scratch pretty much as replicas of their pre-war state. What does that say about them?
- kmlx 2y agothey cancelled the design competition and went with an identical reconstruction: https://www.thelocal.fr/20200710/macron-gives-blessing-to-recreate-notre-dames-gothic-spire https://www.thelocal.fr/20200710/macron-gives-blessing-to-re... part of the reason was to have it ready for the olympics since a design competition would take a long time.