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Khaldun
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on: April 15, 2019, 01:50:39 PM

So awful and sad. Looks like most of the artwork and relics inside were saved. Coverage makes it sound like there's still a chance that the entire north tower will collapse completely.
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Reply #1 on: April 15, 2019, 03:19:12 PM

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Reply #2 on: April 15, 2019, 03:38:39 PM

Latest story is that the towers have been saved.  The upper rose windows melted; no confirmation on the lower ones but I wouldn't hold out much hope.

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Reply #3 on: April 15, 2019, 03:50:16 PM

The altar from the inside:



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Reply #4 on: April 15, 2019, 04:07:35 PM

Yeah.

The complicated thing that most historians know is that most structures people think are really really old are 19th Century re-creations of structures that burned. Or sometimes mid-20th Century re-creations. Notre Dame had some newer things on it (the spire) but some of what was in there was genuinely old, old, old. Just hard to watch.
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Reply #5 on: April 15, 2019, 04:32:57 PM

We were just there in 2016 and this was hard to watch on TV.  Genuinely surprised at how good it looks in the picture.  Flames were huge at the peak of the fire.
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Reply #6 on: April 15, 2019, 08:39:59 PM

Most of the experts I saw on CNN tonight were all very optimistic based on that photograph calapine posted.

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Reply #7 on: April 16, 2019, 03:13:38 AM



Wow.  Heartbreak Heartbreak

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Reply #8 on: April 16, 2019, 07:09:20 AM

Some sort of weird forced perspective there?
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Reply #9 on: April 16, 2019, 07:18:14 AM

I guess. Also Notre Dame is only 1/4 of the height of Eiffel Tower. 69 vs 300 metre.

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Reply #10 on: April 16, 2019, 08:04:59 AM

How to tell if your Facebook friends wildly overreact when presented with little initial information or perspective.

I mean, this event sucks for sure.

But holy shit, man.
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Reply #11 on: April 16, 2019, 08:45:10 AM



The sad thing is, even though they are saying the stone of the building will remain what actually stands will have to be gutted. Smoke damage will be everywhere, and they will have to clean out everything to get rid of the smell. If they rebuild it, it just wont be the same. They will have to make compromises, the low build contractors will cut corners, the new wood just won't have the smell of the centuries old wood.

I've never been there, but its gone. Sad to think about.

I am reminded thogh of a Story. My first girlfriend was German, and when I was over we visited Cologne Cathedral. This massive pile of rock in the Middle of Cologne. And when I was looking at it I was reminded of the fact you ca se the tracts of WW2 Allied bombers through the city, every street has new constuction and old buildings.

So I said out loud "how did they MISS this thing?"

She grinned at me and said "They didn't. They had guys on the roof kicking off the bombs!"
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Reply #12 on: April 16, 2019, 09:59:50 AM

Terrible but could have been even worse.

And even buildings as old as these change. As mentioned the roof that burned down is "only" 200 years old. It was also damaged during the French revolution. Theseus cathedral.

BTW, one can rebuild anything.

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Edit: Funny to think that in 100 years the great fire of 2019 will just be another item in the long history of Notre Dame.

Edit2: Also SirT your gf's story sounded like bullshit but wikipedia says they were indeed staff postitoned in and on(!) the cathedral ready to put out fires caused by fire bombs. Huh.
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Reply #13 on: April 16, 2019, 10:19:16 AM

I'm with Calapine on this one. I am glad that no one was killed (as far as I know) and most of the art was saved, but old buildings burn and get rebuilt. And I do think the French will spare no expense or expertise to make sure it is rebuilt right.

And if they had lost the relics, I am sure a quick trip down to the salvage store would find plenty of old wood and nails that would be just as authentic as the True Cross pieces they have there....

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Reply #14 on: April 16, 2019, 10:37:18 AM

Ya, We used to joke when I was training to be a Priest that there are enough pieces of the True Cross to build a fairly good sized house  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

But ya, those Dresden pictures are amazing. Thanks for posting them Calapine.

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Reply #15 on: April 16, 2019, 11:56:23 AM

Forgot to mention the true tards who are saying it's as bad as 9/11.

They can truly go fuck themselves in their perspective-less nethers.

There is a cool album of vintage gargoyle and chimera pics making the FB rounds, at least.
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Reply #16 on: April 16, 2019, 12:21:06 PM

Is the Church going to be able to find the money to rebuild? Is there a Gofundme?

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Reply #17 on: April 16, 2019, 12:41:27 PM

Is the Church going to be able to find the money to rebuild? Is there a Gofundme?

Apparently, the Roman Catholic church doesn't own any of the buildings in France.  Notre Dame is owned by the French Ministry of Culture so the government will be doing the rebuilding.  Wiki info.

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Reply #18 on: April 16, 2019, 12:57:43 PM

There’s been several hundred million pledged already from some very wealthy sources.  As to how much it will take, who knows yet.  I heard the renovations it already needed before the fire were going to cost 180 million (not sure dollars or euros)

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Reply #19 on: April 16, 2019, 12:58:59 PM

According to US Today 700 million has been pledged.
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Reply #20 on: April 16, 2019, 01:07:50 PM



Bad, but could have been worse.

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Reply #21 on: April 16, 2019, 01:25:04 PM

TBH it's pretty badass that the stone ceilings held up like they were supposed to.  Kudos to those medieval engineers.   DRILLING AND MANLINESS

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Also here's food for thought: it's not possible to replace the wooden beams because France literally does not have forests that old any more (they cut them all down).  If they'd replanted (and preserved) the forest they harvested to build Notre Dame, it would have regrown twice over by now.
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Reply #22 on: April 16, 2019, 03:28:13 PM

It really is not gone.

I was so sad seeing the images, but...

So many buildings people *think* are old and unchanged are reconstructions of buildings that burned. Most of the castles you see in Japan are Meiji-era rebuildings of old burned castles. Fire is the fate of so many human structures. The ones that don't burn fall down instead--sometimes suddenly, sometimes gradually.

Any old building is like the ship of Theseus--parts of it have been replaced over time to the point that it's really not the old building as it was. Old paintings, old artifacts--nothing we build lasts nearly as long as we think it does.

Notre Dame is an expecially good example--it was almost a ruin before Hugo wrote Hunchback. The romantic Notre Dame we love so much is as much a 19th Century building as a 13th Century one.

But we--or at least I--do love it. Did and do. I will be glad to have it back; I was heart-broken to see it fallen so low.
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Reply #23 on: April 16, 2019, 04:28:33 PM

It’s an oddly bittersweet sort of feeling.  One can rebuild, but no matter how faithful the restoration, it will inevitably have its variances due to materials, artisanry, what have you.  So how much do we try?

Given that no recreation can ever be quite the same as the original, the question in my mind at such times is how much of the old does one recreate out of faithfulness, and how much is given over to acknowledging the loss and giving the architects and artists a chance to speak to their own feelings and creativity about the history and purpose of the space?  You can’t quite get the past back but you can embrace it at let it guide you forward.

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Reply #24 on: April 16, 2019, 06:18:53 PM

Shit like this is why I really appreciate things like kintsugi, which actually acknowledge the lifespan of an object, and that the story of what's happened to it is often at least as important as how it was originally made, if not more so. The whole notion of human edifice as this immobile, unchanging thing in the western world in defiance of all logic gets us things like brexit. Though, I guess the eastern acknowledgement of chaos and the like gets us tentacle porn and subway groping. It's always a trade-off, I suppose.

Lacking any religious impulse whatsoever, I find the desire to rebuild it at all instead of clearing it out and shitting down a new glass pyramid instead to be reassuring. Kind of a dick-wave in the face of time.

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Reply #25 on: April 16, 2019, 06:24:08 PM

Kind of a dick-wave in the face of time.

This neatly sums up my general impulse to preserve, restore, and even rebuild old things.

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Reply #26 on: April 16, 2019, 06:50:50 PM

I just hate being naive about preservation.

Colonial Williamsburg in the US is a good example of that for me. Tons of well-meaning white people in the 1970s and 1980s went there thinking: this is the way it was, this is the past, these are the old buildings. Read the fine print: the buildings are at least partially reconstructions. There's no slavery here (there wasn't until the late 1980s/early 1990s, when they acknowledge that this was giving people the wrong idea that this was a bunch of yeoman white people doing crafts). There's no shit from animals running in the streets. There's fucking lawns, something that didn't show up until so much later. Etc.

But places that mean something mean something. I kind of miss old Times Square, even, despite it being dirty, unpleasant and dangerous, because it was also real and unplanned.
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Reply #27 on: April 16, 2019, 07:02:31 PM

Our past is at least always part fiction, what we tell ourselves that we’re at least sort of comfortable with (regardless of its truth)

I don’t know that there’s a way to change that without becoming post-human

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Reply #28 on: April 16, 2019, 07:07:04 PM

The vaulted ceiling not totally collapsing is definitely a good sign.

And yeah, there probably isn't a cathedral in Europe (including Notre Dame) that hasn't had to do extensive rebuilds due to fire or war or whatever. Hell the spire that collapsed was less than 200 years old.

The (likely) reason this fire even started was because they were doing renovation/restoration work.


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Reply #29 on: April 16, 2019, 07:16:21 PM

Oh shit, there’s more than one crazy-ass motherfucker on my Facebook who’s convinced it was some Islamic terrorist plot.  Vs. the number of times I’ve fucked up something that hasn’t burned down an 800-year old building (of which there aren’t any in Idaho)

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Reply #30 on: April 16, 2019, 09:36:50 PM

The fact that most of the vaulted ceilings, as well as the stained glass windows, survived is pretty incredible.

There will easily be more than 1 billion dollars donated towards rebuilding - it will be interesting to see what new directions are taken during reconstruction. Personally, I hope they leave as much cosmetic fire damage as possible, and also add some completely modern touches. Glass or otherwise transparent roofs or ceilings could be interesting, to allow visitors to see the guts of the place. It would also let more light in (which would need to be accounted for vis-a-vis protecting artifacts).

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Reply #31 on: April 16, 2019, 11:17:20 PM



Wow.  Heartbreak Heartbreak

This is a super fake photo. The Tour Eiffel is nowhere near that close to Notre Dame. You can see the tower from the Ile de la Cité (because you can see it from pretty much everywhere in Paris) but it doesn't loom in that way and the towers on the front of the cathedral are almost directly facing it.


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Reply #32 on: April 17, 2019, 07:03:22 AM

There's some angles you can shoot with a big telephoto lens that would make the Eiffel loom a bit larger over Notre Dame, but yeah, nothing like that--it's very fake. (It's not just the size of the Eiffel, it's what seems to be at its feet, and for that matter everything else in the frame.)
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Reply #33 on: April 17, 2019, 07:05:54 AM

My favorite thus far:

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Reply #34 on: April 17, 2019, 09:27:22 AM

Turns out that, four years ago, an Art historian used around a billion laser pointers to create a digital model of Notre Dame. So they have pretty accurate measurements to recreate the building if they choose to go that route. Really impressive.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/world/andrew-tallon-notre-dame-laser-scan-trnd/index.html

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