Bas Smets    France   The team headed by Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets – and including GRAU, Neufville Gayet architectes, Ingérop, and Franck Boutté Consultants – has won the competition to transform the public spaces around Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, ravaged

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The cathedral, “the soul of France” finally resurrected following a meticulous five-year, €700m restoration. “The area around Notre Dame has changed so much throughout history,” says Bas Smets, the Belgian landscape architect who won an open competit

On Sunday, 8 December, Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens its doors to the public, more than five years after the fire that devastated it on 15 April 2019. The inaugural week, from the 8th to the 15th, will be devoted to celebrating the reopening and payin

Notre-Dame on fire offers a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that took place on April 15, 2019, when the cathedral suffered the biggest blaze in its history. The film retraces how heroic men and women put their lives on the line to acco

youtube.com   The Parisian cathedral, devastated by fire a year ago, opened its doors for a small ceremony held amid the coronavirus lockdown...

The New York Times   A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything. The security employee monitoring the smoke alarm panel at Notre-Dame cathedral was just three days on the job when the red w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   At dusk on Monday, April 15th, just in time for the evening news, the world was treated to the horrendous spectacle of uncontrollable flames licking the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The fire spread from a scaffold that had been installed si

Dominique Perrault   Notre-Dame, the heart of the heart of Paris, treasure of the Île de la Cité, has just suffered one of the most trying moments in its long history. Across all lands and cultures of the world, this drama leaves us speechless, touching the hearts and ar

Notre-Dame de Paris on fire

The New York Times   Aurelien Breeden   Elian Peltier   Liz Alderman   Richard Pérez-Peña   Exactly how the fire broke out is now the subject of an intensive investigation by the French authorities, who are so far treating the disaster as an accident. Much remains to be learned. But already it is emerging that Notre-Dame, irreplaceable as i