Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, which was nearly totally lost to fire in April 2019, will be rebuilt as it was, the French government says, defying the calls of modernist architects to seize the opportunity to give the medieval masterpiece a glass and steel overhaul.
(AFP) — Thousands of residents in several high-rise apartments in Melbourne went into lockdown for at least five days Saturday, as officials struggle to control a virus outbreak in Australia’s second-biggest city.
President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order to mandate that federal buildings are updated and constructed in a “classical architectural style” that resembles the United States’ most beloved monuments.
Modern architects have begun circling the charred remains of Notre Dame, proposing that it should not be faithfully restored, but rebuilt with “contemporary” features such as a glass roof, steel spire, or even a minaret.
Britain’s pre-eminent conservative philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, has come out fighting in response to a left-wing campaign to drive him from public life.
