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In reply to the discussion: There are no trees large enough in all of France to rebuild Notre Dame. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)9. Interesting thought, but in the Middle Ages the only non-fruiting trees
people didn't burn to warm and shelter themselves were in protected preserves. The late Middle Ages were starting to improve in spite of a series of great calamities but were still bad, bad, baad times for badly degraded humanity in Europe. If they could build then, I'm sure we'll manage it somehow. We're also slightly better at metallurgy, cutting and moving stone, and creating derivative products now.
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There are no trees large enough in all of France to rebuild Notre Dame. [View all]
Cattledog
Apr 2019
OP
Modern materials must be used to reconstruct the Notre Dame Cathedral in the Gothic Style.
democratisphere
Apr 2019
#1
It would be a horrible idea to use original materials. Take the Frauenkirche as an example.
DetlefK
Apr 2019
#13
I loved this story when I first heard it. Still love it. We could learn a lot. Yesterday...
Hekate
Apr 2019
#37
If they go with engineered timbers they don't need to lop down a mess of four-hundred year old trees
Brother Buzz
Apr 2019
#56
Probaby true but they can use engineered wooden beams to replace large single beams.
honest.abe
Apr 2019
#18
If we remained a shell of the people and country we once were, we'd donate them.
hlthe2b
Apr 2019
#19
I was inspecting an old warehouse built before the state was cleared out by lumber barons
yaesu
Apr 2019
#22
I would most definitely choose wooden laminate beams over the trees at Versailles
pecosbob
Apr 2019
#43
The timbering was solely structural and was totally hidden behind the masonry ceilings
Brother Buzz
Apr 2019
#48
Engineering of construction materials has come a long way in the last 800 years.
aikoaiko
Apr 2019
#46