Skill Shortage Could Hold Up Notre Dame Rebuild: UK Architect
Muhammad Irfan Published April 17, 2019 | 08:55 AM
London, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Apr, 2019 ) :One of the architects who helped restore Windsor Castle after a devastating fire said a shortage of craftsmen could hold up the reconstruction of Notre-Dame.
"The supply of craftsmen with the skill to work so much stone, so much timber, so much lead, so much glass for the windows is something which the industry in the whole of Europe may well be challenged to meet at the present moment," Francis Maude, director at the Donald Insall Associates architect firm, told AFP.
"There are other very large projects which are facing the same limitations," he said, giving the example of the Houses of Parliament where his firm is also working.
Maude's firm was called upon by the British royal family to help restore Windsor Castle following a fire in 1992 that also shocked the country.
The fire began in the Queen's Private Chapel when a curtain was ignited by a spotlight pressed up against it. It spread to the State Apartments, including St George's banqueting hall, and engulfed Brunswick Tower.
There were no casualties, also thanks to the quick reaction of the castle's own small fire brigade.
The restoration work began in 1995 and was completed in 1997, costing �36.5 million at the time.
As part of the renovation, a specially commissioned stained-glass window was installed in the medieval surrounding depicting a firefighter battling the blaze.
The castle's grandest rooms were restored to their former state while others were modernised, and the issue of how faithfully to stick to the original design is likely to be the source of "big discussion" when rebuilding the iconic Parisian cathedral.
"There will be some who think the only way we can restore Notre-Dame is to make it exactly the same as it was before," said Maude.
Alternatively, restorers could draw inspiration from the rebuilding of Reims Cathedral after World War One, when a fire-resistant steel roof was installed.
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