A replica of Truss No. 6 from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris will be raised on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 24 on the ...

City Attorney Andy Segovia said officials “remain optimistic that the successful implementation of the Alamo plan will ...

Gasps were heard around the world on April 15th, 2019, when Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a jewel of gothic art perhaps best ...

Notre Dame's original roof was a meticulously crafted network of massive oak beams, earning it the name "the forest." To rebuild this iconic structure, a national call went out, uniting ...

On Saturday night, with a ritual knocking, the Archbishop of Paris marked the reopening of Notre Dame just five years ... such a big roof with oak and lead? We were not sure workers would be ...

The bells of Notre ... Dame for more than two decades, beginning in 1844. Viollet-le-Duc is largely responsible for the modern ethic of restoration as returning a historic building to its original ...

Image Tarp covered parts of the roof three ... using original 19th-century architectural plans and a trove of archaeological and digital data. Walking around forests, “Notre-Dame was on ...

For reference, the lead on the roof would have started melting ... restore the damaged walls and vaults. The original limestone used to build Notre-Dame was extracted from underground quarries ...

just like the beams that held up the original roof. Harvested in France’s west, and fashioned into towering frames in the country’s northeast, the oaks of Notre Dame’s newly soaring roof ...

"The roof frame is dating from medieval times ... out of iron and steel in the traditional way to resemble what Notre Dame's original carpenters would have used nine centuries ago.

Working with hand axes to fashion hundreds of tons of oak beams for the framework of Notre Dame's new roof has ... craftsmanship of the cathedral's original builders and to ensure that the ...

Working with hand axes to fashion hundreds of tons of oak beams for the framework of Notre Dame’s new roof has ... craftsmanship of the cathedral’s original builders and to ensure that ...