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Notre Dame Cathedral Design Competition
Location: Paris
Background: Early 2019, the Notre Dame Cathedral lost its iconic roof and Viollet-le-Duc's spire by fire. The People's Design Competition challenged design entries from around the world on the future of this landmark cathedral.
Design Solution: The design includes keeping the original form of roof and ceiling similar to the old, but introducing “Hope” in symbols of light and gold held within the new spire. The rebuilding of the old roof and ceiling are decorously respecting and recognising our past—the people, beliefs, and struggles; while the new “Hope” of light and gold symbolises our present and future.
The exterior of the Cathedral shows the descending Hope in a form of a new golden sphere placed inside the silhouette spire of our past. The new spire, made of glass and metal, is like heaven opening up and giving us Hope, as we all need –to live daily in this world and face our struggles.
...we are surrounded with
Many viewpoints and opinions,
Many never-ending struggles and pain,
Many opponents and challenges of life.
Many sickness and chronic illness,
Many misunderstandings and hurdles of life.
Only by looking up into this True Hope, can we rightly, with joy and peace in the midst of our pain and pressures of life, be able to sing, “My Hope is built on nothing less…”
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