Their efforts caught the eye of Notre Dame’s lead architect, Phillippe Villeneuve, who invited some of the Americans to come work on the cathedral. DuBois specializes in timber framing — a ...

Paris was abuzz with excitement after the beloved Notre Dame Cathedral reopened after ... who worked on rebuilding the cathedral's timber roof, said the fire had a surprising effect on him and ...

Some six years after a devastating fire, work is nearing completion at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris ... are taken from the round tree to a squared timber - all by hand, all with axes.

On April 15, 2019, the world watched in transfixed horror as a fire ravaged the famed Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris ... were rebuilt with new hand-hewed timber trusses fixed in place by ...

Five years after a devastating fire gutted a world icon, Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral is just days away ... spire fashioned from 500 tons of timber and coated with 250 tons of lead.

PARIS -- With the summer Olympic games just days away, the millions of people expected to visit Paris will see Notre Dame Cathedral begin ... gone and tiles cover the timber, a sign of hope ...

Notre-Dame had a “forest” in its roof. Before the fire, the cathedral contained one of the oldest surviving wood-timber frames in Paris, involving around 52 acres of trees that were cut down ...

Five years after Notre Dame, the historic ... During the inferno, the cathedral's 18th-century spire collapsed, the roof—constructed largely of lead-covered timber—was destroyed, and sections ...

Back in 2019, flames engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral’s medieval roof ... flames rip through Notre Dame’s elegant roof causing its timber spire to crumble. “But it was also incredible to ...

(photo: Shutterstock) Solène Tadié World December 5, 2024 Notre-Dame de Paris is about to open its ... terrible fire that ravaged its roof, roof frame and spire, causing shock throughout the ...

Jackson DuBois, a 49-year-old from Cooperstown, NY, spent three months in France last year working to rebuild the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral ... specializes in timber framing — a ...