Tomas van Houtryve photographed the aftermath of the Notre Dame fire. Now he sees the cathedral in a new light after he was ...

Though it took 632 years to complete, this five-aisled basilica, reaching a staggering 157 meters high, is the ultimate ...

PARIS - Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens its doors on Saturday, five-and-a-half years after it was ravaged by a ...

This cloud of 1 billion points proved indispensable for the digital recreation of the cathedral’s interior and exterior. Tallon’s laser scans were the only truly accurate as-built measurements of ...

Notre-Dame, the Gothic cathedral in the heart of the French capital, was “in a very dire state. The flying buttresses were beginning to crumble.” This was two years before the great fire that ...

The 860-year-old building has a new spire and rib vaulting, flying buttresses and stone gargoyles are returned to their past ...

They have been reinstalled. The flying buttresses played an important role in preventing the cathedral’s collapse during the fire. Work to preserve their structural integrity is part of an ...

According to Bélaval, the flying buttresses of the choir, "which are extremely important in forming the silhouette of the cathedral", are “weakened ... They were already fragile before the fire ...