SOME ARCHITECTS have informally submitted ideas for a new spire to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The New York Times reports:

Mr. [Stephen] Barrett said “the most interesting” designs he had seen so far were those that involved opening up the roof and creating a new public space. Those included turning the structure into some kind of garden with trees, echoing the lattice of ancient timber beams that used to make up the cathedral’s attic and that were known as “the Forest.”

“That process of democratizing space is something we like and have done before,” Mr. Barrett said, though he speculated that the weight of trees could be too much for the cathedral.

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