The cathedral at Notre Dame has reopened, over five years after it caught fire in April of 2019. In The New York Times interactive piece “A Miracle: Notre-Dame’s Astonishing Rebirth From the Ashes,” architecture critic Michael Kimmelman and graphic artist Mika Gröndahl explore the remarkable work that has gone into Notre-Dame’s restoration. They highlight exquisite details and features of the reconstruction that are truly awesome to behold: the care taken, for example, to select individual oak trees to match and replace each beam of the roof that was lost in the fire.
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