The walls, bell towers and the most famous circular stained-glass windows at France's Notre Dame remain intact. April 16, 2019.
"The international competition will allow us to ask the question of whether we should even recreate the spire as it was conceived by Viollet-le-Duc," Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said. "From the moment we lose the war of the bell towers, we lose the cathedral, because it's a chain-reaction collapse."
Matos told reporters that part of the triangular structure above the central rose window is to be taken down "to limit the movement" of the stone. Smoke billows near scaffolding as fire engulfs the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. April 15, 2019. Nearly $1 billion in donations have poured in for the vast restoration of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral — but a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that it will be completed within five years was facing accusations of being wildly off track.
France announces an international architecture competition to redesign a spire for Notre Dame, after it collapsed in Monday's blaze
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