For most of the last year, the Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets could be found walking purposefully around the Île de la Cité in central Paris staring at and thinking about Notre Dame Cathedral. Bas Smets at Notre Dame. Photograph: © Studio Alma pour le Groupement BBSSmets says his relationship with Notre Dame goes back 40 years. About 12 million tourists visited Notre Dame every year before the fire, posing a challenge to the landscape architect, who says he took a climate-centred approach to the project. “By redesigning the area around it we are putting Notre Dame back at the heart of the whole city.”

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2022 02:59 UTC