[Texan4Life]

Here's what one of the final submissions will look like:

[Black Agnes]

Yup.

And there will be two of them. Or four.

There will be at least one very prominent crescent.

[silverleaf]

Snort...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Design the spire? Why not use the design of the spire that was there?

I get the feeling that the rebuilt Notre Dame is going resemble the job that was done to Soldier Field.

[Sicon]

Why would it be hard to rebuild it just like it was? Oh yeah, because the French are submissive weasels, and want to appease their muslim pals. They’ll most likely put up four minarets and a crescent, or some hideous “modern” style spire.

[Joe 6-pack]

They will get the guy who designed this abomination at the Louvre...

[rainee]

My guess is a refugee will win the “contest”
The French will never learn

[Reily]

The Catholic Church needs to step up to the plate pay & oversee the rebuilding of Notre Dame or some god-awful modern architectural, anti-Christian, anti-European (as well as anti-France) monstrosity will take its place. Norte Dame needs to be reconstructed as near as possible back to what it was. Nothing else is Norte Dame, every Frenchmen & Frenchwomen should know that! If France means anything to them this is what they will demand!

[butlerweave]

OMG ! Just clean it up and fix the roof

[dfwgator]

You pretty much captured what everyone here was thinking.

[Mathews]

A minaret or maybe a crescent moon wind vane?

[1Old Pro]

Did they figure out how the fire started?

[Sequoyah101]

Why? What is wrong with the one that burned?

This whole operation will be a nine-line-free-fall-cluster-fluck. Wait for it.

[Atticus]

There is an excellent documentary (may be hard to find) about the time a fire totally destroyed Dick Cavett’s historic beachfront house in Montauk, Long Island. After debating with his late wife how to rebuild the home, they decided to rebuild it exactly as it was to every last detail, including the French-made stained glass in the front door. They even had the floor boards sanded down to give them the same time-worn feel. That is what must be done at Notre Dame. That and some state of the art security and fire suppression apparatus.

[JoeFromSidney]

Regardless of the design, I'd like to see it rebuilt according to modern standards. Steel beams instead of timbers, fireproof roof, etc. Let's make it an example of 21-st century technology.

[Truthoverpower]

What’s fascinating is how in the world did these middle-age Masons and carpenters build that thing in the 1100s?

I’ve always been fascinated by the middle ages it’s incredible to imagine being alive at that time

There is no electricity no crane nothing except for handtools hammers and things like that

[HarleyD]

Or this....