Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the Notre-Dame fire, and after years of reconstruction work, the landmark is getting ready to reopen to visitors later this year. Here is what you need to know if you want to visit.
Five years after being ravaged by fire, Notre-Dame Cathedral has returned to its former splendour months ahead of its planned reopening, participants in a recent visit to the monument said.The fire at the UNESCO-listed cathedral, which used to welcome 12 million visitors a year, shocked the world on April 15, 2019.
After a fire ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral five years ago, Hank Silver traveled to Paris to use his carpentry skills as a member of Carpenters Without Borders to help repair the famous structure. Silver joins NBC News’ Keir Simmons to demonstrate his craft.
The Vessel viewpoint, an 150-foot-tall beehive-like structure in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, first opened in 2019. Between that year and its closure in 2021, four people died by suicide at the site. Now, Related Companies, the developer behind the Vessel, has announced that the structure is scheduled to reopen in 2024 with a new floor-to-ceiling mesh installation. The viewpoint’s top floor will remain off limits as an added precaution. The Vessel’s most permanent closure began on July 29, 2021,...
Danes recount watching in horror as the historic Borsen went up in flames.
Faster. Higher. Stronger. Floatier? As times have changed, so, too, has the Olympic program. When Paris first hosted in 1900, croquet and tug-of-war were featured (that was croquet’s only Olympics appearance, while tug-of-war was featured five more times until the Games in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920). Contests of all kinds have come and gone and sometimes returned over the years — a trend that will continue thanks to the International Olympic Committee’s allowing host countries to nominate...
A massive fire engulfed the 400-year-old Stock Exchange building, or Børsen, in central Copenhagen on Tuesday morning, causing its iconic central spire to topple over.
Five years after the inferno at the Paris cathedral, a new exhibition shows the rescued art treasuresThere was a moment on 15 April 2019 as the flames consuming Notre Dame cathedral roared into the evening sky when it seemed all would be lost.Firefighters prevented the blaze from reaching the bell towers – whose collapse would have almost certainly brought down the facade – and from destroying the bells, the Grand Organ and the Parisian monument’s stained-glass rosette windows. Continue reading
TOPEKA (KSNT) — After weeks of being closed, a recycling center will reopen soon. Garick Topeka Biomass and Yard Materials Recycling Facility announced on its website that it will will reopen Thursday, April 25. This comes after a large mulch fire took place at the facility earlier this month. According to its website, only bulk []
Emergency services rushed to contain the fire and secure valuables at the Danish capital's iconic old stock exchange.
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