chartres

It talks about inscribing an equilateral triangle on Chartres cathedral to draw a diagram of a vulva.

Designing Chartres is thrilling; building it with pebbles and tin-foil (all current programming languages) is heart-breaking.

Notre Dame is one of the first examples, and was built quickly enough to have a consistent architecture (also Chartres and Amiens).

But people will not possibly know that there is Chartres nearby.

I asked a tour guide at Chartres about the why the floor was so rough and the walls so perfectly aligned.

You can see a contrast in pictures of the Chartres restoration.

I've visited Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, and Chartres and now Beauvais is on my bucket list!

Quoting a few of my favorite bits: >Mark began by taking a vertical slice of, say, Chartres and replicating it in a special kind of plastic.

At [1] you can see a picture of the Chartres restoration, with the nave complete but the transepts still the old color, which is much darker.

Or presumably, building Chartres Cathedral?

Inhaling sulfur dioxide gas causes victims to choke as their internal soft tissue swells – the gas reacts with the moisture in lungs and produces sulfurous acid.[20] The local death rate in Chartres was up by 5% during August and September, with more than 40 dead.

> and there are examples from around the world of buildings that have lasted for many hundreds or even thousands of years while remaining in use - The Pantheon, Aula Palatina, Brihadeeswarar Temple, Verona Area, Chartres Cathedral are a few examples.

Imagine news headlines of "Chartres Cathedral collapsed again today." And then imagine a response of, "Well, that's because it's hard to build." What Dr.

“When alternatives exist, why choose lead and risk human health?” This was the case for the Chartres cathedral, destroyed by a fire in 1836.

"We stand on the shoulders of giants" -- Chartres This is partly a different way of expressing your (b), but I prefer this framing.

(The Chartres restoration gets a lot of hate from people decrying painting over the beautiful "raw stone", but a) the cathedrals were originally painted, and b) the actual stone was hidden under centuries of grime, including from an oil furnace installed in the 1960s, which the restorers painstakingly scraped off.

Chartres, one of the most notable french cathedrals now has a metallic structure to bear its roof).

The premier work of man perhaps in the whole Western world, and it’s without a signature: Chartres.

We marvel at our pyramids but dream of the arch, of Chartres.