Notre Dame Cathedral

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(04-16-2019, 08:54 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I don't know about that. We're more advanced technologically than they were in the 12th century. At the absolute worst, craftsmen should be able to recreate what was lost.

I think the reason you don't see buildings like the Cathedral of Notre Dame built anymore is because of the cost of beauty and art (which is harder to justify when everything is being optimized for profit in the modern age of architecture). 

If you gave an architect a budget for artistic vision, I see no reason why they'd not be able to come up with something as beautiful today.

Great point, person I'm communicating with digitally; We are more technologically advanced than we were in the 12th century.

There are trades and skillsets which have all but died off and we literally cannot build structures with the same artistry.  Take a look at the detail in this small section of the grand place in Brussels.  We no longer have the tradesmen capable of creating sculptures like this.  Obviously technology could aide in an attempt to replicate it stylistically, but introducing robotics would make it a poor facsimile in my opinion.