Ian Ritchie, a modern architect most famous for the so-called Spire of Dublin — a metal spike erected in the Irish capital — is mulling a proposal along similar lines, which he describes as “a refracting, super-slender reflecting crystal to heaven” or a “beautiful contemporary tracery of glass crystals and stainless steel” — i.e. a featureless glass and steel spire.
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- Here Come the Architects: Modernists Want Glass Roof, Steel Spire, or Minaret for Notre Dame, Saturday, April 20, 2019 - 12:00