📋 Tender Overview
Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced at her press conference at the beginning of the week that out of the four architectural offices that reached the final round of the public procurement tender the jury appointed by the municipality together with the Paris church district and the state institution responsible for Notre-Dame entrusted the office of the Belgian Bas Smets with the transformation of the area around the cathedral.Based on the plans long shady walkways surrounded by trees will be created along Notre-Dame where visitors will be able to view the building in pleasant conditions even in the heat. The currently concreted square in front of the church will be a grassy area surrounded by trees.Thanks to everything the facade and glass windows will stand out more from the environment. In the area behind the church where bushes and cordons currently surround the cathedral in the direction of the Sejna there will be a grassy playground from which you will be able to see the buttresses and glass windows of the Gothic building better than before. One of the goals of the transformation is to increase the green surfaces by creating microclimates around the church to prevent climate change and increasingly frequent heatwaves. Wet areas are also created during the park to cool the visitors.The rainwater is led from the roof of the cathedral to the basement of the church from where it is evaporated on the grassy slopes into the park so that the temperature on the surface can drop by 10 degrees Celsius.
