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The Fire
The Fire of Windsor Castle took place on 20 November 1992 – ironically the 45th wedding anniversary of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. During work on some of the State Rooms in the castle, a fire broke out in the north-east part of the Castle and rapidly spread to engulf many rooms. Fortunately most treasures and works of art had been removed temporarily and so few items were lost, although over 100 rooms in the Castle were badly damaged or destroyed. The fire took 250 firefighters some 15 hours to extinguish. The Castle was renovated, the aim being to restore the damaged rooms to their former glory using authentic materials and craftsmanship, and was re-opened in 1997 after five years of work. The cost of the renovation was £37 million.A further possibility of an architect who might be able to rebuild Longford Cathedral in the Cassical idiom is Craig Hamilton:
http://www.craighamiltonarchitects.com/docs2/projects/sacred/chapel/index.html
Two further architects capable of undertaking a reubilding of Longford cathedral:
Aleksey Denisov’s and Zurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli’s
And here is Aleksey Denisov’s and Zurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli’s rebuilding of the Cathedral begun in 1990 and completed in 2000:
The Cathedral of Christ Our Saviour, Moscow
Here we have a picture of its brutal totalitarian demolition in 1931:
Piazza San Marco
Praxiteles doe not think that the needle would look quite so well in Piazza San Marco had it been installed there after 1902.
The campanile of San Marco in Venice following its collapsed in July 1902:
Filippo Grimani, when laying the foundation stone of the new tower St Mark’s day in 1903 continually repeated the famouse expression: «dov’era e com’era» (ehere it was and as it was).
The new tower was inaurgurated on St Mark’s day 1912.
