On 22/04/2019 07:18, Halmyre wrote:


In a similar vein, you can do a tour of Reims Cathedral roof space. Their solution was to rebuild it (it was destroyed in WW1) out of reinforced concrete beams but constructed as if they were timbers.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...echarpente.JPG

That's amazing! Sometimes the French do astonishingly sensible things.