Breyer finds hope, optimism in Notre Dame rebuilding effort on WTOP| His main job is to sit on the U. S. Supreme Court, but Justice Stephen Breyer also chairs the jury of the Pritzker Prize — the world’s top honor in architecture. Like so many people across the globe, Breyer watched the catastrophic…
His main job is to sit on the U. S. Supreme Court, but Justice Stephen Breyer also chairs the jury of the Pritzker Prize — the world’s top honor in architecture.
Like so many people across the globe, Breyer watched the catastrophic fire rip through the Notre Dame Cathedral on TV, in his chambers, an experience he describes as “horrific.”
“I thought, my God, look at those flames,” he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday, a day after the blaze caused extensive damage to one of the world’s most iconic and beloved structures. “Oh, what can I say? There aren’t words to capture that. There was a moment when it just seemed absolutely awful and irredeemable.
