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Very deep in the hustle of city noises, one need a space to relive, express and eventually walk the acceptance of loss. A relatively empty pocket of land was allotted for DA STUDIO’s Vaikuntha Mahaprasthanam Hindu crematorium in Hyderabad, India
The client with local Municipal Corporation undertook the task of accomplishing this state of the art crematorium from a neglected crematory. DA STUDIO’s initiative was to modernize it so that it can accommodate the Hindu cremation rituals, culturally and contextually at the Mahaprasthanam crematorium in Hyderabad, India
Visitors to Haverstock’s Guildford Crematorium building are greeted from the car park by an unprepossessing brick and concrete wall. After this underwhelming start, it gets better and better
Designed by ZENI arkitekter a/s the Aabenraa Crematorium, Denmark, has a room for the living. Here the relatives can give their loved ones a last goodbye, and watch the caskets be put into the ovens
Lea Fields Crematorium, Gainsborough building design by Haverstock architects in Lincolnshire, eastern England: located in parkland the architecture has rigorous control of materiality and detail
John Lum Architecture Designed the New Olivet Funeral & Cremation Services Building as a Celebration of Life in Colma, SF. Bathed in natural light, a wall of windows overlooks the zen-like garden
This project was designed by Carme Pinós Desplat and responds to their desire to integrate the new building in the cemetery grounds without distorting the great poetics these emanate.
Architects: Hindley & Co. During the day, the onlooker’s first glimpse of the vertical cemetery is of a low lying, glowing object which appears to hover just above the surface of the city streets, something like an iceberg of which only the tip is visible.
Oostende Crematorium: Belgian funerary project design by Alvarez Ouburg Architects – building development, Belgian architecture, architect, images
Crematorium Uitzicht, Kortrijk, Belgium design by SumProject + Souto Moura Arquitectos – building development, Belgian architecture images
Asymptote Architecture is pleased to announce winning a 2013 Progressive Architecture Award for the Beukenhof Auditorium and Crematorium.
Planning a funeral building means designing an item which has a strong symbolic value. It means dealing not only with a specific area where it will be built, but especially with the spiritual values which belong to a community.
Floating Cemetery, Hong Kong building proposal design by BREAD studio – published in Hong Kong Institute of Architects Journal: info + images
“a tomb is a prison, but also a “monumentum”; that is, an object which keeps the “memory” or the recollection of an absent person alive… and only monuments are architecture…