Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey
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
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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…
Designs for a new crematorium in Dewsbury by Aedas have gained planning approval. The £2.6m project has been commissioned by Kirklees Metropolitan Council Bereavement Services and will replace the existing 1960s Dewsbury Moor Crematorium.
The principal materials used were exposed reinforced concrete for the walls and oak wood for the ornamentation of the entrance facade and the interior of the prayer space
The Stockholm Cemetries Administration has decided to select five architecture offices/teams for the invited architecture competition for a new crematorium the Woodland Crematorium II at the Woodland Cemetery.