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  • RCA students develop underwater urns that double as oyster reefs

    Graduates from London's Royal College of Art have developed a way to form artificial reefs called Resting Reefs from cremated ashes, in a bid to provide a "meaningful funeral service" that regenerates endangered ecosystems. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 29 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • John Booth designs "monumental and bold" flower-shaped cremation urns

    Ceramic designer John Booth has created five contemporary stoneware cremation urns decorated with joyful colours and flowers for death specialist Farewill. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 16 April 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Fletcher Studio embeds cemetery alternative into Californian forest

    Landscape architect Fletcher Studio has created a memorial forest in California as an alternative to standard cemeteries with an entrance pavilion designed in collaboration with OpenScope Studio. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 18 February 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Life Support is a digital tool to help users cope with death

    Creative consultancy The Liminal Space has designed Life Support, a mobile-first website designed to help people deal with death using their smartphones. More

    Jane Englefield | 18 February 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Loenen Pavilion offers space to rest and reflect in Dutch war cemetery

    Kaan Architecten has built a pavilion to commemorate Dutch victims of the second world war, with thickset walls that strategically frame views of the trees and sky. More

    Amy Frearson | 12 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Shape Architecture tops non-denominational centre for remembrance with angular tower

    Vancouver-based Shape Architecture has unveiled the charred-wood South Haven Centre for Remembrance within a municipal cemetery on the outskirts of the city of Edmonton, Canada. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 28 September 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Bob Hendrikx designs "living coffin" from mushroom mycelium

    TU Delft researcher Bob Hendrikx has created Living Cocoon, a coffin made from mycelium that helps bodies decompose faster while improving the surrounding soil. More

    Natashah Hitti | 16 September 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Miró Rivera Architects imagines floating city of the dead in response to coronavirus

    Yarauvi is a conceptual nondenominational burial place, re-released by Miró Rivera Architects as founder Juan Miró mourned the death of his tutor, professor Michael Sorkin, from coronavirus. More

    India Block | 16 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Mourning Jewellery by Aeternum

    Aeternum's range of Mourning jewellery is designed to offer people who are grieving a death "something to hold in times of sorrow". More

    Dezeen staff | 6 June 2020
  • Cardboard hospital beds that double as coffins developed as "worthy solution" to coronavirus crisis

    A Colombian company has created a flatpack hospital bed made of cardboard that can be transformed into a coffin as healthcare services are overwhelmed by coronavirus victims. More

    India Block | 1 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Microscape uses stone-filled cages to update Italian cemetery

    Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. More

    India Block | 30 April 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Common Accounts designs an eco-friendly funeral for the digital age

    Design studio Common Accounts imagines the funeral of the future, where liquefied bodies are used to fertilise plants and flowers, and social media accounts generate a virtual afterlife. More

    Amy Frearson | 29 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Olson Kundig unveils Recompose Seattle facility for composting human bodies

    American firm Olson Kundig Architects has revealed plans for an after-death facility in Seattle where human bodies will be composted and turned into soil. More

    Bridget Cogley | 20 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Exit Here funeral parlour is designed to have "the eclectic feel of home"

    Hospitality entrepreneur Oliver Peyton has teamed up with Transit Studio to create a design-focused funeral parlour in west London, which aims to make clients more comfortable with the concept of death. More

    Natasha Levy | 30 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • ArchiWorkshop holds funeral for Seoul house by wrapping it in gauze

    This installation by South Korean studio ArchiWorkshop involved wrapping the interior of an abandoned house in Seoul in a layer of gauzy fabric to evoke a shamanistic death ritual. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 10 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Moying Huang conceives eco-crematorium within disused London power station

    Royal College of Art graduate Moying Huang has designed an ecologically friendly crematorium that would use liquid cremation to eliminate emissions from traditional incineration processes. More

    Semi Han | 10 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Yeyang Liao creates chair that transforms into a coffin

    Central Saint Martins graduate Yeyang Liao has created Coffin chair, an item of furniture that the owner can be cremated in after they die. More

    Augusta Pownall | 10 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Fashion graduate Jingle Yu designs queer funeral collection so you can "die fabulously"

    Parsons School of Design graduate Jingle Yu has designed a collection of funeral wear for the deceased, which aims to tackle the idea that "dead people should be silent and unfashionable". More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 23 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Philip Nitschke's 3D-printed "death pod" lets users die at the press of a button

    Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has created a 3D-printed suicide machine that allows users to administer their own death in a matter of minutes. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 22 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Five designs for a sustainable death

    To celebrate Earth Day, we're looking at ways you can be sustainable beyond the grave. We've picked out five eco-friendly designs for the deceased, including an egg-shaped burial pod and a cremation urn made of sewage water.
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    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 22 April 2019 | Leave a comment
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