Bios Incube turns ashes of cremated bodies into trees
The developers of a biodegradable urn that turns the ashes of a dead person into a tree have designed an incubator to aid the growth process (+ slideshow). More
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Lund University students envision Malmö silo transformed into a crematorium
A disused grain silo in Malmö is converted into a crematorium and "vertical cemetery" in this proposal by Swedish architecture students Fredrik Thornström and Karolina Pajnowska. More
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Bereaved families remember Mars astronauts with Franziska Steingen's Soot Home Grieving Set
If an astronaut were to die on their way to the red planet, German designer Franziska Steingen's Soot Home Grieving Set is intended to help their family mourn the loss. More
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Katrina Spade's Urban Death Project proposes a composting facility for dead bodies
Seattle-based designer Katrina Spade has developed a building proposal that offers an eco-friendly alternative to burying or cremating loved ones. More
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Stark concrete funeral home by Salas Architecture + Design tilts up towards the sun
One end of this concrete funeral building in Spain by Salas Architecture + Design angles up towards the sky, funnelling light into a waiting room for mourners (+ movie). More
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Visser & Meijwaard designs zip-up coffins that you would "want to be seen dead in"
Dutch Design Week 2015: Arnhem studio Visser & Meijwaard has designed a range of colourful zip-up coffins to help make death less depressing. More
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Curvaceous concrete crematorium by Plan 01 offers "dignified and serene setting" for mourners
Overlapping cylinders make up this crematorium in northern France, designed by a collective of Parisian architects with walls of ribbed concrete and golden-framed glass (+ slideshow). More
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Egg-shaped urns for cremated ashes rock back and forth without falling over
Wolfgang Natlacen's ovoid funerary urns can rock like a Weeble toy to offer an alternative to the "grey and sad conformism of death" (+ movie). More
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Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More
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Jagged concrete canopy by Ron Shenkin shelters mourners at a cemetery in Israel
The folded concrete canopy of this burial service structure in an Israeli graveyard is supported by slender tree-shaped columns that pay homage to a razed orchard (+ slideshow). More
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L.Art Architectural Office adds white funeral chapel to Hungarian cemetery
A cross made from two steel I-beams frames the entrance to this bright white funeral chapel in Hungary, by local firm L.Art Architectural Office (+ slideshow). More
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Postmodern architecture: San Cataldo Cemetery by Aldo Rossi
Pomo summer: Aldo Rossi's unfinished San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, Italy, is considered one of the first and most important Postmodern buildings. As part of our Postmodernism series we explore how the architect, who denied being part of the controversial movement, designed the seminal building in 1971 while recovering from a car crash (+ slideshow). More
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3RW's memorial for victims of Norwegian massacre opens on Utøya island
A sculpture and landscape intervention on the Norwegian island of Utøya has opened to mark the fourth anniversary of a terrorist attack that killed 69 people (+ slideshow). More
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21 Grams is a sex toy that contains the ashes of a dead partner
Milan 2015: Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a "memory box" containing a dildo with a compartment for storing the ashes of a deceased partner. More
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Mia Cinelli's limb-like weighted blanket is designed to ease feelings of grief
Following the death of a loved one, American artist and designer Mia Cinelli created this "weighted comfort object" that could simulate the feeling of being hugged. More
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Funeral chapel by Tria Studio brings gentle winds through its hollow centre
The breeze flows through the centre of this funeral chapel that Tria Studio has completed at a village cemetery in Slovenia's picturesque Tuhinj Valley (+ slideshow). More
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"Serene" concrete pavilion marks the entrance to a First World War cemetery
This minimal concrete and glass pavilion in Flanders, Belgium, by Govaert & Vanhoutte Architectuurburo houses a visitor centre for the world's largest Commonwealth war cemetery, where 11,956 servicemen of the First World War are buried or commemorated (+ slideshow). More
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Philippe Prost's elliptical concrete memorial marks the centenary of World War I
This concrete oval, designed by Parisian architect Philippe Prost to be "the colour of war", stretches out across the site of one of the world's largest French military cemeteries to commemorate the centenary of the First World War (+ slideshow). More
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Furumori Koichi adds timber latticework to a concrete Japanese temple extension
A wooden latticed ceiling covers a space for storing funerary urns inside this extension to a Japanese temple by Furumori Koichi Architectural Design Studio (+ slideshow). More
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New Pinterest board: architecture for death
Before heading out in your spooky costume, check out our selection of Halloween treats including the best cemetery, mausoleum and crematorium architecture from the pages of Dezeen.
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