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  • 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
  • Egg-shaped burial pod aims to "change our approach to death"

    Designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel have created Capsula Mundi, an egg-shaped pod for the deceased that offers an alternative to traditional burial methods. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 31 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Shaina Garfield redesigns death with sustainable coffin

    New York designer Shaina Garfield has created an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body so that it decomposes quickly and fertilises the surrounding soil. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 18 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Crematorium Siesegem by Kaan Architecten rejects "pompous monumentalism"

    An austere material palette of concrete and grey marble helped Kaan Architecten create a series of calming and contemplative spaces inside this crematorium in Belgium. More

    Natasha Levy | 22 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Maria Tyakina designs cremation urns to suit the contemporary home

    Dutch designer Maria Tyakina has reimagined the traditional cremation urn as a futuristic domed vessel, in a bid to better suit the modern-day home. More

    Natashah Hitti | 19 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Grenfell Tower reimagined as a black concrete-covered memorial

    London-based architecture studio JAA has revealed a proposal to encase the burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower in a sarcophagus of black concrete as a memorial to the victims of the fire. More

    India Block | 8 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • David Chipperfield Architects completes pink visitor centre and chapel at Inagawa Cemetery

    A pink pigmented concrete building designed by David Chipperfield's studio for a cemetery in the Japanese town of Inagawa has been captured in photographs by Edmund Sumner. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 18 July 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Sam Coulton designs environmentally friendly cemetery that would slowly dye London blue

    Bartlett School of Architecture student Sam Coulton has designed a concept for a sustainable alternative to cremation to help Londoners confront death. More

    India Block | 13 July 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Neri Oxman's new death masks contain pigment-producing microorganisms

    Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter Group at MIT have expanded their collection of 3D-printed death masks with designs that cultivate new life after death. More

    Ali Morris | 26 April 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Gabled tombs sit within serene courtyards at Italian cemetery

    Mirco Simonato Architetto has added white-walled courtyards and simple gabled tombs to a cemetery in Megliadino San Vitale, northern Italy. More

    India Block | 10 April 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Studio Nienke Hoogvliet designs cremation urn using plastic derived from wastewater

    Studio Nienke Hoogvliet has harnessed a method of transforming wastewater into bioplastic, and used it to create a sustainable cremation urn. More

    Miranda Fitzgerald | 10 December 2017 | 1 comment
  • Frank Kolkman creates death simulation machine using virtual reality

    To tackle "death anxiety" among terminally ill hospital patients, designer Frank Kolkman has created a device that simulates a near-death experience using virtual reality. More

    Trudie Carter | 23 November 2017 | 3 comments
  • Waugh Thistleton completes cemetery buildings with rammed-earth walls

    Waugh Thistleton has added a pair of new prayer halls to a Jewish cemetery in the English county of Hertfordshire, which feature rammed-earth walls constructed using soil taken from the site. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 22 November 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Fujita Keisuke uses suicide tweets to explore the effects of digital communication

    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Fujita Keisuke has made an installation that uses real-time tweets from people expressing suicidal thoughts to activate a motor-powered needle that scratches away at a monolithic block of carbon. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 19 November 2017 | 2 comments
  • Deep-green tiles and geometric entrances create distinctive toilets for Portuguese graveyard

    Portuguese architecture studio M2 Senos has completed a new public toilet for a cemetery in the country's Ílhavo municipality, taking the graveyard's verdant grounds and marble headstones as cues for the design.  More

    Natasha Levy | 31 October 2017 | 9 comments
  • Trio of broken arches house ossuaries in northern Italian cemetery

    CN10 Architetti has built a trio of white concrete and marble funerary arches with space to host ossuaries and cinerary urns for a cemetery in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. More

    Lizzie Fison | 13 May 2017 | 9 comments
  • Aleksander Skworz' Urn for Living can be used as a fruit bowl before you die

    An Academy of Fine Arts Poznań graduate has designed a cremation urn that can be purchased before your death and used as homeware, serving as a reminder to live life to the full. More

    Lizzie Crook | 5 March 2017 | 7 comments
  • Lisa Merk's tactile mini urns give mourners one-on-one time to say goodbye

    Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. More

    Jessica Jones | 1 March 2017 | 5 comments
  • "However brutal, the Yolocaust website gave meaning to Berlin's Holocaust memorial"

    By juxtaposing selfies taken by visitors to Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial with archive photos from concentration camps, artist Shahak Shapira has revealed why design that shames is important, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More

    Owen Hatherley | 2 February 2017 | 9 comments
  • Neri Oxman's Lazarus death masks visualise the wearer's last breath

    Neri Oxman and the MIT Mediated Matter group have unveiled their latest collection of 3D-printed death masks, designed to contain the wearer's last breath. More

    Alice Morby | 12 December 2016 | 11 comments
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