It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. More
The evolution of the human body is one of the major topics of this year's Istanbul Design Biennial, with exhibits ranging from a cyborg skeleton to a brain in a book. Dezeen editor Amy Frearson has selected seven of the most provocative examples. More
Corduroy-textured walls enclose planted courtyards at this funeral home in Spain's Catalonia region by Barcelona-based practices Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes and Plasencia Arquitectura. More
The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents. More
A tomb that was designed but never realised by modernist architect Adolf Loos has been built by British architect Sam Jacob in a historic London cemetery. More
These cylindrical towers were designed by OMA's New York office, lead by Shohei Shigematsu, to echo sounds made by mourners during a performance by artist Taryn Simon (+ slideshow). More
A descendant of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán is outraged after discovering that his great-uncle's cremated remains have been used to create a diamond ring. More
An American artist has turned the remains of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán into a diamond, and is offering to exchange the gem for the architect's professional archive, which is currently housed on the Vitra campus (+ slideshow). More
A US study has listed architects among the people most likely to take their own life. More
An oversized camera lens punctuated by a single bullet hole forms the Broken Landscape memorial dedicated to photographer Gordan Lederer (+ slideshow). More
The bereaved will be able to find the location of their loved ones' graves using GPS in this cemetery without headstones, proposed by Australian firms CHROFI and McGregor Coxall for Sydney (+ slideshow). More
AE Arquitectos has combined exposed concrete, white render and slatted timber for this morgue in Spain's Asturias principality, which features terraces overlooking a harbour (+ slideshow). More
Both charred and red-dyed cedar clad this warehouse by Tokyo studio Key Operation, located at a cemetery in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture where David Chipperfield is also adding new buildings (+ slideshow). More
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
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
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
Seattle-based designer Katrina Spade has developed a building proposal that offers an eco-friendly alternative to burying or cremating loved ones. More
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
Dutch Design Week 2015: Arnhem studio Visser & Meijwaard has designed a range of colourful zip-up coffins to help make death less depressing. More
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
