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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The Dezeen guide to contemporary cemeteries
Halloween is traditionally a day for honouring the dead, so today we're revisiting some of the best cemetery, mausoleum and crematorium architecture on Dezeen. More
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Johan Celsing's red-brick crematorium follows the terrain of Asplund's Woodland Cemetery
This red-brick crematorium was designed by Swedish architect Johan Celsing to blend into its setting in the historic Woodland Cemetery outside Stockholm (+ slideshow). More
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Geraldine Spilker combines ashes with resin to create mementoes of the dead
French-German design student Geraldine Spilker has developed a process of binding ashes with resin, creating a tactile object from cremated remains (+ slideshow). More
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"Peaceful and neutral" mortuary completed by Raul Sousa Cardoso and Graça Vaz
Perforated concrete blocks create patterns of light and shadow inside this mortuary in the Portuguese village of Vila Caiz by architects Raul Sousa Cardoso and Graça Vaz (+ slideshow). More
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David Adjaye and Ron Arad reveal defeated National Holocaust Monument design
Here's the design that didn't win: architect David Adjaye and designer Ron Arad have revealed their shortlisted entry for Canada's National Holocaust Monument competition, which was beaten by a star-shaped design from Daniel Libeskind (+ movie). More
