oooooh too
Also staggering is the "Skogskyrkogarden," or Woodland Cemetery and Crematorium, by Asplund and Lewerentz. This is a large campus to the south of Stockholm, which is where good architects should go when they die. Unlike other burial grounds, where architects make pointless monumentality in the face of eternity, these guys treat death with a painful humility. The tombs are merely scattered around in a shambling layer beneath the Birch trees. It's powerful stuff.
The Skogskyrkogarden, moreover, is non-denominational--there are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and agnostic burial grounds. Most services take place in the main chapel compound, or in the Woodland Chapel (below)--which is opened by inserting a key in the eye-hole of a metal skull. Over the altar is written in Swedish: "today me...tomorrow you."
* joshua, 7/15/2004 05:54:59 AM
