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Gradual steps into memorial area, past columbariums
Title:
Woodland Crematorium
Alternate Title:
Skogskyrkogården
View:
Gradual steps into memorial area, past columbariums
Creators:
Erik Gunnar Asplund (Swedish architect, 1885-1940); Sigurd Lewerentz (Swedish landscape architect, 1885-1975)
Date:
cemetery 1915-1918 (creation); crematorium 1935-1940 (creation)
Style/Period:
Constructivist; Modernist; Twentieth century
Location:
site: Stockholm, Stockholm (county), Sweden
Location Note:
Enskededalen district
GPS:
+59.275556+18.099444
Culture:
Swedish
Materials:
marble cladding; concrete
Work Types:
building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures); buildings; funerary buildings; crematories; complexes; cemeteries
Description:
Cemetery architecture played a major part in Asplund’s work. His major work after the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 was the crematorium of the Woodland Cemetery (1935-1940). [He had designed the surrounding cemetery starting in 1917 after winning the design competion of 1915 with Sigurd Lewerentz. The layout of the cemetery is inspired by Greek and Roman Sacred Ways.] The crematorium consists of a terrace of semi-underground technical facilities and, on the ground-level, the large chapel of the Holy Cross and two smaller chapels, of Faith and of Hope. A grand detached portico guards the entrance to the chapel of the Holy Cross. The façades of the chapels are reminiscent of the exhibition buildings’ slabs but have marble cladding. 'The monumental quality', Asplund writes, 'was deliberately reserved for the 'Biblical' landscape'. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Technique:
construction (assembling); gardening
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-AEG-WCR-A10
MDID Identifier:
52551
Archivision Set:
Archivision Addition Module Six
Collection:
Archivision Module 6
Record created:
June 7, 2018
Last modified:
Nov. 1, 2018
Collection Memberships
Collection | Visible |
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Archivision Module 6 | yes |
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