Waikumete Mausoleum

Practice
Architect Associates

Category
Small Project Architecture

Location
Auckland

Death awaits us all. So, for a man to engage an architect to think about how he may lie in eternity, before death has knocked for him, is a tribute to that architect. Marble speaks volumes about the graveyard, while a mahogany ceiling floating on a narrow slit of light allows the spirit to come and go as it desires. This mausoleum is generous, considered and compositionally calm, just as we all expect death to be.

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