KAAN Architecten, Crematorium Heimolen, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 2013
So this story will not finish with some tomb to be visited in pious memory. For the smoke that rises from crematoria obeys physical laws like any other: the particles come together and disperse according to the wind, which propels them. The only pilgrimage, dear reader, would be to look sadly at a stormy sky now and then.
Andre Schwartz-Bart, "On Memory," c. 1980 (via young)
Léon Azéma, Max Edrei and Jacques Hardy, Douaumont Ossuary, Verdun, France, c. 1923-32
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Avraham Miletski, Kyiv Crematorium, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1968 (via archindex)
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Fumihiko Maki, Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium, Nakatsu, Japan, 1997 (via subtilitas)