Architecture: Honorable Mention 2015 (amateur)
"Forms assembled in the light" - Zentralfriedhof Vienna by Werner Elmer (Austria)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The title is originated from a quote of the Swiss-French architect, designer and urban planner Le Corbusier: "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." The Zentralfriedhof (German for "Central Cemetery") in Vienna is one of the largest cemeteries in the world, largest by number of interred in Europe.
Number of graves: over 330.000
Number of interments: 3 million
The "Dr. Karl Lueger-Gedächtniskirche" was built from 1908 to 1911.
Architect: Max Hegele.
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