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Lehrer Architects and AyD design mausoleum to extend the life of Hollywood Forever Cemetery
The first phase of a monumental-scale new addition within LAs famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been revealed after a design from Lehrer Architects and Arquitectura y Diseo.Image: courtesy Tim GriffithThe Gower Court Mausoleum stands five stories and 100 feet above the landmark tourist attractions iconic palm grove, offering the deceased space for some 22,500 crypts and the public panoramic views of the city and Hollywood Sign beyond as one of the only true "new landmarks" to come to Los Angeles in recent memory.Image: courtesy Tim GriffithImage: courtesy Tim GriffithAlong with its Brazilian quartzite stone-coveredcrypts, the honeycombed Mausoleum's interior includes more than 30,000 niches for urn storage. They are connected via a circuit of open-air breezeways. Concrete is the primary building material, and the scale of the edifice was broken down thanks to a "vertical topographical landscape" incorporated by the inclusion ofstepped garden setbacks that extend 20 feet a...
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