Lakewood Garden Mausoleum

Built into the hillside to preserve Lakewood Cemetery's pastoral quality, the Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum designed by Joan M. Soranno, FAIA, of HGA Architects and Engineers quietly embraces the landscape while offering a contemplative interior experience. Clad in split-faced gray granite and white mosaic-tile marble, the Mausoleum unfolds horizontally on its site within three rectilinear crypt pods that recall the many family mausoleums throughout the historic cemetery. Natural light and a connection to nature strengthen the relationship between the spiritual and the earth-bound, where form, space and light coalesce around a collective need to remember.

Video created by Peter VonDeLinde, Marc Ofsthun, Pete Sieger, Christian M Korab, Tom Dolan, and Rob McIntosh.

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