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Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery

Also known as Forest cemetery, Skogskyrkogården, Sveriges största kyrkogård

Landscape architect

Gunnar AsplundGunnar Asplund

Year

1915

Style

Functionalism

Type

landscape

Asplund and Lewerentz won the 1915 competition for Stockholm's new southern cemetery and spent the next quarter century turning a gravel-pit pine forest into one of the defining landscapes of twentieth-century architecture. The ensemble…

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  1. 1915

    Original construction

    Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz

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