Carla Bertolucci
The Catholic cemetery of St Lawrence in Rotterdam dates from the mid nineteenth century. Designed by H. J. van der Brink as a campa santo, an Italian field of the dead, the cemetery is focused around a central chapel, surrounded by radiating paths. The original neo-Gothic chapel fell victim to subsidence and was replaced in 1963 with a tepee-like structure covered in copper.
This too became unstable and Francine Houben of Mecanoo was commissioned to design a ...