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96_Julia Cistelecan: The Mausoleum for The Lost at Sea

Submission #96 | Julia Cistelecan: The Mausoleum for The Lost at Sea — Inspired by Plato’s invented island of Atlantis that fell out of favour with the gods and famously submerged into the Atlantic Ocean, the Mausoleum for the lost at Sea taps into the naval history of Greenwich and investigates the idea of loss and memory.

6_Gaetano Giardano, Emanuela Cammarata and Eleonora Gelardi: Tokyo Vertical Cemetery

Gaetano Giardano, Emanuela Cammarata and Eleonora Gelardi: Tokyo Vertical Cemetery — The way the vertical cemetery presents itself differs greatly from the stereotypical compact texture of Shinjuku, in contrast it presents a totem for the city of Tokyo: a volcano. Detached from the land of the real of the living through a solid base, which accomodates the earthly activities, it becomes ethereal and impalpable thanks to the tensile structure to guard those who have gone on their last journey.