The Columbarium Competition asked participants to design a columbarium containing 500 niches for urns in the Forest Cemetrery in Riga, Latvia.

Forest Cemetery is still one of the most artistically expressive burial sites in the world, with 69 protected art monuments of national significance registered by the State Cultural Heritage Board alongside memorial sculptures and monuments of the well-known and celebrated individuals remembered there.

Today, the Forest Cemetery remains one of the largest, most historically significant burial sites in Latvia. It is here where the country’s presidents and freedom fighters, soldiers and scientists, martyrs and cultural icons are laid to rest, including the poet Jānis Pliekšāns
and the first Latvian Foreign Minister, Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics.

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Eternal Sigh attempts to translate the pain of witnessing those we love transition to the great beyond into a pallatable architectural language. 


























 










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